On 10 December, Hammersmith & Fulham Council cabinet will decide on a plans to build prefabricated homes on tight urban spaces in the borough. The first allocated site of already an identified potential 100, is Brook Green – just around the corner from Hammersmith Station. Here the council wants to build twelve new homes to reduce the acute housing shortage in the area, especially for middle market families. The model, designed by the council’s own housing company, uses a highly flexible model so that the rooms can be changed in size once built to allow for changing family structures and ages. One home in the borough has already been built in this way – the three-bedroom ‘Rational House’ at Biscay Road in Hammersmith [pictured]. It took 11 days to put up last year.

A proportion of the new homes Hammersmith & Fulham plans to build will be sold at a discounted market rate. Read a fuller article at: Inside Housing.