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2.5: Social Housing
Kings Road Affordable Flats - for Havebury Housing Partnership
A three storey block of twelve social housing flats on the edge of the conservation area in central Bury St Edmunds. Built to Code level 4 + of the Code for Sustainable Homes, it is an exemplar of sustainable design combining timber construction, low technology M + E services and plant life which creates a beautiful low energy, ecological building. Full height planting screens support wisteria and clematis which give identity to the building.
Features include:
- Low carbon footprint
- High insulation levels using renewable cellulose
- Non mechanical earth pipe fresh air supply to all flats giving pre-warmed winter ventilation and pre-cooled summer ventilation
- Simple M + E Services
- One small boiler for all 12 flats
- Rainwater harvesting
- Extensive plant life adding cooling in summer
- Prefabricated timber frame construciton
- Timber cladding
