A New Build House in the UK 

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Motorway behind that ten foot high rear fence ??

Average house price in Barrowford is £160,000... and £160k is only going to get you 50% ownership of a semi-detached here? 🤔

The sense of arrival on this one is ironically better than the more expensive one on the last video.

It's quite odd that they gave an option to re-locate the kitchen in an affordable design. It will push up the price and deliver no value because whether you choose option A or option B, whether you care about it or just flip a coin, you're paying extra to have the option and you're paying for wiring and pipes you won't use. The dressing room is a weird one too. If we're going again for affordability, a dressing room is a non-essential luxury. I wonder if the company is so used to building "luxury" properties that even when the brief was an affordable family home, they couldn't help but pad the bottom line with unnecessary features.

I believe pushing the window to the outer leaf helps reduce potential thermal bridging between the frame and inner leaf. The thermal envelope is now located along the external skin rather than stepping in where the window is located. At least, that’s my understanding of it!

Its ok apart from the dressing room. Would definitely have the kitchen at the back

How much solar is on the roof? having smaller bills makes a house more affordable.

That small space where the rain collects and drips off the building is enough to stop it going into the house. It'll be fine for the first few years but in 10-20 years the seal will degrade and there will be an ingress of water causing damp.problems so its a bad design.

Looks like a monopoly house but most UK houses saw a massive decline in quality after Georgian and Victorian period, aside for a limited number of bespoke homes. I doubt it's a great deal at that price (depending on location) and we know grouping affordable housing together creates long term social problems. Affordable homes need to be indistinguishable from higher quality architecture and distributed.

Good for £150k but wait, you only own half of it. No thanks.