Exhibition stand for Taylor Woodrow, for the display of low-cost industrialised housing projects at the Industrialised Buildings Systems and Co. exhibition, held at Crystal Palace, London.

HOUSING AND BUILDING POLICIES


I must say that there are certain things that could be done more energetically to limit this most steep rise in housing costs. The question of industrialised building methods has been mentioned, and the G.L.C. has done a great deal in this respect. The G.L.C. is going into industrialised building on a large scale, and it is already beginning to derive some financial benefit from it. At the beginning of the National Building Agency's existence it was very difficult to get any hard and fast figures in relation to what the contractors expected industrialised systems to do as regards the cost of an individual house. But now we are beginning to show results. I understand that the houses that are now being built for the Greater London Council—three-bedroom houses of very nice design which I saw at the I.B.S.A.C. Exhibition the other day—are costing £2,250 which I believe is less than the average tender price for a three-bedroom house constructed by conventional methods.



Mr Eric Lubbock 

House of Commons — May 19, 1966

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