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[PLANS + PROJECT DATA] Construction has started in Rainham, east London, on the first completely affordable housing development built to Passivhaus standards in the UK
Work has started on this £8.1 million housing scheme in the London Borough of Havering by Maccreanor Lavington, which is being billed as the first completely affordable Passivhaus development in the UK.
The scheme on a brownfield site formerly owned by the Greater London Authority in Rainham features 51 rented homes split into two rows of three-storey terraces and a row of two-storey terraces. The 5,493m² block is completed by an apartment building.
Backed by Circle housing group and Climate Energy Homes, the terraced houses have front gardens, 'upright proportions anddetails that allude to London's Georgian and Victorian terraces'.
Gerard Maccreanor of Maccreanor Lavington said: '[This scheme] is an example of how smart thinking, in design and build, can be achieved at reasonable cost and meet...