Despite their advantages in housing homeless people, temporary offsite-built homes were in danger of becoming a mere “sticking plaster” to deal with the country’s housing crisis, a new report claims.

Experts from the University of London, Oxford Brookes University and Goldsmiths College examined Place/Ladywell, an award-winning development in Lewisham, south-east London, which provides temporary housing for homeless families.

The academics said the scheme should be used as a model for permanent homes to be built, but also warned that “without providing permanent housing too, developments like Place/Ladywell run the risk of just being a better ”sticking plaster’ for the problems of the housing crisis.”