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 [...]
As a shortlist of 15 new Eco-towns is announced by Housing Minister Caroline Flint, BBC Look East’s Mike Liggins visits the new residents of the completed GreenGauge Homes scheme at Lingwood, Norfolk.
The scheme of 15 timber framed GreenGauge Homes is the first to be completed by a partnership between Architects Barefoot & Gilles, Flagship Housing [...]
Most people are being forced to closely scrutinise their utility power bills in an effort to save a few pounds – but for one group of Norfolk villagers that is no longer a problem.
For instead of looking worryingly at electricity and gas meters, the occupiers of 15 new homes in Lingwood, near Yarmouth, are now [...]
It may not look it but this construction site of new homes is at the centre of an innovative experiment to see if people can cut their power bills and help save the planet by using green technology.
From the outside they may look like modern stylish homes but a closer inspection reveals that they are [...]
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.
