This is the UK’s first earth-sheltered social housing scheme. It is CPRE approved. It has delivered affordable rented accommodation with energy costs of less than £5 a week (5 GBP) per unit. In an environmentally responsible design solution fit for the low-carbon economy, it relegates the threat of fuel poverty to the past for those most vulnerable to it.

Commissioned by the Peddar’s Way Housing Association under the auspices of the Flagship Housing Group, this housing scheme is a net- zero carbon emissions development.

HES is the subject of a Housing Corporation Innovation and Good Practice Award

Client: The Flagship Housing Group
Completed (below budget): 2004