News Howgate Close has advanced the process of decarbonisation at a settlement scale. The Nottinghamshire village of Eakring was once the country’s largest inland oilfield. It now generates locally, sufficient renewable to power the village several times over.
News Civilisation is in the midst of a transition to a post-hydrocarbon era. Dial Corner provides an opportunity to adapt to this emerging future. The future challenge is to live without resort to fossil fuels for power, transportation and heating. To decarbonise our homes we need to operate them free of their reliance on fossil-fuels. Read more “A Unique Property: Dial Corner Building Plot For Sale”
News Howgate Close is a standout eco home project located in the picturesque countryside of Nottinghamshire. Learn more about the story behind it by watching the interviews in this video, or read our previous article on the project for further details. Read more “Interviews at Howgate Close Eco Homes”
News Dial Corner is an innovative building project to create a fossil fuel free dwelling in Norfolk, creating an opportunity to construct in a totally different way and create a home with no energy bills and in harmony with the natural world.
Read more “Developing Dial Corner: Building Tomorrow’s World”
News In this update video, Dr Jerry Harrall discusses the Howgate Close eco home project at the CLA 2021 National Conference, held in Westminster, London. Read more “CLA Guided Tour of Howgate Close, December 2021”
News CLA’s 2021 National Conference ‘Towards Net Zero’ (QEII Conference Centre on Thursday 2nd December at Westminster) provided an intense 6.5hrs, over 5 sessions, delivered by 14 speakers with 550 delegates in attendance listening to “a font of pragmatism”. Read more “Local Homes For Local People: Howgate Close”
News Perhaps nowhere in the UK is the process of decarbonisation at a settlement scale more apparent in the built environment than in the Nottinghamshire village of Eakring. Once the country’s largest inland oilfield, it’s now generating enough renewable electricity locally to power the village several times over. Seventy years after the last drop of oil was extracted, Eakring is expanding with nine fossil-fuel-free homes, ‘Howgate Close’. Read more “Eakring, Nottinghamshire: A Story of Transition”
News “By practical example, to act as a catalyst for change towards ecologically sound and sustainable ways of living.” That’s an excerpt from Hockerton Housing Project’s (HHP) 1995 Mission Statement. The designers of Howgate Close for twenty-four years have been living an autonomous lifestyle in the UK’s largest collection of earth-sheltered dwellings. Read more ““…ecologically sound and sustainable ways of living.””
News 4th August 2021
‘Howgate Close’ offers many solutions, not least attending to recent issues raised by the European Environment Agency.
