The London Borough of Kensington recently announced a review of its basement policy. Simon Barnes comments:

I believe this review is a great idea and not before time. Developers and builders have become swept away by the thought of making excessive profits through creating basements, based on this obsession with ‘square footage’.

A desire to enhance the square footage of the house believing this will greatly enhance the value is misguided.  Squash courts located in a newly created basement going under the garden are practical and with purpose; creating vast basements, or double or even triple deep basements are not because in reality much of this space will not be used and a house then becomes divided by useable space and simply redundant space.
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