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Once you step inside The Flat, the first thing you notice is how spacious and open it feels, and that's due to the expansive glazing and the 10-foot ceilings throughout.

Claire Strudwick, 27, who lives in a one-bed flat in Green Dragon House with her boyfriend, said it was the "only way" she could get on the property ladder but that it "wasn't perfect".