Do you live in a studio apartment? Amid plans to make them smaller, we’d like to hear your experience

New apartment guidelines seek to reduce the size of studios, the number of windows and the amount of private outdoor space

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New apartment guidelines seek to reduce the size of studios. Photograph: iStock

New apartment guidelines reducing the size of studios, the number of windows and the amount of private outdoor space in apartment schemes are due to be published by Minister for Housing James Browne on Tuesday.

We’d like to hear what you think about it. Do you live in one of these studios currently? We’d like to hear your experience amid plans to make them smaller.

The minimum size of a studio apartment will be reduced to 32sq m, down from the 37sq m required under current standards.

A standard tennis court for doubles play is 260sq m, which means eight of the minimum sized studio apartments could fit into one court.

We want to hear from you on what it is like to live within 37sq m. How would you feel losing five of those square metres as proposed under the new standards?

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