Lorcan Sirr

Yeah.

Morning, David.

Yeah.

So what I'm keen to look at, really, when this idea came from lobbyists who suggested it could provide up to 350,000 homes in the country.

And the politicians seem to jump on it fairly quickly.

And I thought to myself, they're jumping on an idea very quickly.

Building houses is not just a question of kind of putting down modular homes and walking away.

There's all sorts of kind of technical issues.

There's legal issues.

there's social issues, there's planning issues, and nobody seemed to be kind of looking at them.

So I went on and I kind of picked the idea apart just under different headings to see what the issues are.

So the idea here is to quote the minister to remove bureaucracy and red tape, but I reckon, you know, that it'll end up kind of creating more bureaucracy and red tape.

So there was very little research done around building regulations, particularly, say, for access for disabled people or ventilation regulations.

Fire safety, if you think about back gardens and terraced houses, how fire brigades are supposed to get to that and how people are supposed to escape if there's a fire.

Infrastructure, sewage and water capacity, we're already at 99% in large urban areas.

And then things like parking and overlooking the parking in particular, David, I think could be very much a point of contention.

And all these things like the title, the mortgage provider, I mean, does the mortgage provider have an issue with you adding on to the, you know, an extra structure in your back garden?

And if the structure is not properly built, if you go to sell the house, that could create a planning issue, which means the mortgage provider is then involved because there's a risk there.

But also there's the idea that, you know, these can be plonked up really.

And I know the government say that, you know, people will have to notify the local authority.