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 Norfolk has received, the others are the CPRE Norfolk Award and the LABC East Building Excellence Award.
The project was nominated by a Planning Manager within the council and the judging panel wrote:
“This is a pioneering development of 15 affordable homes of simple, unfussy form and mixing traditional and modern materials. It is also a working experiment in sustainable and economic design and construction, using different combinations of technology in each of the four blocks, including solar collectors (both for heating and electricity), heat recovery, ground source heat pumps and very high levels of insulation. One block has efficient gas central heating to act as a comparison with the remainder. The aim is to find a readily-reproducible, cost-effective and highly energy-efficient solution for future housing development. The project is being monitored by the University of East Anglia.”
The affordable homes are also amongst six finalists for the National LABC Building Excellence Awards which are to be presented in a ceremony in London in October.
