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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
