Boughton Butler are planning land use opportunities for Eco-Villages in several places in our local region. These will target the reuse of brownfield land in a sustainable way.
For more information on our Ecologically friendly work, please see the first edition of our newsletter here.
Haylers End, Hanley Swan, Worcestershire
Sustainable housing set around a live/work hub
This is a proposal for a new kind of residential development on the site of a former Waste Incinerator. A public consultation exercise welcomed the removal of the incinerator and there was a majority in favour of a 'low-impact' community: an eco-hamlet.
Houses are grouped looking onto a village green. A hub formed from the base of the old incinerator building is owned by the Community and provides workspace and community areas. Houses are to Level 5 of the Code for Sustainable Homes with biomass heating, photovoltaics, allotments and reed beds.
Roman Park, Droitwich
Innovative eco-development of 57 residential units
Kingerlee Homes and Boughton Butler have successfully obtained planning permission for this innovative scheme on the former site of the Army Medals Office.
The scheme consists of 57 new homes which are a mix of 2 bed apartments and 3, 4 and 5 bed houses. Some 30% of the scheme will be affordable homes for either rent or shared ownership. The new homes will be built to at least Level 3 of the Code for Sustainable Homes, and to Level 4 where possible, depending on particular housetypes.
Comments on the scheme
"We are particularly pleased with the way our Architects, Boughton Butler of Worcester, have grasped a myriad of sometimes conflicting design requirements and brought forward an innovative scheme which has met with significant support from the Council, the local Civic Society and regional Design Panel." Jonathan Kingerlee, Chairman of Kingerlee Homes
"I'm absolutely delighted. My goodness, the 21st century has arrived in Wychavon. The scheme is exciting, there is variety and somebody has had the courage to use glass and air, essential building materials, with great imagination and foresight. I think this might well become a benchmark scheme." Coun. Roma Kirke, Wychavon District Council
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▪ Client: Kingerlee Homes
Boughton Butler ▪ The Design Studio ▪ 6 Sansome Walk ▪ Worcester ▪ WR1 1LH Tel: 01905 723544 ▪ Fax: 01905 726699 architects@boughtonbutler.co.uk
