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Originally created on: Thursday 22 February, 2007
press release 22 February 2007
Carbon neutral development gets go-ahead
Planning permission has been given to build the world’s first One Planet Living community development at the Brighton Station site.
The One Planet Living (OPL) project is jointly run by the World Wildlife Fund and international sustainability organisation Bioregional. It aims to enable people to live within a sustainable ecological footprint, taking responsibility for their consumption of resources. Bioregional and the WWF hope to establish five OPL communities worldwide by 2009, with Brighton & Hove to home the first.
The scheme was given planning permission at a meeting of Brighton & Hove City Council’s planning committee on Wednesday (21 Feb).
Chair of the planning committee Cllr Les Hamilton said: “This is a very special development and I’m very proud that Brighton & Hove is part of this global project and not only that, but we will have the very first One Planet Living community in the world. It will put both our city and our country on the international environmental map.”
The theory behind OPL is that the development agrees to adhere to the OPL principles of zero carbon and zero waste.
The buildings themselves are constructed to the highest standards of sustainability using innovative techniques and the people and companies who move into the offices and apartments are then helped by Bioregional, who acts as a ‘green caretaker’, to live as sustainably as possible.
The area of the station site in question is known as blocks E-F and bounded by New England Rd to the east, the Clarendon Centre to the north, the newly built Fleet Street to the west.
Block E will house a building of ten storeys which will contain 109 apartments on the upper floors, 681sq m of business space on the ground floor and 972 sq m of community space on the first and lower ground floors. The roof will have sky gardens, allotments and wind turbines.
On Block F a six storey building will be constructed containing 63 apartments on the upper floors, 535 sq m of business space on the ground floor, a biomas boiler in the basement to heat the development and a communal garden for residents at first floor level.
Bioregional will be working with developer Crest Nicholson to build the project. They have agreed to put funds towards supporting the local infrastructure, including:
- £105,000 towards recreational space
- £100,000 towards education
- £60,000 towards transport
- £25,000 towards public art
Work is due to begin before the end of the year.
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