social housing development - general criteria
Garden-centred Eco-Hamlets (see also Project page - click HERE)
a) Ideally, Projects need to provide 70% affordable homes with 35% to rent. These must have onsite integral energy and waste systems where possible, as well as adequate gardens and allotments for residents’ food production.
b) 2- & 3-storey houses can be planned as clusters around these useful gardens, allotments and play areas, with car-parking kept strictly to the peripheries of these Eco-Hamlets. Mostly foot and cycle access to rear or fronts of homes. Small electric vans or electric 3-wheel bikes could be shared by elders and disabled with goods to carry from bus-stops with shuttle bus services to Town. Most residents would use their key lock-up trolley to carry goods from carpark to their home.
c) Need to provide each Eco-Hamlet with a small Community Café and a multi-purpose large room. This could host a Community Restaurant with a voluntary chef-manager for providing bring-and-share local produce and regular meals; also space for toddlers’ crèche.
Eco-Hamlets having these characteristics will be aesthetically pleasing, enhance the health and wellbeing of all who dwell in them, as well as being a positive economic benefit to the greater community. Mindless, car-centred suburban sprawls, are boring, anti-social and very expensive to construct and service in terms of power, drainage, and wastes collection. They are no longer sustainable in today’s world of food and energy shortages.
read more about Permaculture Design:
Garden-centred Eco-Hamlets (see also Project page - click HERE)
a) Ideally, Projects need to provide 70% affordable homes with 35% to rent. These must have onsite integral energy and waste systems where possible, as well as adequate gardens and allotments for residents’ food production.
b) 2- & 3-storey houses can be planned as clusters around these useful gardens, allotments and play areas, with car-parking kept strictly to the peripheries of these Eco-Hamlets. Mostly foot and cycle access to rear or fronts of homes. Small electric vans or electric 3-wheel bikes could be shared by elders and disabled with goods to carry from bus-stops with shuttle bus services to Town. Most residents would use their key lock-up trolley to carry goods from carpark to their home.
c) Need to provide each Eco-Hamlet with a small Community Café and a multi-purpose large room. This could host a Community Restaurant with a voluntary chef-manager for providing bring-and-share local produce and regular meals; also space for toddlers’ crèche.
Eco-Hamlets having these characteristics will be aesthetically pleasing, enhance the health and wellbeing of all who dwell in them, as well as being a positive economic benefit to the greater community. Mindless, car-centred suburban sprawls, are boring, anti-social and very expensive to construct and service in terms of power, drainage, and wastes collection. They are no longer sustainable in today’s world of food and energy shortages.
read more about Permaculture Design:
- development potential assessment
- planning applications
- planning for sustainability
- light industrial zones
- integral energy and wastes systems