At the end of the Second World War Britain had a lot of problems to deal with. One of the biggest and most urgent problems that needed to be solved was replacing all of the homes that had been destroyed during the war. With very little money, and lots of people left without a permanent home of their own, the solution needed to be cheap and quick.
The prefab home was seen as the solution to this – temporary homes that could be quickly assembled and with the intention of lasting no longer than ten years, they enabled people to have homes of their own and were a real hit.
They had modern designs and for many, they were seen as an improvement on their previous home, so many people became attached to them, and this has meant that there are still some prefabs around today that people are happily living in.
One of the problems however with prefabs is the fact that the majority of them are made from asbestos. Knowing what we know now about asbestos, this of course means that they could be hazardous – asbestos needs to be treated with care by professionals and if it is found in soil, it needs to be removed by a land remediation company like this https://soilfix.co.uk/services/soil-and-groundwater-remediation/ to make the soil safe again.
Despite this, there are homes that people are enjoying up and down the country, and many that have been protected by their residents when it was proposed to redevelop the land and get rid of them, resulting in protests.