UK’s largest timber structure neighbourhood secures green light
Posted: Monday, February 19th, 2024
Campaigning development company Human Nature has secured planning for a 685-home riverside estate conceived, built and operated on circular principles and community-first thinking, Construction Enquirer reported.
The Lewes-based company, which was founded by former Greenpeace directors Michael Manolson and Jonathan Smales, has called on a dozen architects to design the UK’s ‘most sustainable neighbourhood’.
Its visionary project, known as the Phoenix, will transform a former industrial site in Lewes, East Sussex and is being promoted as a design template for towns in the future.
Buildings will be constructed from engineered timber, with prefabricated cassettes made from local timber and biomaterials such as hemp.
Where possible, existing materials from the site’s industrial past – including cladding, steel trusses, bricks and buttresses – will be salvaged and repurposed or reconstituted.
A key part of the green village design focus leads a shift away from reliance on private vehicle ownership to creating safe streets for walking, cycling, and wheeling.
Instead, the village will use a co-mobility hub that incorporates electric-car share, car hire and car club, electric bike service and a shuttle-bus facility.
The Phoenix was masterplanned by Human Nature’s in-house design team, regenerative design agency Periscope, and Kathryn Firth, director of masterplanning and urban design at Arup.
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