The UK builds the smallest homes in Europe,

The sofa won't fit into the living room. There's not enough room for children to play in the kitchen as you cook. And where's the recycling bin meant to go?
These are some of the complaints from residents of new-build developments surveyed by Cabe, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
The floor area and room sizes are the smallest in Europe - the average room in a newly built dwelling in France is 26.9 square metres, compared with 15.8 square metres in the UK - and, the graph below shows how British new-builds are less than half the size of those in the United States and Australia.

Conversiton for chart:
Us 214 m squared = 23000 sqft
Australia 206 m squared = 2217 sqft
Denmark 137 m squared = 1475 sqft

France 113 m squared = 1217 sqft
Spain 97 m squared = 1044 sqft
Ireland 88 m squared = 947 sqft
UK 76 m squared = 818 sqft

The Cabe survey questioned residents of homes built between 2003 and 2006, in London or within an hour's travel time of the capital.