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Villa launch success at Harbourside

THE LAUNCH OF the most
eagerly anticipated properties in
Bristol resulted in three of the
unique properties being reserved by
house hunters wanting to live next
to the city’s historic Áoating harbour.
Called The Villas, the town-
house properties are part of
Crest Nicholson’s Harbourside
development and form the centre
piece of The Crescent.
Unlike anything ever seen in the city,
the Àve-storey houses are located
on the edge of the quayside giving
owners a unique position in the
heart of Bristol and within walking
distance of the vibrant city centre.
Each of these distinctive new homes
has a rooftop sun room giving views
of the harbour, ss Great Britain and
surrounding countryside.
With Áoor to ceiling windows natural
light Áoods the living space. On the
ground Áoor, the open plan kitchen
leads to a spacious dining area.
The living room is on the Àrst Áoor
as well the main bathroom and
further room which could be used
as a study or bedroom. The second
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with dressing room and en suite plus
a second bedroom.
Susan Young, sales and marketing
director said: “The Villas are our most
exclusive properties yet at Harbourside.
The size and quality of the homes is
unlike anything else in the city and like
all properties at Harbourside there is
the added attraction of living next to
the Floating Harbour.
“Harbourside living is all about
a lifestyle, not only do you have
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are fantastic and there is a real sense of
community in the area.”
Described as the most impressive
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the area historically known as Canon’s
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More to see for apartment buyers in Bristol

IF you’re looking for a chic and
contemporary apartment close to the
city centre, Redrow’s new venture in
Filton is a must see.
The award-winning housebuilder will
be opening a new view apartment at
Tallsticks, part of its Cheswick ‘village’
development, to showcase the size and
layout of the stylish new homes.
Hayley Zaple, area sales manager for
Redrow Homes (South West), said:
“When buying an apartment ‘off
plan’ it’s important that purchasers
have the opportunity to experience
how the layout could work for them.
With this in mind, we are inviting
home hunters to view the completed
design before they decide to buy.
“Our view apartment has been Àtted
with carpets, curtains and light
Àttings but left as ‘blank canvases’
so buyers can imagine how they
would put their own unique design
stamp on the homes.”
The ‘Pensford’ apartments, priced
from £141,995, have a choice of two
two-bedroom designs and suit a range
of buyers, including professionals,
couples and downsizers.
The apartments could also provide a
great return for investors looking to take
advantage of the close proximity to the
University of the West of England and
the MoD’s Abbey Wood site. Bristol
estate agents Ocean recently assessed
the potential rental values for the
properties at Tallsticks and calculated
that the ‘Pensford’ apartments could be
let for between £695 and £725 a month.
All homes at Tallsticks are being built
to Level 3 of the Code for Sustainable
Homes, which means they include
special features designed to keep
water and energy usage to a minimum;
this will hopefully translate into lower
bills for home owners.
Tallsticks is one the individual
‘hamlets’ that make up the new urban
village of Cheswick, north of Bristol.
Others include The Bowery and
Aurora Spring, which feature more
traditional looking, mostly detached
homes, whilst Tallsticks caters for
those wanting something more
modern in its approach but still built
to the same high quality standards.
Cheswick is just a few miles from
the city centre, close to Parkway
train station and within easy reach of
the M4 and M5 motorways, so it’s
a great location for those travelling
out of town. Four-bedroom homes at
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from £285,995.
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How much is enough?
Nigel Humphrey
THE PUBLIC are increasingly familiar with the
issue of climate change, but they still need
advice on what they need to do. The short
answer, according to Nigel Humphrey, is,
‘reduce consumption as quickly as possible’.
Many of my clients express a wish to
be more sustainable efÀcient, and
evidently feel a responsibility to do so.
The problem for me in the past has been
that I couldn’t tell them exactly what they
needed to do. I wasn’t really sure what to
aim for, how much they should reduce their
CO2 production, or how effective any of the
measures I proposed might be. Above all
there seemed to be very little available that
could provide an objective measure of where
they were already or the effectiveness of
whatever they proposed to do.
Now armed with more objective
information and tools such as Ecotect1 and
Personal Stepwise, I can answer them better.
