WOODEN HOUSES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 69, 15 December 1919, Page 15

WOODEN HOUSES

EEITAIN FOLLOWS AMERICAN EXAMPLE. It has been officially stated that the British Ministry of Health has under consideration a scheme under which it will bo permissible* to build 'nouses of wood. A new set of regulations is being prepared which will over-ride local by-laws regarding construction, and, they v;ill bo issued soon. They will allow a greater choice of building material?, and tend to reduce the cost of construction as well as permit of quicker building'. They will also leave the way clear for the adoption of tho wooden or standard frame typo of house as used in America. This has been barred hitherto by local by-laws. Experts declare that for or JMOO wooden cottages can bo built tlmt will bo good for at least fiftv years, and they would afford much tho same accommodation as new dwellings of brick or stone, for which at least .££oo would bo charged to-day. Houses erected on the American (rame-work plan could b 1 ? completed within about thirty days—a factor of r?al importance. Soin?. 00,000 out of the 100,000 houses- promised by Dr. Addison's Department last May are still in tho paper-plan stage, and, in face of the speed with which the wooden dwellings could provided, it is liop-:l that a good deal of the leeway will now lie made up before the wor.-t of the winter.