This is massive! We’re not talking the odd house built out of recycled bottles or a bit of chemical-free paint, this is Eco-Building. Countryside properties’ latest development is St. Mary’s Island in Kent, a brownfield site that has been reclaimed, redeveloped and revolutionised into a 150 acre residential eco-community. The Essex based development company has won 160 awards, including 60 for sustainability, 95 for design quality, named as the leading housebuilder in the World Wildlife Fund / Insight Investment sustainability performance ranking and best brownfield development at the Mail on Sunday National Housebuilder Design Awards – I’ll just catch my breath. But how are their homes eco friendly?
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The company designs its homes using environmentally-friendly materials, installs energy efficient appliances and builds their houses to maximize the number of homes with southwest or southeast orientation. This increases passive solar gains giving the potential for roof-based solar water heating, which some of the homes already have. Plus 95 per cent of the group’s residential development is on brownfield and recycled urban land. Going green on this kind of scale is truly revolutionary.
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