If they want it I can produce an energy
efÀcient home or building, but I also know
that even if I design it to be zero CO2 this will
only have made a third of the real savings
required if they are anything like the average
UK inhabitant. these savings will mean
making lifestyle changes.
A relationship with clients can be a very
fragile thing and suggesting to anyone that
there’s something wrong with the way they
choose to live their lives feels very risky. I’ve
debated with colleagues about how to have
this conversation or even whether to or not,
and several believe that it’s safer to stick with
what they’re being paid for, the building.
I try to talk to clients about this because
I believe that generally people aren’t aware
that their lifestyle is such an important
element. However, I do so in a very
apologetic way, stating that I’m presenting
information in response to their question,
‘how much?’, so that they know what the
choices are and can decide for themselves.
One easy way of being prepared for their
questions and answering my own was to
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carry out a my own to answer was how
much energy and C02 do I need to save?
There’s been a lot of discussion about what
are acceptable levels of greenhouse gas
emissions and the general scientiÀc consensus
is that the global mean temperature
rise needs to be kept within 20C. The
UK government has set a target a 60%
reduction by 2050 on the amount of CO2
equivalent greenhouse gas emissions into the
atmosphere, which is Àne, but we’re nowhere
near achieving that and in any case this
level of reduction is calculated to give only a
30-50% probability of success. To have a 90%
probability of success greater reductions need
to be made more quickly, 80-90% by 2020.
I then needed some way of modelling
the house and my lifestyle that would make
it possible to measure my existing CO2
production and look at ways of making these
reductions. There are quite a few thermal
modelling programmes around which can
deal with the space heating for buildings but
my favourite is Ecotect. It’s designed for use
by architects, , is reasonably accurate, the
results are easy to understand, the modelling
process relatively simple, and it doesn’t cost
a lot.
Programmes for measuring lifestyle
CO2 production are rarer. The most readily
available that I came across and certainly
very easy and quick to use is Personal
Stepwise (PS) from Best Foot Forward. This
uses Ecological Footprinting (EF), to calculate
personal consumption and quantify the
amount of land used to support a particular
lifestyle and the amount of CO2 produced.
Consumption impacts are divided into
Àve components; nourishment, (food and
where it comes from); shelter, (housing and
surroundings); mobility, (travel); goods,
(waste and construction); and services,
(such as health, education, entertainment,
and commercial service based activities,
restaurants, ofÀce, schools, and hospitals).
My house was built in the 1930’s and
bought by us in 2002. The ground and 1st
Áoor are cavity wall construction built off an
earlier masonry basement which is dug in
to the hill on the north elevation and level
with the garden to the south. Since moving
in we have made various alterations bearing
energy efÀciency in mind. These included
increasing the area of south facing glazing,
improving the heating system by installing
a gas condensing boiler, adding under-Áoor
heating and insulation on the basement and
ground Áoors, weather compensated controls,
increasing the insulation to the attic, and
providing a lobby to the main entrance on the
north elevation. The existing windows were
double glazed thermally bridged aluminium
sashes Àtted into the original oak sub-frames.
They wouldn’t be my Àrst choice but are
well sealed and relatively new, so they stay
for now. New windows and doors to the
basement are FSC semi-hardwood, with
low-e, argon Àlled double glazing.
Once this had all been modelled and the
energy consumption checked against the
typical 12 months gas and electricity bills the
results were added to the ‘shelter’ component
of a PS analysis.
I hoped that the results would show
some reduction from the UK average and
gratifyingly they did, a bit, from 11 tonnes of
CO2 per person per year to 7.2 tonnes. The
changes to the house played a part in this,
but perhaps controversially the electricity
element has been counted as coming from a
renewable source because the supplier insists
that it does, and it isn’t nuclear. Our lifestyle
has changed to some extent in order to make
savings. The percentage of farmed meat in
our diet has been reduced. More food is being
bought locally from the fortnightly farmers
market and from a local organic cooperative
delivering fruit, vegetables and milk. We’ve
chosen to live in the centre of town within
walking distance of the work, shops, schools,
and other amenities which reduces the need
to use the car, we never travel by air, but very
rarely use public transport.
