Plans for eco-homes put on display
Saturday 18th October 2008, 11:00AM BST.
An exhibition has been held in Shrewsbury to explain the details of a controversial planning application to build five massive luxury eco-friendly homes.
Plans to develop land at Pengrove, Kingsland, near the old brewery in Longden Coleham, have sparked a storm of opposition across Shrewsbury – but developers claim incorrect rumours have been spread about them.
Planning agent Les Stephan, who represents developers G C Rickard, staged an exhibition on Monday in Longden Coleham.
Each house will be made from a different material and they have been called “the slate house”, “the copper house”, “the timber house”, “the black house”, and “the white house”.
Mr Stephan said: “We want to give people the opportunity to come and look at the plans at their leisure rather than having to go down to the planning department.”
Simon Lamprell, of Aedas Architects, based in Shrewsbury, said: “We are trying to make all the houses unique in their own right.
They are each having a different character with the principle material used. The key to it is the sustainable approach to the housing.”
Ronald Bowlby, 82, of Uppington Avenue, visited the exhibition.
He said: “I live very nearby and walk along there almost everyday and I’m very conscious of the need to preserve green spaces in Belle Vue and there are not very many.”
Mr Bowlby said he was also concerned about the lack of affordable housing for the project.
He said: “There’s a desperate need for affordable housing rather than large, luxury houses.”
Hendrik and Rebecca Fahrenholt, of Pengrove, visited the exhibition with their daughters Frieda, three, and Anneli, four months.
Mrs Fahrenholt said: “We have come along because it will have an impact on the natural ecological corridor than currently exists and because of the impact on the street and the extra traffic.”
Mr Fahrenholt said: “We have seen otters there. There is all sorts of wildlife there. Also at the moment it’s a safe place for children to play on and once there is more traffic there, it will be a problem.”
By Rebecca Lawrence
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what ever they are not green homes, they are green wash
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Caravans are the only real green homes. Made of recyclable metal. In fact if you buy an ex-holiday home one, you save the cost to the environment of scrapping it and the buiding of a brick and mortar house. (Cement and concrete production produces its own weight in CO2!)
Go Green, Go Caravan.
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I’m no Green evangelist – but I can see the logic of it..
… and I’m at a loss to know how all these new housing around the county is “Green” in any way – throw a bit more insulation in, some thermal water heaters on the roof yes, but tarmacing the drives and pushing even more houses per square yard than previously actually does little for the environment in a real way. I suspect its just the same old same old recycled plans from the pass but more squeezed into the same area.
Smaller cheaper houses aren’t built because they don’t have the profit margins. If you look at the published plans before they build various places – they seem to use the same sops to nature but rarely are local conservationists involved in planning places from day-1. Lets ask for that.
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I dont want to spoil the plans but I saw a Great Crested Newt there the other day.
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this is just what the town needs, vibrant central sustainable low carbon housing to support the growing economy and protect the fragile environmetn, i for one back this scheme
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eco friendly? Green?
well it must be ok then!
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Howaboiut homes made out of rubbish? We could form bricks by using high amounts of pressure out of everyday rubbish – these could then be coated with a polymer coating so they would not Deteriorate
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It’s the new spin – stick ‘eco’ on the front and it’s all OK.
Building is building, it always destroys the existing landscape. Have a look at the horrifying plans for ‘eco-towns’ – dumping loads of brick boxes on green fields.
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Call them Eco!! and they must be built.
Like green taxes, just more stealth.
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i would rarher see trouncers brewery reopen
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“Plans to develop land at Pengrove, Kingsland, near the old brewery in Longden Coleham”
Whereabouts exactly?If it’s Conney Fields ,no they shouldn’t be built since you can’t get more eco friendly than a green space.
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Have found out they’ve been refused planning permission twice.First time round they weren’t eco homes,second time round they were billed as eco homes-so as to get planning permission(obviously not eco-friendly enough to get planning permission).If in doubt check Shrewsbury and Atcham Council’s website,where you can look through planning applications and see on what basis they’ve been refused planning permission.
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