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The Square Metre is going the way of the Rod, Pole or
Perch
June 13 2004 at 12:46 AM |
Tony
Bennett
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In November 2002, a magazine called the *Estates
Gazette* dropped metres as the prime measurement of floor area - in other
words, they stopped leading with square metres and putting square feet in
brackets afterwards. They reversed this, putting floor area in square feet
first.
In April this year, the magazine decided to drop the square
metres in brackets, with all measurements of floor area now given in
square feet only.
Similarly, in May this year, the upmarket estate
agents *Knight Frank* (formerly Knight Frank Rutley) dropped the use of
metric from its research reports.
On 15 May this year, the
Editor of "Estate Gazette" commented as follows:
"In property at
least, the square metre is going the way of the rod, pole or perch -
medieval measurements of length (about five and a half yards) that older
readers will remember from the back of school exercise
books.
"People simply do not talk in square metres. They talk in
feet. Agents do it. Occupiers do it. Even educated investment managers do
so. So ler's talk - and write - in feet".
Source: Eurofacts, 11
June 2004, page 4
Why is this being allowed to happen?
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