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 [...]
The first scheme of Low Energy “GreenGauge” Affordable Housing by Ipswich Architects Barefoot & Gilles has won the coveted ‘Best Social or Affordable Housing’ Award at the 2009 LABC East Anglia Building Excellence Awards. The project beat off five other housing schemes to scoop the award at a black tie dinner in Cambridge on [...]
The GreenGauge Homes project in Lingwood, Norfolk, was honoured at the CPRE Norfolk Awards last week.
This scheme of 15 eco-friendly affordable homes designed by Barefoot & Gilles incorporates the latest construction and energy technologies to provide housing at just 5% above the price of Housing Corporation standard homes and offer significant savings in running costs [...]
CPRE Norfolk is pleased to announce details of this year’s ‘Green Buildings in Norfolk – Open Days’ event. Guided tours at private eco-homes, zero carbon developments, energy efficient social housing and environment centres in Norfolk have once again been arranged by CPRE Norfolk as part of the nationwide Heritage Open Days scheme. Tours will take [...]
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.
