Metropolitan Housing Trust and designer Anne Thorne Architects Partnership set out to create homes with a top level Excellent rating under the EcoHomes environmental measurement system with their small scheme of nine family houses at Angela Carter Close, a backland site in a conservation area in Brixton, south London. The houses are built from timber frame, insulated with Warmcell recycled newsprint insulation, have sedum roofs, solar thermal panels, and are surrounded by porous paving to plot an environmentally-friendly course for the future.
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