Wales 'needs more houses'

Some of the biggest cities in Wales are relying too heavily on flats as opposed to houses in their building plans, a university professor has said.

Flats now make up 70 per cent of Cardiff's new homes in some areas, the BBC has reported, as opposed to 20 per cent a decade a go.

In response to this trend, professor John Punter from Cardiff University has said that there must be a greater variety of land allocated for development in order to counteract the tendency to build flats on brownfield sites.

"In effect, what is happening to our housing market is it is becoming all apartments," the professor advised, according to the BBC.

"It does not cater for large sections of the community. Most apartments are one- and two-bedroom, so they are good for couples and people co-habiting and things like that," he added.

Seventy-four per cent of new homes are currently built on brownfield sites, up from 56 per cent in 1997.

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