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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe and Kalyeena Makortoff

Fast-build modular homes – an answer to the UK housing crisis?

Modular home production lines at Legal & General’s factory near Leeds
Modular home production lines at Legal & General’s factory near Leeds, Yorkshire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Resembling a giant toymaker’s workshop, 16 identical wooden boxes that stand 2.6 metres tall are lined up in a row in a factory near Leeds.

Each year the factory manufactures hundreds of apartments and houses, with one to three bedrooms, which leave the premises on lorries fully kitted out. The factory is run by one of Britain’s biggest insurance and pension firms, Legal & General, and is one of the main modular housing makers in the country.

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