Pete Halsall from Bioregional Quintain visited us this weekend, and left some very interesting news happening in the UK, so instead of me re-writing his comments, I thought I would just show them here in a post. There is alot of exciting news happening across the pond with sustainable communities!
“We develop sustainable communities in the UK - applying the 10 One Planet Living principles. Although the market is extremely tough, we are making progress with sales although buyers want to see the product in a finished state (we have just started construction)
Our Brighton project is - we reckon - by far the most sustainable residential project of it’s scale in the UK (120,000 sq. ft. + with 170 apartments. See http://www.onebrighton.co.uk
I would say though that we don’t have any issues with keeping our construction costs competitive, and largely through a range of innovations, including the establishment of community wide ESCOs (energy services companies) which shoulder the initial capex of the renewable energy systems.”
More on this can be found at http://www.bioregional-quintain.com
Thank you Pete for your comment, please keep us posted on the projects developments!
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July 30th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I’ve been watching closely what’s happening in California, USA.
Great news seeing the application of the 10 One Planet Living principles used in your UK projects.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Donald,
California is booming with these (Green)principles. It’s always amazed me that many cutting edge happenings start in California, such as green sustainable communities, which means these ideas will be spreading quickly very soon all over the U.S.
The U.K. I think, is still well ahead of us in the United States in this regard, but here we come!