It is now up to the public to decide who the winner is, and we’d be thrilled if you’d vote for us! To vote, visit www.homebuilding.co.uk/news/awardsWe are no. 6 and mid-way down the page but to vote it’s just after entry 19. Please feel free to share this with colleagues, relatives, friends, and anyone else who […]
Springfield Meadows, the UK’s leading sustainable housing development, has been awarded Timber Frame Project of the Year and Custom and Self-Build Project of the Year at the Structural Timber Awards. The site consists of 25 beautiful homes, including nine managed by Sovereign Housing Association and is a fully Climate Positive development, with net-zero energy and better-than-zero […]
On Thursday 9th September, Springfield Meadows scooped the OxProp Award for Best Residential Development in Oxfordshire. Springfield Meadows is the UK’s most sustainable private residential property development site consisting of 25 beautiful homes, including nine managed by Sovereign Housing Association. In winning the award, the eco-living site beat five other Oxfordshire developments shortlisted for the […]
The six members of the Oxfordshire Zero Carbon Homes (OZCHI) partnership* have written to the leaders of all six Oxfordshire councils calling for rapid action to ensure that all new buildings across the county are built to ‘zero carbon’ standards. The letter is attached. This follows the proposal in the current Oxfordshire 2050 Plan consultation […]
Published in December’s issue of Oxfordshire Limited Edition Magazine, Denise Barkley interviewed Greencore and Ssassy Property director, Ian Pritchett, about Springfield Meadows, a zero carbon development being built by Greencore at Southmoor, Oxfordshire. In the article, Denise writes: “Developers Ssassy Property are 30 years ahead of the Government’s 2050 zero-carbon target at Springfield Meadows in Southmoor, where 25 sustainable […]
Just eight plots out of 25 are left for sale at Springfield Meadows, a development of brand new eco-homes being built by Greencore Construction at the site in Oxfordshire. The development, which is expected to complete by the end of 2020, has seen an upswing in sales over the summer, with 12 plots now sold […]
Ed Vaizey, former culture minister and MP for Wantage, joined Greencore Construction and other local housing and low carbon building experts last week to celebrate the opening of one of Britain’s most sustainable communities, in Longcot, Oxfordshire. Kings Farm Close is a new development of 15 eco-homes, including six affordable homes built to the same high […]
New eco-friendly homes in the Oxfordshire village of Longcot have been recognised by Bioregional for their ‘national leadership in implementing One Planet Living®’. The One Planet Living® framework was created by international sustainability charity Bioregional as a system for planning sustainable developments and keeping them on track to achieve their goals. The 15 new homes in the […]
Greencore Construction has signed a design and build contract to deliver fifteen new eco homes at Longcot, Oxfordshire for local developer Oxford Advanced Living. The new homes at Kings Farm Close, Longcot will include six affordable homes and nine open market units. The affordable homes will be sold to a housing association in 2018, and […]
Greencore Construction has signed a design and build contract to deliver three new eco homes at Marcham, near Abingdon, for local developer Oxford Advanced Living. The three new homes will all be built using Greencore’s proprietary Biond system of offsite timber frame construction, and will target a negative carbon footprint and very low ongoing energy requirement. […]