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impact lifestyle activities.Wherever possible each ecologically sensitive development will include a farm shop s<strong>to</strong>cking locally produced organic food delivered by solar electric vans, a car pool incorporating a mixture of electric and LPG vehicles, a telecommuting centre for workspace, a combined heat and power plant run off urban tree waste, community composting schemes and on site childcare and shared sports facilities.Wherever possible all <strong>the</strong> above activities will be powered by renewable energy generated on site making <strong>the</strong> carbon emissions savings for <strong>the</strong> lifestyle initiatives as significant as those achieved by <strong>the</strong> infrastructure.These can be quantified for carbon trading purposes. Land requirements The standard house type produced by <strong>the</strong> developers can achieve around 100 homes per hectare with 3.5 habitable rooms per home.This makes it possible <strong>to</strong> meet <strong>the</strong> demand for around 4 million new homes by 2016 without substantial loss of agricultural land. By showing how high density urban renewal can be reconciled with high amenity - almost every home has a garden, a conserva<strong>to</strong>ry and carbon neutrality - <strong>the</strong> developers believe that for <strong>the</strong> first time <strong>the</strong> public can be offered a more sustainable lifestyle at <strong>the</strong> same time as improving <strong>the</strong> overall quality of life for most people.This is an important step for <strong>the</strong> green movement as it replaces <strong>the</strong> concept that green means self-denial and tries <strong>to</strong> refocus public attention on <strong>the</strong> dysfunctionality and waste integral in a typical suburban conventional lifestyle. Creating a new market requires new ways of developing sites The development process incorporates a number of innovative components.The experience is that <strong>the</strong>re is a strong public demand for <strong>the</strong> concept with sales achieving between 10 and 30 % premiums over <strong>the</strong> products of conventional volume house-builders in <strong>the</strong> locality.The innovative processes include: 1.The consultants act as <strong>the</strong> developer, and <strong>the</strong> normal developers profit is re invested in <strong>the</strong> carbon neutral specification.The consultants request only industry standard fees. 2.The overall profit from <strong>the</strong> development goes <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> landowner - often a local authority.This enables <strong>the</strong> authority <strong>to</strong> realise carbon neutral development on its own land and this could be a way of showing <strong>the</strong> private sec<strong>to</strong>r what is possible. 3.The developer and <strong>the</strong> landowner act as a partnership or joint venture.This means <strong>the</strong> developer can avoid <strong>the</strong> bank loan charges normally incurred by land purchase. Again this saving is reinvested in <strong>the</strong> carbon neutral specification. 4.The developers produce a multi disciplinary design service backed up by <strong>the</strong> consultants. 5. A proven range of standard house types is available for most sites - however one off designs will be appropriate for some locations.The more standard house types that can be used, <strong>the</strong> lower <strong>the</strong> design consultancy fees. 6.The developers market <strong>the</strong> new homes and workplaces using both conventional techniques and <strong>the</strong> web - with <strong>the</strong> objective of pre-selling all homes before construction is started. Zacchaeus 2000 Trust - <strong>Memorandum</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Prime</strong> <strong>Minister</strong> - May 2005 101
7. A show flat already exists <strong>to</strong> provide a quality indica<strong>to</strong>r for potential purchasers. 8.With presales achieved <strong>the</strong> developers negotiates loans <strong>to</strong> fund construction from <strong>the</strong> wide range of ethical investment companies. 9.The developer’s supply chain ensures that <strong>the</strong> innovative component costs are fixed and construction costs can be accurately predicted with an agreed programme. 10. A project manager is responsible for construction management. The developers believe that this type of ‘joined up thinking’ will deliver <strong>the</strong> kind of step change in environmental performance needed for <strong>the</strong> UK <strong>to</strong> meet its carbon emission reductions.The UK replaces its urban fabric at 1.5 % per year.This means that if appropriate steps are taken <strong>the</strong> UK built environment could be carbon neutral by <strong>the</strong> start of <strong>the</strong> next century. 102 Zacchaeus 2000 Trust - <strong>Memorandum</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Prime</strong> <strong>Minister</strong> - May 2005
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