Youngs Homes wins LABC Excellence Award

The first scheme of Low Energy "GreenGauge" Affordable Housing Constructed by Youngs Homes has won the coveted 'Best Social or Affordable Housing' Award at the 2009 LABC East Anglia Building Excellence Awards.

The 15 sustainable houses at Lingwood in Norfolk are unique being real homes designed to beat current energy standards whilst delivering low cost in use to tenants and the operating housing associations.

The University of East Anglia is monitoring tenants’ energy use and evaluating the success of a range of technologies at Lingwood, including ground source heat pumps, solar collectors and PVs, Sunspaces and Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery.

The scheme at Lingwood is a Constructing Excellence Demonstration Project and in 2008 received an award from CPRE Norfolk for demonstrating that new rural housing can be environmentally friendly.