1975: Are PREFAB Houses FABULOUS? | Nationwide | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

David Taylor reports from Medway, where the local council is planning to erect 63 prefab houses on a clearance site.

Prefabricated houses enjoy many benefits over their on-site, brick and mortar equivalents - they can be built in a day and in use within a week. With much of the UK in the midst of a severe housing shortage, you would think that prefab houses were an ideal solution, but prefabs have something of an image problem in Britain - likely rooted in their association with post-war austerity. Is this reputation fair, or does it smack of snobbery?

For the residents of Excalibur Estate - an estate of prefab houses in South London - prefabs are the ideal living place.

Originally broadcast 24 January, 1975.





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