Seems particularly impressive that the energy bills were only £46 per month. I wonder how that was achieved, particularly with nothing underneath the homes. Can energy bills that low be achieved in other small homes if heat pumps and solar panels are installed?
This scheme looks really good, although it’s depressing to imagine these being sold to private landlords in a few decades’ time.
It would be good to get some experiences of people living in these or housing associations that have bought them. I’ve seen the company behind these mentioned a lot of the last 5/6 years but never anything about them after delivery.
I’m a little sceptical that only that positives from the developer are being shown. Almost every housing innovation has problems, many that don’t show up straight away.
How long before that becomes the norm for ~~younger people~~ everyone, because they are priced out the market? Worrying.
Fucking stop voting in conservatives.
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Free cricket sandwich and WEF hoodie on registration.
Actually shoot me in the face.
It’s the sort of housing that should be a right as an emergency fall-back and essentially given out to end homelessness. £80 a week before bills implies you’d still need to get a job and frankly you shouldn’t have to work at all to be able to live like this. It should be the absolute bottom rung of the housing ladder for everyone except actual hermits off living in caves (voluntarily).
Great… now we can live like those boxes of crickets in the pet shops!
Eat the bugs
WEF cant wait until this is all we can rent
Yes babe I do have my own home 😉!
Bit of a bachelor in my pod I am!
These actually look quite nice at the price! I found some more photos [here](https://www.zedpods.com/our-homes), but I don’t know if they are always so big.
I used to pay £880 a month to live somewhere smaller and far shitter!
Single me would have loved this… now married with kids not so much
They are changing the entire landscape of the country to gain more control and power but they will fail miserably.
Something like this would be a godsend for me. These look perfect for a single person. Not any more than that though. I essentially grew up in a khrushchyovka and these are smaller than that. So you couldn’t have a family in one.
Reminds me of monty python’s skit about living in a shoe box.
I would give my right arm for one of these
Bachelor Pod
I dont wanna live in a pod
Are these developers public? I want to invest in these.
The older I get, the better I understand why people left Britain for the New World
You will be happy
£80 a week? A few years ago that was how much our mortgage was for a three-bedroom house just outside Leeds city centre!
Fantastic scheme that I hope gets rolled out on a much larger scale to alleviate the affordable housing crisis, not only in Bristol but across the whole damn country.
The comments on this article though are a total shitshow, that make me question if Bristol Post readers actually are this fickle.
Free bags of bugs to eat hopefully, get in the pod
Ahh in communist UK no-one can hear you scream.
Get the poors in the barn – tory policy
There’s a big place in Brighton where they turned containers into a ready player one-esque stacks village. It was only meant to be temporary for a few years while the council/land owner decided what was going on the land.
No surprises that it’s still there. Even though it’s absolutely crippling to hear in the winter (and this was back then!)
They’re the size of my £1200 a month apartment. Fuck.
What could possibly go wrong by grouping large quantities of poor, desperate people together in shelters far below the normal national living standards?
It looked interesting but fuck me that website is abysmal.
Why are all local news sites just a cess pool of pop ups, adds and nonsense
What’s next insects and cockroach milk being used for school meals
The images remind of the flats you see in anime, they seem cozy enough
They look very similar to the housing you see in Japan for low rent.
I want to live in the pod and eat the bugs
genuinely please
I will not live in the pod. I will not eat the bug
To be honest it probably wouldn’t be that bad
Lots of disadvantages but I bet there would be a good sense of community in places like this and it’s obviously a lot cheaper
Typical r/unitedkingdom any excuse for negative comments. I would have loved an option like this.
Looks decent for single people tbh. Don’t need a massive gaff and better than paying £1k + a month in rent
Have you ever seen the Hong Kong ‘coffin apartments’? That’s the endgame here.
It could be me being officially broken, but I’ll accept pod life – christ how much to buy?
the return of the cothold?
good luck fixing the brithrate and divorce figures with this solution. but i guess having people buy/rent their own hostel accommodation works for the tories.
What a great idea and they look lovely, bit narrow. but much better than a room in a shared house.
We need a variety of homes and it’s good to see something different and affordable.
How long before this becomes standard housing, then are brought up by landlords and rented back at the same rates as other housing types?
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Seems particularly impressive that the energy bills were only £46 per month. I wonder how that was achieved, particularly with nothing underneath the homes. Can energy bills that low be achieved in other small homes if heat pumps and solar panels are installed?
