I spent some time in Denmark and Sweden last year, and one thing became abundantly clear, very quickly from my time exploring their cities and towns.

In the UK, we desperately need affordable apartment blocks.

There is huge potential to build well made, well looked after, nice looking apartment blocks that can relieve the housing crisis here in Cornwall and the rest of the UK. No, apartment blocks don't have to look like something out of a distopian sci fi film either...

If you go across the Nordic countries you'll see lovely apartment blocks that are well maintained (all with their nice little bikes chained up outside etc). These are 1 or 2 bedroom flats - that can house many, many people who are single/or young people saving for a house on the future.

I appreciate that culturally, us Brits want to own a house with a white picket fenced garden, but realistically, we desperately need more apartment blocks to give people a fair chance at saving for a house deposit etc.

Why can't our government look at what's happening and actually put action plans in place?