Mellon plans house factory for Cape’s homeless

PHILANTHROPIST Niall Mellon has revealed plans to build the world’s first charity house factory which be believes can be used as a model to eradicated shanty-towns in developing countries.

The Dubliner has been granted a 30-year lease on a site in Cape Town where his charity will produce 5,000 timber-framed houses a year for those currently living in shacks around the city.

He said if he could source enough funding he envisaged operating a necklace of similar factories wherever people did not have proper accommodation.