As the cost of temporary accommodation soars across the county, 23 new pods for homeless people are being stacked into place in Ashford. They are designed to be an energy-efficient alternative to building new homes, but is the scheme on a flood-hit car park something that could be expanded to other parts of Kent? Liane Castle reports. “Living in the car was not a good time for us, one of these pods would have been better than the street.” Friday Quick’s assessment of Ashford Borough Council’s project on Henwood Industrial Estate – the first of its kind in the county – would surely be echoed by…