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INTERVIEW: As he gears up for the annual Grand Designs Live event, the Channel 4 stalwart speaks to Adam White about Margaret Thatcher, Rachel Reeves and Britain’s ‘shameful and appalling’ housing standards, his eagerness to keep his private life private, and how he wishes people didn’t fancy him

It is a place where a Disney-ish castle, complete with turrets, sits near a scaly ‘pangolin’ house. But is Graven Hill now straying from the DIY vision that made its anarchic jumble of styles so mesmerising?

‘We’ve created something beautiful in the eye of the storm,’ said Kara, who now has her dream home

The living legend takes on the housing system as Grand Designs Live celebrates 25 years...

The presenter said he couldn’t have pulled it off himself

Exclusive: ‘It going to be so much easier’

The owner admits the build, which featured seemingly levitating floors, was ‘more complex’ than anticipated

The show first aired in 1999

Celebrating the grandest and greenest of house designs. Plus: who will get the gongs at The National Television Awards? Here’s what to watch this evening

Grand Designs: 25 Years And Counting will revisit some of the most memorable builds - the fabulous, the outlandish and the disasters!

Give us another 50 years of this strangely moving, often harebrained show. After watching this celebratory episode, it’s hard not to love Kevin McCloud’s series seven times more than you already do