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Hello, I'm Sean Fletcher.

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You're watching Inside Out London.

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Here's what's coming

up on tonight's show.

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Why London's commuters are deserting

the Tube in their droves.

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Tomorrow's my last day

working in London.

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Goodbye to the commute from hell

and to high childcare costs.

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With our elderly

population set to soar, is

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it time to start building

bungalows again?

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Older people enjoy them because it

means that they know they

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can live in this property for quite

awhile, don't have to move, they're

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not concerned about climbing

the stairs or the extra costs.

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And the untold story

of the secret Canary

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Girls of World War II.

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You couldn't have had

the Army, the Air Force and

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the Navy working without the bombs

that were being made here.

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Without the munitions the war

could not have been won.

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Now, here's a mystery for you.

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Several million people seem to have

gone missing from the capital.

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For the first time in 20 years,

the number of passengers

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using the Tube has fallen.

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The latest figures show 20 million

fewer journeys in the

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last year, even though the economy

and the population have grown.

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City Hall is baffled

and the fall in tube

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revenue has resulted in an order

for 27 new Tube trains being axed.

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But where have all

the commuters gone?

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We sent Mark Jordan to find out.

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Rush hour at Oxford Circus,

and the regular Tube lock-out due to

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overcrowding.

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For anyone going through

this hell the very last

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thing you would think the

Underground would be worried about

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is falling numbers.

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But they are.

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For the first time in 20 years,

Tube passenger numbers have fallen.

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384,000 fewer journeys each week.

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And all just months

before Crossrail opens.

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Even bigger falls on commuter lines,

Southwestern down 9%.

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It's very serious for

Transport For London,

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because of course the Underground

is the one part of Transport

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For London that does make a profit,

and it subsidises all

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of the other operations.

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The economy is growing.

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But at City Hall they

feel winter is coming.

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If there is a drop-off in

the economy the first place it shows

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up in the whole UK is

on the transport network in London.

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So it is a very fresh

piece of information.

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And no sooner had the deputy mayor

told me this, winter

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came in the biggest way.

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Was it a sign?

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So, tough times for TFL.

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We have commandeered the Old Tube

Carriage restaurant here at

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Walthamstow's Pumphouse Museum.

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Three wise experts agreed to ride

out the storm and help explain -

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whatever happened to

the missing commuters?

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It's not entirely surprising

when you look at how

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expensive it is to both

live and work in London,

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that people will be actively

seeking alternatives.

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New York is another

example where they

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are seeing a drop in passenger

numbers on their system.

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Technology is changing

an awful lot about our

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relationship with the workplace,

and it is disrupting the way that we

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used to work.

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So let's meet the missing prime

suspects in this metro mystery.

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Tomorrow is my last

day working in London.

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Goodbye to the commute

from hell and to high

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childcare costs.

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No crowds, no costs and I arrive

at work much quicker.

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The bike.

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And I do my bit for the London

economy right here, at home.

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With falling tube revenues and

a fares freeze, its mind the Gap.

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TFL just cancelled

an order for 27 new

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Tube trains.

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So let's meet our first missing

suspects - the exiles.

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Redhill in Surrey.

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I am visiting Amber Recruitment.

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They specialise in luring

people out of the capital.

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There is certainly

life after London.

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I'm currently travelling an hour

and a half each way per day.

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Jenna's three hour daily

round-trip is 15 hours a week.

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It means she spends an entire

month of every year

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on a train.

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Then add the strikes,

the cost and the overcrowding.

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I handed in my notice

in my current workplace.

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She's not alone.

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We've had lots of delays,

lots of cancellations.

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So that will be by 10:30,

and I left at 7am.

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This is the reason I am

giving up the commute.

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London is where you get

the well-paid jobs.

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London is where you get the status.

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Where you get the better

career options.

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But not so any more.

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Companies down here are beginning

to cotton on to the fact

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that we can nab these people.

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I've had enough.

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I think the time and the cost

is adding more burden, I think

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children, family situations change.

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I think they need to be educated

that there are good jobs locally.

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Which we are doing.

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We have seen, in London

and the South East, a

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doubling of house prices

over the last decade,

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but that inflation

is

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now ebbing, indeed, in London

they fell back by 5% over the last

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calendar year.

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I suspect we're going to see

more of that as people

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understand and appreciate

that they no longer

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have to pay to be right

in

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the heart of London unless that is

where they absolutely want to live.

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But not all missing commuters

have left the capital.

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Within a generation cycling

in London has tripled.

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The future is massively

bright for cycling.

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We are seeing a shift

in infrastructure, in

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politics.

