Brighton | Season 1 Episode 3 | Full Episode | Grand Designs UK
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2019
- Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families, including ex-travellers and single parents, who are building both their own and each others homes.
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I love Kevin's voice and style in his home building explanations. The narration makes the entire episode just that much more pleasurable.
I agree. He's fun!
Thanks to the person who gave links to the 2012 visit that answered the 'nay sayers' - all the families still living there - great stories about how well the individuals and the community had thrived. How good it has been for the children. So it was a great struggle for the 2 plus years of the build, but they created something great for mutual benefit.
THIS should be made into a film
Love that you brought this show to youtube. Sadly I wish to see all seasons but Netflix only has a few.
If you download the dailymotion app they have episodes there.
Watch on you tube
I think that building one's own home gives them a rarely found respect for what they have. People take for granted that which is handed to them, or built by someone else. When it is your own sweat and blood going into the construction of something so monumental, you take pride in the outcome and appreciation in maintaining it. I also think that each property should be a rent with an option to buy. Thank you for sharing.
Unfortunately, they don't own anything. They can only rent them after all that "sweat and blood". Seems a bit unfair in the end.
This is such an inspiring program! Feel like I have learned so much about building. Hope it continues on forever!
This was made on approximately 2002. The program is still going!
Watch “the block” on tubi. It’s great
Kevin makes the show so good 💯
What a PROJECT!!!!!! 👀💪💚
Habitat for Humanity is Better because in the end, they own their own house- AND they do one house at a time so it isn't so overwhelming. The house gets finished and the family moves in. So many hours are required on other builds, then they get to build their own house. Homeownership has pride and they take better care of their property.
Love this idea...and I think the houses should convey to the families that build them. Decorating with nature...I have always done..well done..2nd chances..its a beautiful thing ❤
Brilliant
WE need more of this All housing association's need this
Wow! The original West Pier in Brighton before the fire that destroyed it! 🥺
I'm shocked that the presenter doesn't condemn this project at any point, for keeping the families in dire poverty, and still not providing them with secure housing!! I'm all for people taking ownership of things, and not being given a handout, but forcing them to leave full-time jobs, or sell their vehicles in order to "benefit" from building a house they still won't own and can be evicted from is just wrong!
Does anyone know if this project is still running? Was it more successful than I'm imagining?
I did wonder myself but found out:
1) Rent is 30% discounted
2) Though it's not technically 'owned,' there are named heirs to the renters
3) The housing association pays a capital devt lumpsum if a tenant decides to move out. Nobody has taken that offer yet.
4) This community was mainly made up of travellers.
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It's been very successful.
@@gracieamazing2076 thank you for taking the trouble to find all of that out! I'm still not sure how I feel about this project regarding the building/working conditions, but I'm happy that it has been a success thus far.
@@gracieamazing2076 PS We don't have the term "traveller" where I live - is it a homeless/unemployed person? Or people who deliberately choose a transient lifestyle?
@@beejayvandegriendt3632 Gypsies
@@beejayvandegriendt3632 its people who choose to live on the road. Less common these days but it was quite big in the 80s and 90s. They shaped the electronic music scene pretty massively.
This sounds similar to Habitat For Humanity here in the U.S. My problem with this is, I'm not about to put in sweat equity of 30 hours a week to build a home I'm not going to own but rent. The difference with Habitat For Humanity is after living in the home for I think 5 years the occupant then becomes the home owner. Still, it is a good idea to keep families from being homeless.
Everyone was still renting when Kevin visited again in 2012 www.dailymotion.com/video/xxrtid and there was no mention of purchasing the homes either.
@@jody024 nice one for that, was interesting to see it 12 years on. Cheers
@@piphawkins9129 Yeah, but i did wonder how many of them stayed because they wanted to and how many of them just cant afford to make the next step on the housing market.
@@jody024 Thanks for posting this--it was great to see how things had turned out.
