TWO-UNIT FLATS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 394, 30 March 1937, Page 5

TWO-UNIT FLATS.

CHILDLESS COUPLES. Experiments in Dunedin. Press Association —Copyright. Wellington, March 30. The Housing Department is making an experiment in Dunedin in the building of two-unit or semi-detached dwellings cn one floor, suitable for married people without children. It is intended to introduce this type in future contracts at other centres, but Dunedin is being made the location of the first trial of this system, which is expected to provide a very cheap but comfortable dwelling similar to a flat, but surrounded by garden. In the Liberton Settlement, where 38 houses are to be built under contracts which close on April. 13, two sections are being utilised, and the two-unit design built in such a position that the dividing wall between the two flats is on the joint boundary. It will be of brick, with a cavity, and should be moderately sound-proof. Each flat will have a normal-sized section. The saving in the design will be in the central dividing wall, the common roof and the central chimney. The building will be of brick veneer, involving a wooden frame with outer wails of brick. One flat will contain a living-room 16ft. by 15ft. 6in„ a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and laundry. The adjoining flat has all these rooms, plus a sunroom on an angle off the living-room.