Theresa May’s housing boom will spark explosion in prefab homes to help Brits get on property ladder
Prefabs can be erected in just 24 hours and could look no different to brick buildings, despite their bad reputation
THERESA MAY’s housing revolution will pull the trigger on an explosion in ‘flat-pack’ homes across the UK.
The Government will commit to reserving developments for prefabs – after being convinced the quick and easy units are critical to allowing Brits to take their first steps onto the property ladder.
The prefabs of the post-war era in the 1940s were bywords for poor quality.
But huge technological improvements mean modern day units can be erected in as little as 24 hours and finished to look no different to brick buildings.
Under the Government plans, as many as 100,000 units could go up by the end of the decade.
Legal & General’s Leeds factory is expected to churn out 3,000 pre-fab laminated timber homes each year – using 10 production lanes laid out over an area the size of seven football pitches.