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Eco house designed by 10 year old submitted for planning |
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5 Jan 2010, 11:52 AM
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A ten year old girl's arty designs for a zero carbon house to be built in Redditch have been submitted to the planning department. Jennifer Brook's design is due to be built in a proposed £8million 80-home low carbon community after plans were submitted to Redditch Borough Council on Tuesday, December 22. The Redditch Low Carbon Co-op, run by local people, will include two zero carbon homes based on the design by Jennifer who won a competition to design the Eco Home of the Future in 2008 when she was just ten-years-old.
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Jennifer, now 12, said: "I think it's really fantastic that a house is actually going to be built that uses some of the ideas from my design. I can't wait to visit it with some of my friends once it's been finished." Also on the site will be two low carbon houses constructed using 70 per cent recycled materials and 75 timber Eco Homes with 'green' sedum roofs and solar panels, using 50 per cent less energy than traditional brick-built properties.
The Redditch Low Carbon Co-op will save 500 tonnes of carbon dioxide in construction by using timber rather than traditional brick. The site, off Redstone Close in Redditch, will also preserve oak woodland and a medieval hedgerow, as well as Roman archaeological earthworks including ancient drainage ditches. The project will be delivered by Redditch Co-operative Homes in partnership with the Accord Group and Redditch Borough Council.
RCH Manager Carl Taylor said: “This will be a unique community bringing together the latest in green technology while preserving and enhancing the natural habitat. “We are particularly excited for Jennifer who dreamt of seeing her Eco Home design become a reality. She should be able to actually show people around it by the summer of 2011.”
The twin Jennifer Houses will be zero carbon and built to level six of the Code for Sustainable Homes. The remaining houses, which are made from sustainable Scandinavian timber, will be built to code level four.
Jennifer was a pupil at Cawston Grange School in Rugby when she beat more than 70 other youngsters from across the Midlands in designing an eco home chosen by environmental campaigner David Bellamy.
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