Scenarios for making reductions of 60%
and 80% on the UK average CO2 production
were modelled in the programmes, choosing
measures which were thought to be the most
cost-effective both Ànancially and in terms
of quality of life. The 60% scenario included
reducing further the percentage of farmed
meat and Àsh and increasing the percentage
of food bought locally at the farmers market,
(including condiments such as butter and
preserves), as well as assuming that we
could repeat some of the frugal habits of
our parents and reduce the amount of food
wasted. Looking at where and when our
cars are used it seemed feasible to assume
a 16% reduction which could be achieved
by choosing to walk more and using public
transport for some longer journeys.
In the ‘shelter’ component the cavity walls
are insulated and the underÁoor heating
zone temperatures were reduced to 190C
assuming that though we might have to
wear more clothes we could get used to it
because the temperature is so constant with
the underÁoor heating and good controls.
We could also reduce the energy used
heating water by taking showers more often
instead of baths and reducing the hot water
temperature at the boiler to 500C.
Electricity consumption could be further
reduced by cutting out the stand-by loads for
the VCR’s and televisions assuming that we
can develop the habit of turning these off
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when not in use. All lighting was replaced
with low energy alternatives and use of
the tumble dryer restricted to winter only.
The amounts entered for waste to landÀll,
recycling compost were reduced slightly to
reÁect an increased effort on our part and
the recent extension of the already excellent
Mendip District Council recycling scheme to
include composting. Other measures were
considered such as further insulation to the
attic, external insulation, or improving the
existing glazing, weren’t cost effective.
The result of all of this was a production
per person of 4.1 tonnes of CO2 and an EF
of 2.97gha (global hectares). This could be
achieved relatively simply by the sound of
it, but a year and a half later we still haven’t
put it all into practise, particularly the travel
part.
The further measures needed to reach
an 80% saving don’t get easier. The
modelling did get down to 2.1 tonnes
C02 per person per year and a footprint
of 1.96gha per person per year, but this
required assumptions and changes which
would very often be considered high cost or
are only likely to happen if there is sufÀcient
governmental pressure and Ànancial
assistance. For instance not everyone would
want to become a vegetarian or could
Ànd the time or space to be growing any
signiÀcant portion of their food at home. The
travel component was reduced assuming
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that nearly all local travel would be on foot
or by bicycle, and that legislation could be
introduced making employers responsible
for the CO2 element of all work related travel
and that as a result greater attention would
be paid to the possibilities of home-working
and video conferencing. Solar water heating
is used to reduce energy consumption but
at an average cost of £3000 per household
this must be considered a high capital cost,
and other renewable options such as wind
power or wood Àred boilers carry similar
cost. The ‘goods and services’ components
were reduced assuming that waste would
be reduced due to legislative pressure
forcing a change in attitude by suppliers
and manufacturers, and that savings would
similarly be achieved across the service
sectors.
It wasn’t necessary to be at the lowest
possible level in every component and the
relatively high impact of a carnivorous diet
and large house could be compensated
for by making greater efforts in other
components.
Many of the lifestyle savings are actually
available quite quickly and at relatively low
cost, both Ànancially and in terms of quality
of life, but despite knowing why we should
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but when the Ànancial or time cost is high
we’ve generally failed to do anything.
If either of these targets is to be reached,
lifestyle changes will play an important part,
and have to happen whether your energy
source for electricity is renewable or nuclear,
and your car runs on bioethanol or you walk
everywhere.
Which brings me back to why I think that
I should answer the question, how much
is enough? The information usually made
available to individuals is too general and
divorced from the responsibility or effects
of individual actions. How many people
have any idea what their personal C02
production is or the quantitative beneÀt of
actions which they may choose to make?
Suggestions which might provide this
information, such as the annual allocation of
‘personal carbon credits’, have so far been
dismissed as politically unworkable, but
clearly there is not yet enough in the way
of carrots and sticks to drive the savings
forward. In their absence all I can do is to
present clients with this simple and reliable
information as early as is possible, in the
hope that they will decide to try to live more
sustainable lifestyles, as well as building
more energy efÀcient buildings.
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Building for a Future magazine Spring 2006
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