Grand Designs review: £4m down – and still no house

Even seasoned presenter Kevin McCloud seems shocked by the huge scale of this megabasement project – yet it’s hard not to will it to succeedAs soon as Kevin McCloud sets the scene – a graveyard in south-west London – you know the latest instalment of Grand Designs (Channel 4) is going to be a classic. Surely nobody would build on such a place, “out of respect, for fear of desecration,” says McCloud, hamming up the potential for gothic drama. “But that&rs