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Apps have now made it possible

to unlock a bike anywhere

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around you, take it

with you to exactly

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where you need to go

and

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station it there again,

and then unlock another one and take

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it where you want to go again.

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So by creating great

bike lanes, TFL is

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losing money on the tubes.

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They used to probably

use the bike lanes bus

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or the tube and pay into the funds

for TFL but they are not so any

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more.

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So transport for London now has

a big challenge ahead of how we

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are going to keep paying for that

cycling infrastructure.

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And it is not just bikes.

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Uber's low-cost cars

are stealing Tube passengers.

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I want to move across London.

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What do I do?

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I get my phone out and then I either

call up and Uber and know

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exactly when they are going to come,

they are going to come exactly to my

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location, it is really convenient,

or I can look for a bike.

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It has re-change the

relationship we have

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with these modes of transport.

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And of course that

is having a profound

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impact on people's relationship

with public transport.

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There is something of

a contradiction for TFL.

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They are both the regulator

and the competitor.

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For TFL this is the big problem.

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We as consumers are saying

we want to use these new modes of

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transport.

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We don't want to have to rely

on these old modes of

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transport.

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Only time will tell if TFL

will relicense Uber.

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most.

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City Hall says off-peak

Tube travel is down

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most.

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If you look at the rise in delivery

vehicles in London, which

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has been huge, so many people use

the Internet now rather than

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actually go out and

walk round the shops.

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Maybe a 5% drop off in shopping

and we have seen something

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like a 2% drop-off on the tube.

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But home has also

become the workplace.

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A decade ago, broadband speeds

were typically at two megabytes per

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second.

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I've just had the latest upgrade

from BT, it has taken the

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over 50 megabytes per second.

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I can do everything

I used to have to do

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in town now from the

comfort of my own home.

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Brick Lane, and I have been invited

to the monthly meeting

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of the Hocksby collective.

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These lawyers,

advertisers and business

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advisers usually work

alone, from home.

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Because they can.

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I was commuting 450 miles per week.

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I think it allows me to fit my life

around my work rather than the other

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way around.

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The reality of making it happen

is so small, it's so easy to do.

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The technology and

the systems are there.

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But the impact on people's

lives is monument.

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I am both more productive and happy.

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The Hocksby way is

to love what you do,

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so that is to work

under your own terms,

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with your own work style,

in

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the way that suits you best.

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Most of us love the

idea of working from

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home.

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And increasingly bosses,

like at this architectural firm, are

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realising it is good for business.

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If you want numbers,

and if you think about every square

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foot of office space in central

London it is

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probably worth £1000.

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Somebody working at

a desk, traditionally,

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would take up 100 square feet.

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So that desk space

is worth £100,000.

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So you can see that a few of those

you need the less the cost to your

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business and in a dramatic way.

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Add to that Ben was losing talented

young staff due to the cost of

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London living.

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Hi, Charlotte.

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So he introduced part-time

working from home.

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It allows us to keep staff

that we might otherwise lose.

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We have one employee

who lives in Darlington

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who works from home

a

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couple of days a week.

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So for the likes of TFL this makes

a significant difference.

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They have to change their

plans, in many cases

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they will have to rip

up their revenue

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projections and change

the

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way that they operate.

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All London's plans,

like the proposed Crossrail 2,

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are still built on ever-growing

demand.

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Beyond the M25 they have spotted

London's fall in passenger

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journeys.

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London does have a system

that is fit for purpose.

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So what we are saying

is the North of England

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must now come to the front

of the queue when it comes to future

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transport investment.

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The drop-off in demand

has been about 2% over

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last year.

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The long-term trends are still

for economic and population

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growth.

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Are you worried?

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This is something

new so anything new

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worries us.

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It is just that life is changing.

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Mark Jordan reporting, there.

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Still to come on tonight's show...

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Almost 1 million women

were called up to

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make munitions, but unlike

the veterans of the Land Army, the

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Timber Corps and the Bevin Boys,

munitions workers have never

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received individual honours.

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So more than 70 years

after they played a

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significant role in the country's

victory, is it time that the

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Government officially recognised

the contribution made

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by the munitionettes?

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With most London property developers

adopting a pile them high policy,

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the bungalow has rather

fallen out of fashion.

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With the UK's elderly population set

to double in the next

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three decades, a recent House

of Commons report says that

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bungalows could be

just what is needed.

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So could single-storey living

be set for a comeback?

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I went to find out.

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This peaceful street tucked away

from the hustle and bustle of Acton

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comes as a great surprise to anyone

who stumbles across it, because it

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consists only of bungalows.

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It's very unusual to

find a whole street

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of them this close

to the city centre.

