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18 February 1998
Announcing that the Greenwich Millennium Team, comprising Countryside Properties PLC, Taylor Woodrow, Moat House Group and Ujima Housing Association had won English Partnerships’ competition to create a 32-acre Millennium Village at Greenwich peninsula, Mr Prescott said:
"I hope this Millennium Village will lead the way to a new era in community development. As we move into the next century we need innovative, environmentally sensitive solutions to our housing requirements.
"The public are demanding less development in the countryside and more in urban areas. We must therefore find ways of attracting people back into our cities and towns to enjoy living and working together in thriving communities on what, before redevelopment were disused and under used sites.
"I believe the vision, principles, ideas and techniques embodied in this succesful Millennium Village scheme will help achieve this objective.
"It is an exciting opportunity to create a community built to the highest quality of architectural design, which embraces a mixed use approach and addresses environmental and energy conservation issues. The development aims to create a living community which will attract people from all walks of life to come and live on the peninsula."
Mr Presott continued:
"It is about creating an enduring legacy for the future as part of the wider Millennium project for the regeneration of the Greenwich Peninsula – to be built on a very large brownfield site.
"I am particularly pleased that part of the first phase of the Village will be built on time for the Millennium celebrations.
Alan Cherry, Chairman of Countryside Properties PLC commented:
"What an exciting Challenge to transform a virtually uninhabited, windswept, brownfield site, near the heart of what I believe is the greatest capital city in the world, into a place where people will want to live and work."
The successful Millennium Village proposal, submitted by the Greenwich Millennium Team, will create nearly 1,400 mixed tenure homes fully integrated with ancillary commercial and community space. The scheme is aiming for a massive 80% reduction in primary energy consumption through, for example:
- optimising solar gain and daylight enhancing features;
- efficient energy control systems within the homes
- improved insulation and thermal performance;
- the use of combined heat and power technology;
- utilising alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic panels and wind powered water pumps; and
- a network of sustainable modes of transport.
The winning consortium is targeting a 30% reduction in water usage through measures such as grey water recycling and dual flush WCs.
Mr Prescott said:
"These targets amount to world-leading performance in standards for efficient energy and water use. It is a pursuit of excellence and use of best practice that will help make the Millennium Village a showpiece of environmental sustainability."
The winning development intends to achieve a 30% reduction in cost and a 25% reduction in project duration through utilising modern manufacturing processes off site, together with the use of steel and timber frames.
The housing proposed involves a mix of tenures, fully integrated with each other throughout the development and with supporting business, retail, education and community space as well as a network of sustainable modes of transport.
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Information correct as at 18/02/1998