It’s been a fantastic year for the community housing project here in Hook Norton. The first residents have moved in, the landscaping is bedding in and developing, and the community building, for use by the whole village is reaching completion.…
The Hook Norton Community Housing project has been shortlisted for 5 regional and national awards. It has been shortlisted in the Best Low Carbon Home category in the Evening Standard New Homes Awards, and in the Best Healthy Home category…
We recently visited this project in Hook Norton which is reaching completion. An extensive community engagement process shaped the project throughout its development through a series of interviews, surveys and open meetings. With an ambitious sustainability strategy at its heart,…
The vast majority of new housing is unsustainable, unfit for purpose, and doesn’t answer the local need. Possibly one of the biggest issues that results in the poor quality of housing in this country is the discrepancy between the local…
The planning permission has been submitted for our scheme for the Hook Norton community housing project. The scheme, which is the culmination of an extensive community engagement process plans to create 12 dwellings and a community building centred around a…
The second year of the Bristol Housing Festival is now underway and Charlie will be speaking at the Self Build and Community Led Housing event there tomorrow. The Festival is supporting the building of new communities across the city of Bristol through an…
This week is Oxford Green Week . A city-wide festival which uses culture, creativity and community to inspire local people to take action against climate change. Charlie is joining with Transition by Design, an architecture and design co-operative to talk about sustainable architecture…
This Thursday Charlie will be a guest speaker at the NaCSBA Right to Build Summit being held at the NSRBC in Swindon. The summit provides a unique insight in to the current and future prospects for the custom and self-build…
The AA School of Architecture are holding an exhibition, Walters Way: The Self Build Revolution , about the work of Walter Segal who developed an iconic self-build method in the 1960s. Focusing on the work of the Lewisham self-builders of the 1980s, the exhibition is bringing together…