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But since the early 1950s they have

been the dream home for

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many people in retirement.

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No stairs to climb

and easy access for

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wheelchair users and those

who are unsteady on their feet.

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The bungalow actually gave

people, because it was

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quite cheap and they could often

build it themselves,

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it gave people this sort

of sense of independence.

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Older people enjoy

them because it means

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they know they can live in this

property for quite awhile, they

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don't have to move, they are not

concerned about climbing the stairs

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of the extra costs,

they are cheaper to heat.

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Because of my condition,

sort of thing, I've got no steps.

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You don't feel cramped,

you have plenty

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of room to move around.

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The first bungalows

were built in Britain back

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in the late 19th century, but

the idea sprang from a very exotic

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location.

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They are an Indian concept that

has been Anglicised.

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The word bungalow

actually means of Bengal.

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It is an Indian building type.

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And when English, British colonial

traders went over to India they

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started using that as their

model for their homes.

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As more and more people went

over to India they were

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bringing ideas back,

things like curries, like bungalows.

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So from the 1850s, that's

when you start seeing

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the first bungalows in this country.

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These were holiday homes,

they were second homes,

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so you had to be quite wealthy to be

able to afford that.

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In the 1920s people are still having

them as weekend retreats up to

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a point.

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Then those people, after the Second

World War, getting on a bit,

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they have got this vision

of the bungalow has

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a really happy place

in

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the countryside.

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That is the kind of place

they might like to retire to.

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And this is when you start to get

big suburban estates of bungalows.

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Building bungalows en masse

in suburbia became very popular for

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many years.

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In 1987 alone there

were over 28,000 built.

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Last year, though, there

would just over 2000.

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So there has been a steep decline.

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Developers aren't really

building new ones

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because they are quite land hungry.

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The price of land is so high that

what you can get a single bungalow

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with garden on one plot,

you could probably build a couple

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of houses, you could build upwards.

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Bungalows are not very

good in the kind of

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economic climate today.

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Even if they would be very

desirable because they

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are nice places to live.

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Local authorities

aren't particularly

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interested in bungalows.

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Whether you are an individual

wanting to build a

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bungalow, whether you are

a community land trust wanting to

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build a few homes

to create a community

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setting, whether you are

a

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cooperative building bungalows,

or even just a developer building

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for your local market,

it is a lot harder

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for you to get planning

permission to build a bungalow then

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it is to build a terraced house.

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London itself hasn't tried to get

more people to build bungalows and

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it hasn't tried to

stimulate the market.

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But with the recent House of Commons

communities select committee

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report acknowledging that with more

and more over 65 is living longer

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their housing needs will need to be

met, the answer - yes, you guessed

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it - start building bungalows again.

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This award-winning estate is one

of several being built

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or planned in Barking.

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These bungalows provide social

housing for elderly and

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disabled residents and were built

on land that was just lying dormant.

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Barking has historically been

developed in the 50s and 60s where

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it is car borne, and there are a lot

of underused garage sites.

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And that is what we have

actually been using

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here and a lot of these

smaller developments.

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It was based on an alms house,

and I think what is

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interesting, there is a sort of

contradiction between almshouses and

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bungalows.

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Bungalows were always built

on individual plots, and

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actually what we have done

here is group them together -

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bungalows or a courtyard house,

in a grouping,

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because it has a sort of social

centre and focal point.

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People, both the individual

and collective, was

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People, both the individual

and collective, was

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very much at the heart

of this proposal here.

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One of the residents

here lost his leg in an industrial

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accident, so climbing

stairs became impossible.

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Moving here was ideal.

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Sometimes you can't get your leg on,

your leg swells up.

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And you can't wear your leg.

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So you have to sort of go around

on your bum, sort of

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thing, or on your hands and knees.

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Or in a wheelchair or on crutches.

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And going upstairs, if you haven't

got a stairlift, you have to...

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It's horrible.

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So a bungalow is ideal.

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Ideal, yeah.

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If I do need to use the wheelchair,

it's easy, everything is

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just wide and the wheelchair

can spin round.

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They've thought about it.

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It is full of disabled

and elderly people.

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And the design is all

right, it's fine.

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It's misleading.

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It looks more from outside

but when you come in its

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quite spacious.

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Tom, like most of the residents

here, moved from a much

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bigger house, freeing up other

properties that could house larger

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families.

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So building these new bungalows

actually made economic sense.

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This actual site, one of eight now,

we have managed to get 76

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of these type properties which has

freed up 66 homes for families.

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And that is really important.

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So actually they all

interlink when it

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comes to what we're trying

to do as a community.

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Why build bungalows?

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The reason we are building bungalows

is because people need bungalows.