This scheme looks really good, although it’s depressing to imagine these being sold to private landlords in a few decades’ time.
Here is a link to the pictures: https://www.zedpods.com/our-homes
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-cKvDLDTU
You will live in a pod.
It would be good to get some experiences of people living in these or housing associations that have bought them. I’ve seen the company behind these mentioned a lot of the last 5/6 years but never anything about them after delivery.
I’m a little sceptical that only that positives from the developer are being shown. Almost every housing innovation has problems, many that don’t show up straight away.
How long before that becomes the norm for ~~younger people~~ everyone, because they are priced out the market? Worrying.
Fucking stop voting in conservatives.
[deleted]
Free cricket sandwich and WEF hoodie on registration.
Actually shoot me in the face.
It’s the sort of housing that should be a right as an emergency fall-back and essentially given out to end homelessness. £80 a week before bills implies you’d still need to get a job and frankly you shouldn’t have to work at all to be able to live like this. It should be the absolute bottom rung of the housing ladder for everyone except actual hermits off living in caves (voluntarily).
Great… now we can live like those boxes of crickets in the pet shops!
Eat the bugs
WEF cant wait until this is all we can rent
Yes babe I do have my own home 😉!
Bit of a bachelor in my pod I am!
These actually look quite nice at the price! I found some more photos [here](https://www.zedpods.com/our-homes), but I don’t know if they are always so big.
I used to pay £880 a month to live somewhere smaller and far shitter!
Single me would have loved this… now married with kids not so much
They are changing the entire landscape of the country to gain more control and power but they will fail miserably.
Something like this would be a godsend for me. These look perfect for a single person. Not any more than that though. I essentially grew up in a khrushchyovka and these are smaller than that. So you couldn’t have a family in one.
Reminds me of monty python’s skit about living in a shoe box.
I would give my right arm for one of these
Bachelor Pod
I dont wanna live in a pod
Are these developers public? I want to invest in these.
The older I get, the better I understand why people left Britain for the New World
You will be happy
£80 a week? A few years ago that was how much our mortgage was for a three-bedroom house just outside Leeds city centre!
Fantastic scheme that I hope gets rolled out on a much larger scale to alleviate the affordable housing crisis, not only in Bristol but across the whole damn country.
The comments on this article though are a total shitshow, that make me question if Bristol Post readers actually are this fickle.
Free bags of bugs to eat hopefully, get in the pod
Ahh in communist UK no-one can hear you scream.
Get the poors in the barn – tory policy
There’s a big place in Brighton where they turned containers into a ready player one-esque stacks village. It was only meant to be temporary for a few years while the council/land owner decided what was going on the land.
No surprises that it’s still there. Even though it’s absolutely crippling to hear in the winter (and this was back then!)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/gq8jyq/i-spent-the-night-in-brightons-homeless-shipping-container-housing-project
They’re the size of my £1200 a month apartment. Fuck.
What could possibly go wrong by grouping large quantities of poor, desperate people together in shelters far below the normal national living standards?
It looked interesting but fuck me that website is abysmal.
Why are all local news sites just a cess pool of pop ups, adds and nonsense
What’s next insects and cockroach milk being used for school meals
The images remind of the flats you see in anime, they seem cozy enough
They look very similar to the housing you see in Japan for low rent.
I want to live in the pod and eat the bugs
genuinely please
I will not live in the pod. I will not eat the bug
To be honest it probably wouldn’t be that bad
Lots of disadvantages but I bet there would be a good sense of community in places like this and it’s obviously a lot cheaper
Typical r/unitedkingdom any excuse for negative comments. I would have loved an option like this.
Looks decent for single people tbh. Don’t need a massive gaff and better than paying £1k + a month in rent
Have you ever seen the Hong Kong ‘coffin apartments’? That’s the endgame here.
It could be me being officially broken, but I’ll accept pod life – christ how much to buy?
the return of the cothold?
good luck fixing the brithrate and divorce figures with this solution. but i guess having people buy/rent their own hostel accommodation works for the tories.
What a great idea and they look lovely, bit narrow. but much better than a room in a shared house.
We need a variety of homes and it’s good to see something different and affordable.
How long before this becomes standard housing, then are brought up by landlords and rented back at the same rates as other housing types?