31:30 The perfect metaphor Kevin👍 🔨
Great story, and a model that could be employed in many places. The feeling of ownership is palpable, even if they don't own the properties. I think schemes like this could be great for young people who look at home ownership as an impossibility today. I say young people because it obviously takes a great deal of energy. On the other hand, though I'm much older and mightn't be up for toting lumber, I could paint interiors faster and better than most!
Feeling of ownership don't count when the landlords decide to sell
Inspirant !
Inspiring?
I guess the wind doesn't blow very hard in Brighton.
My only suggestion is a follow up bit of info about the houses, the properties, if the people from the show are still there, etc. Other than that, terrific show. Thanks!
are the timbers that sit on the cement pads, pressure treated to prevent rot? or are they going to be covered with something? maybe I will get my answer when I see more of the vid.
I am curious how they have held up- The Roofs and the fiber board- plus the timber piers resting on the cement pads.
This build reminds me of an Amish barn raising!
I would love to know where they are 24years later? I do live in a timber house in Sweden and I love it, although its 200sqm rather than 60sqm its awesome. New age travellers from the 90s were well educated and I hope they went on to well paid jobs.
🎉🎉🎉
I was so relieved to see that installation being sprayed in. I was wondering what they do in flimsy wooden houses so near the sea and the elements. And it was natural material too being paper. I don't know about the toxicity of the fire retardant.
As an insulator for over 30 years, this product is not very good. It tends to sag and drop down over the years and if used in roof spaces it blows into the middle of the roof from the eves (you have to have an airflow in your roof to stop condensation build up, so never block the vents over the wall plates of your roof), and when you open the loft access it makes a hell of a mess in your house. Stick to mineral wool like fiberglass and rockwool for external walls of timber frame houses and loft spaces. Also I now see that people are using kingspan in internal walls, this is useless as a sound barrier, again use rockwool for the best sound protection and fire protection between party walls and internal walls. Kingspan should only be used in warm roof spaces or as an extra layer of insulation covering the inside of external walls before plasterboard is fitted.
Is Season 16 Episode 1 the house of the NZ pilot available on UA-cam? Thks Denise from South Africa
Does anyone know where I can access revisited for this episode
enable subtitle please
Vordan gjør de det med kloakk og vannrør?
Vordan går det her nå i 2021?
Ever been back? I’m curious how the community is doing
I have not seen a shred of plumbing. How to get unfreezable pipes into those places?
There was some in the floorspace and then it had the insulation pumped around it.
This program is not a sure thing, you can put all your time and energy into the building-site, you can lose your home if you cant keep your hours. Catch 22 system, not beneficial to them, only for the housing authority.
Have there been any visits back to these original houses. It would be i teresting to see how they ha e changed
Here you are www.dailymotion.com/video/xxrtid
Here you are: www.dailymotion.com/video/xxrtid
@@hnbee7573 Thank you. So inspiring. This must be my favourite episode of the whole show.
@@hnbee7573 Thank you for the link. Part II is as good as Part I.
@@hnbee7573 Thank you so much for the link! What wonderful outcomes!
I don't get how the building isn't fastened to a foundation. A storm could blow it away.
All still standing many years later.
That’s how they built the sugar plantation workers house in Hawaii
I felt sorry for the participants in this housing scheme as it seems like a terrible deal: working 30 hours a week on the project means you can't also have a regular full-time job so where are you supposed to live in the 2 years or so during the construction process? I was alarmed for the man who had fallen behind on his work allocation and was at risk of being thrown out with nothing to show for the considerable effort he had put in. I have to wonder if they would have been better off working 30 hours per week and getting paid for it and using that for rent although I recognize that for the long-term unemployed, finding any job can be almost impossible because employers make judgements aobut being unemployed for so long and often don't consider their applications seriously. I see in another comment that the project is revisited in 2012 and they did make a success of it but it seems like a desperate last roll of the dice for there people.
Part of the idea of this scheme is to give the participants a skill that they can use to gain employment in the future. So it is like a 2 year apprenticeship.