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People want bungalows.

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Remember, we are asking

people to give up three

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or four, five bedroom houses that

have been their life.

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They will still have

family heirlooms that

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they want to keep and they want

a space that is still their own.

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And that is what this allows.

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It is a very small,

compact, but very agile

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way of allowing people to carry

on what they see as their life path.

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There is a waiting list.

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And we have people of

a older nature or a more

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vulnerable nature saying we can't

manage the bigger home, can we have

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one of these?

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And that is why we

are still building.

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So we will have over 100 units

by the end of the summer,

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which is fantastic.

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And we want to continue

that to happen.

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So one council is seeing how popular

bungalows still are with the

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elderly.

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All over the capital

and the suburbs, though, and lack of

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All over the capital

and the suburbs, though, a lack of

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empty land to build on is surely

the biggest problem

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that those wanting bungalows

in the future face.

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It is definitely

a concern in London, the

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amount of space.

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However, a Government

policy was office to

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residential, so you could easily

convert, without a long planning

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process, an office block

into residential homes.

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Now, since that policy

was introduced, it has really

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taken off.

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That is because there

is a policy in place and local

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authorities then have to deliver it.

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There are very many small sites

and we are sitting on a fantastic

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development here which really shows

off what you can do with a good

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piece of land.

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And we can have a mix of bungalows,

you can have a mix of

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housing, maybe you need a mix

of them all, and maybe when we talk

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about affordable housing is

what we really need to start talking

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about is what the area needs.

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And perhaps we don't need

30 affordable houses -

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maybe we need 25 bungalows.

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And perhaps the local

authority can work

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with the developer to deliver that

sort of flexibility.

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Bungalows have faced economic

cutbacks and lack of

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space, but they are still places

that many elderly see as a dream

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home.

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So with support from the Commons,

bungalows could be a thing

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of the future as well as the past.

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Most of those who worked on the home

front to help Britain win the Second

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World War have been given a medal

or an official badge.

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That includes miners

and farm workers who helped

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keep the country going.

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But one group of women

who did some of the

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most dangerous work have

always been overlooked.

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Former BBC correspondent Kate Adie

asks if it is now time the

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Canary Girls were given their due.

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We shall fight on the beaches,

we shall fight on the landing

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grounds...

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It was Britain's darkest hour.

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Its cities pounded by German

bombers, the threat of invasion

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real.

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Churchill, though, was defiant.

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We shall fight in the hills.

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We shall never surrender.

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The country needed

bombs and bullets on

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an industrial scale,

but there weren't enough civilian

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men to go into the factories.

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So Britain turned to its women.

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Over the next four years,

almost 1 million women

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were called up to make munitions.

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But unlike the veterans of the Land

Army, the Timber Corps and the Bevin

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Boys, who worked down the mines,

munitions workers have never

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received individual honours.

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The Royal Ordinance factory

near Hereford was one of Britain's

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largest munitions plants.

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Is employed around 2000 workers,

most of them women.

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Today the site is overgrown

and neglected but local

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historian Bill believes

what happened here should

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not be forgotten.

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You couldn't have had the army,

the air force and navy

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working without the bombs that

were being made here.

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Without the munitions that

were produced across

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the country, the war

could not have been won.

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The National Munitions Association

estimates there are

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around 300 surviving veterans.

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I have arranged to have tea

with a few who worked here.

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Hello!

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How nice to see you.

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The women had to register for work

when they turned 18.

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Fresh out of school,

Elizabeth Cross was made an

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inspector, overseeing the assembly

of artillery shells.

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Had you had any experience?

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I had no idea.

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I don't think we had any experience.

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I think we were just showed what do.

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And that was that.

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Nancy worked on the 25-pounders

which were fired by

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the army's main field gun.

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When you were working

with shells, did you

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ponder what they were going to do?

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Yes, we did really.

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Conscious of it.

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But we knew that

...it had to be done.

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The women may have been working

on the home front, but the

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work was at times dangerous.

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For one, they were

handling huge amounts

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of explosives.

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Maureen from Orpington

in Kent was sent to work

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at a munitions factory near Stoke.

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But during her training

she was involved

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in an accident when her

instructor made a mistake.

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She said, you take this

bottle and you put

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this in...

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Telling me all about it, you see.

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And then the next thing I knew

I was lying on the ground

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outside having been blown out

through the door, I suppose!

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Maureen's hearing was permanently

damaged and her face is required

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plastic surgery.

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Her instructor, who was just 18,

was exposed to the full

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force of the blast.

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She must have been

blown up in the place.

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And she died.

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But working with explosives

posed other risks too.

