Springfield Meadows
New build
Residential
Summary
This development of 25 homes in South Oxfordshire uses an innovative timber-frame construction system, which includes hemp and lime. Panels are manufactured off-site using natural materials to minimise embodied carbon and other environmental impacts and to create healthy, high-performance living environments.
Residents enjoy a site that is integrated with the natural environment and offers shared community spaces including a wildlife pond and orchard. Social value is created by this integration with nature and also by virtue of the mixed-tenure basis of the development, meaning homes for private sale sit alongside almost an equivalent number for social rent.
Key Features
- A mixture of tenure types in a small development: 9 homes for social rent and 16 for private sale
- The development targets ‘better than net-zero’
- Innovative off-site build-system uses all natural materials – timber, hemp and lime – to create a building which is a net carbon sink across its lifetime
- Homes also target Passivhaus levels of operational performance, aiming for net-zero energy consumption thanks to provision of on-site renewable energy
- The whole development also provides connection to nature with shared spaces and a focus on enhancing the natural environment for the benefit of residents and nature
Sustainability Indicators
- Embodied carbon, Healthy indoor environments, Natural materials, Nature connectedness, Operational energy, Ownership models
