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Crown Estate wins planning for 75 low-carbon homes in Hertfordshire
Dacorum Borough Council has granted planning permission for a 75-home neighbourhood at Westwick Row in Leverstock Green, brought forward by TOWN and The Crown Estate. The scheme combines a 31-home cohousing community with rental homes, 30% of them affordable, and targets all-electric, timber-framed construction with embodied carbon below 300 kgCO2 per square metre and operational energy use of 35 kWh per square metre a year.
Our readThe scheme's size matters less than what it signals. Cohousing and a fixed carbon budget look set to become the design brief for larger Crown Estate sites too.
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