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With just basic protective

equipment, some

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workers fell ill

from poisonous fumes.

0:22:490:22:52

Nancy Evans handled chemicals

including cordite, arsenic and TNT,

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which can cause toxic jaundice

and turn the skin yellow.

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It is why some munitions

workers became known as

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Canary Girls.

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Your hair would turn blonde,

your hands were all yellow.

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Your face was yellow.

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Nancy soon developed severe

stomach problems.

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They took me to the hospital,

and they operated that

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night, and it took me five

days before I came to,

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because of the TNT poisoning.

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Pregnant workers were

particularly at risk.

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Lillian Summers remembers

when a friend lost her baby.

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It was born with yellow skin.

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I can remember.

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It was six days old.

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And she lost it.

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The tiny, pale, little yellow baby.

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Because she worked

in the fill, you see?

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We called it the fill.

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Filling the shells?

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Yes, the fill.

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Air raid shelters like

this were built in the

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grounds of the factories

because not only were

0:23:590:24:02

explosives and chemical

is

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a danger, the workers

were a target of the Luftwaffe.

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At 6am on the 27th of July 1942,

a German bomber was

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spotted over Hereford.

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The siren went.

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We saw the plane up there.

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Thinking, oh, we are all right,

it is one of ours, we are OK.

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And then there was a big whoosh...

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And we realised it wasn't.

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A man ran through when he said get

out, it's for real. My friend called

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me and we raced down the corridors.

In a plane came down and it came

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down so low you could see the

swastika on it. There were two bombs

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dropped and then you can just

imagine what it was like.

I was

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helping the people to get in the

ambulances. And then was going

0:24:510:25:02

around picking the dead ones up. It

was terrible. I never saw anything

0:25:020:25:09

like it.

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At least 24 people were killed in

the bombing. And every year

0:25:190:25:25

99-year-old Nancy Evans joins

Hereford's old soldiers to remember

0:25:250:25:27

the friends she lost that day.

I

thought how nice it would have been

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if they were here, the ones that got

killed. I lost many of them. I sent

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my prayers out to them.

So having

done important and dangerous work,

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why haven't these women received

official recognition? In the

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Commons, Theresa May cited what she

called practical reasons.

I'm sure

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everyone in the house would want to

join me in plain tribute to the

0:26:010:26:06

thousands who worked in munitions

factories. For practical reasons it

0:26:060:26:11

isn't possible to pursue individual

awards.

Missing records could make

0:26:110:26:15

it difficult to verify whether

veterans are genuine but still some

0:26:150:26:19

have documents proving they were

canary girls. And even those who

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don't should be recognised,

according to the former MP who

0:26:230:26:27

successfully fought the recognition

of the Bevin Boys.

Records

0:26:270:26:33

successfully fought the recognition

of the Bevin Boys.

Records

0:26:330:26:33

successfully fought the recognition

of the Bevin Boys.

Records will be

0:26:330:26:34

difficult, often statements can be

collaborated by people and that

0:26:340:26:38

should be

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collaborated by people and that

should be strong enough. If it is

0:26:380:26:39

good enough

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should be strong enough. If it is

good enough for the Bevin Boys and

0:26:390:26:41

Gordon Brown and did something for

the land girls, there is no reason

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at all whether the treatment of the

day shouldn't quickly recognise the

0:26:450:26:49

role that the armaments factory were

workers played in our victory in

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1945.

Following a campaign backed by

BBC radio Hereford and Worcester

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radio, to May invited a group of

musicians workers to number ten, but

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official recognition was not

discussed.

It was an interesting

0:27:060:27:10

time the ladies, they met Theresa

May and how gravity and piece of

0:27:100:27:13

cake. But that is not formal

recognition. I think they deserve

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some sort of medal or a formally

recognised badge they can wear with

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pride and that their family members

can cling on to as well. They were

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quite happy to honour the man who

fired the bullets and drop the bombs

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but here we are with these women who

made them and without whom we could

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not have won the wars.

In a

statement, the Government or this

0:27:360:27:41

programme...

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Do you think you should be in some

way officially recognise?

Yes,

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please. Eddie. I would very much.

I

think it is important because I

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think we should be treated the same

as everybody else.

I would like

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that. I think all these ladies would

like it.

It is a difficult fact that

0:28:150:28:22

each year fewer and fewer of these

remarkable women survived to tell

0:28:220:28:25

their stories. So if the Government

is to act it must do so quickly.

0:28:250:28:32

Kate Adie reporting. I really hope

the canary girls get the proper Rick

0:28:360:28:40

recognition they deserve. That is it

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out. Tonight's programme will be

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our website, and click on London. We

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