Everyone is building sustainable housing now, but can they do it affordably?
A key challenge of the introduction of and any housing standards, both in grant funded housing or in the open market, must be for them to be implemented in a cost effective way in order to ensure their success in volume.
Any process of introducing [...]
Broadland District Council has awarded the GreenGauge Homes at Lingwood a High Commendation in their bi-annual design awards. The awards enable the Council to “encourage and recognise the special efforts which have taken place to raise the standard of design in the Broadland district”.
This is the third award which the scheme of affordable housing in [...]
The houses at Lingwood are a mixture of 2-bed 3 person and 3-bed 5 person homes, designed to meet the developing association’s Design Brief. All homes were south facing, arranged in a pair and three terraces. All the houses are timber framed with untreated larch cladding and high levels of insulation. In many ways they [...]
Building affordable housing on rural exception sites is a difficult business, involving a wide range of stakeholders, and the funding structure is strict. If an RSL is to invest in raising the sustainability standards of its properties across the board, it has to do this from the basis of reliable information – it can’t afford [...]
Welcome to the GreenGauge Homes website.
This site is being developed to share information about the GreenGauge Homes approach to developing sustainable affordable housing.
Over the coming months we will be publishing a range of material on this site including:
Information about the GreenGauge Homes approach to sustainable housing, for example “Why are GreenGauge Homes not Kit Houses?”;
Details [...]
When the Ecohomes standard was introduced, followed by the Code for Sustainable Homes which replaced it, these standards were first compulsory for Grant Funded Affordable Housing, that is, most housing developed by housing associations.
As a result the first to respond in a significant way to the demands of these codes were the developing housing associations.
Some [...]
In 2003 a group of housing design, development and construction professionals embarked on a project to see how affordable housing could meet changing energy standards and still be built within a tight grant funding structure.
This project was the GreenGauge Homes at Lingwood in Norfolk, the first to be built with the GreenGauge Homes approach.
This website has been created to share our continuing findings, discuss the issues and seek new partners who want to move their housing developments forward, one step at a time.