@@jonathanbennetts2632 Yes, thank you for your response. There is a video of Kevin McCloud speaking in Sydney (ua-cam.com/video/s7S-qFiOp-k/v-deo.html) that I saw after writing the abovee where he mentions going back there 14 years later and finding it was a tremendous success for the participants; the experience of shared construction laid the basis for a very close community.
@@petervarley3078 It was a success yes. But because they used softwood they are constantly repairing these houses. The design was supposed to use green oak frames but they were deemed to expensive. In reality if they had used the green oak they would have saved money in the long term because maintaining the houses has cost more money. Also Kevin is not the greatest designer. I have worked on a couple of his companies projects in the UK and his designs and impractical build methods have caused some building contractors to get close to going bankrupted. He is not the greatest designer of houses but he is a good reality TV host.
those hammer skills are really frustrating to look at
Yes they are renting but in time it becomes theirs
Nope, they just continue renting. It is 1/3 less than other rentals but that is it.
Hardly any power tools, was England that far behind the times back then? It all comes down to time and efficiency, I mean hand saws and hammers, yeah you need a hammer now and then but for everything.
I love this show, but I always had a hard time watching Kevin McCloud being an rude a*hole when he doesn't like the design, building methodology, materials or the homeowners. 😘
My God he is so condescending and self-entitled. Thank God he grew up in later seasons.
Actually he's always full of himself, rude and low-key a condescending a*hole; when he doesn't quite like the unorthodox way of building or the homeowners aren't the typical posh straight couple with tons of cash. That without mentioning his total failure of "Grand Design" that still have tons of issues, like investors not been paid for, homeowners dealing with a horrible unhabitable houses and the bankruptcy of the company he found to building it.
lol these are some of the most irritating regional English accents and sad hairstyles. I wonder if we will look and sound as ridiculous to future generations in 20 years. Also, what an insane and irresponsible idea to work 30 hours a week on building a house while also raising a family. This is only the kind of thing that childless people should do. So many people are such irresponsible parents and children are so damaged by having idiots for parents.
What a horrible comment! Did you watch the follow up show linked above? None of the children looked damaged in the slightest... in fact, they were proud of their hard-working parents and what they had achieved.
well you sound ridiculous right now so no need to wait 20 years.
The insane part is that these people were required to work 30hrs week, (something that would obviously prevent them from having any kind of a regular job) for roughly 2 yrs, on houses that they not only have no option of owning (consigning them to forever renting a house that took them two years to build) and they only get rent reduced by 1/3. WTF? I'm surprised that the 'owners' found anyone willing to take them up on their scheme. I mean who benefitted the most? The owners despite investing the initial money for the site & the building materials will continue to see a return on their investment through rent money and the increasing value of the property. They pretty much got these houses built basically for 'free' which they will continue to collect rent on forever. While the 'renters' themselves spent two years of their lives without being able to do anything else like hold down a job (yet they still had to pay for a roof over their heads somewhere and also put food in their mouths and clothes on their kids during that time) and they will have to continue to pay rent as long as they choose to live there. Sure, it's reduced by 1/3 rent, but this doesn't really seem like a great deal for the 'renters' so much as it does a really sweet deal for the 'owners'.
After watching the revisits it's interesting to note that all of the original 'renters' are still living there and none of them have moved on.
The grown children also appear to have turned out exactly the opposite of what you imagined, not damaged. And apparently, the parents themselves all appear to have stabilized their lives and become productive members of society. Interesting.
It's obvious you don't have children. Small children are incredibly resilient and it's far more important for them to have a routine, a stable lifestyle, and loving/caring parents who look after their wellbeing than anything else. I'm not saying that a lifetime or even an extended time of idiotic/irresponsible parents and/or emotional/physical abuse wouldn't damage a child,- it absolutely does - but I am saying that this situation is not even remotely comparable.
Blokes walking round in skin tight jeans with tinsel in their manicured beards. Yeah people are going to look back on today and laugh.
how would watching your parents building you a lovely home 'damage' a child...????