AFTER-THE-WAR HOUSES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16049, 6 February 1918, Page 3

AFTER-THE-WAR HOUSES.

EXPERTS TO SEEK WOMEN’S ADVICE. The “new house” after the war, if designed on the lines recommended in an interim report by the Technical. Conference set up by the National Housing and Tcwn Planning Council, should be a great improvement on that which exists to-day, states the Daily News. The conference is satisfied that if the 300,000 now houses suggested are erected in the year-after the war the building trade will be greatly taxed, and they say it will be necessary for the occupants to pay higher -rents. They recommend that the houses should ho broad rather than deep, in order to give ample, light, that three bedrooms and a parlour should be provided, and that each house should have a bath, with provision for hot water supply. They also recommend that women should he called in to give assistance in regard to details' of interior construction, such as stairs, cupboards, larders, and storage accommodation. Schemes must not he carried into effect under the old, conditions of layout. The number of houses per acre in urban schemes should not exceed ten and. in rural planning gardens of nob less than one-edghth of an acre should be provided.. "While members of the conference are opposed to the standardisation of houses, they are convinced that the possibilities of the standardisation of component parts are very great.