PLUS GREAT Eco Open FRINGE Houses EVENTS! Worthing & Adur · 9–26 April 2020
See our community in action – people and organisations using less fossil fuel, saving water, creating less waste and taking better care of our world!
www.ecoopenhouses.org Organised by Transition Town Worthing Welcome!
elcome to our fifth Eco small part of the solution, rather than WOpen Houses event across be part of the problem. Worthing and Adur spanning nearly Whether you think man-made climate three weeks in April from 9th to change is a hoax or not, perhaps you 26th. Transition Town Worthing is care about pollution of our air, water, delighted to be supported by our coastline, green and urban spaces, sponsors – The Rampion Fund at or that micro plastics have now Sussex Community Foundation and entered our food chain. You might be Worthing Homes, as well as our team concerned about local surface water of partners. flooding or the rising cost of water and Everybody’s talking about fuel bills. This event looks at all these climate change issues and more. Do we feel overwhelmed by it all? We hope you will find this event As individuals, how can we make a interesting, informative, inspiring, difference? Will it help the bigger helpful and fun. From complex picture? How can we be the change systems to simple changes anyone can we wish to see in our world? make, there’s something for everyone. This event is about ordinary people Fringe events this year include in Worthing and Adur just getting on an electric vehicle show, talks, with the job, often having fun (it can visits and a workshop – all in be!) and inspiring others to take small, addition to the twelve eco open achievable steps towards resilient, homes. For more details about environmentally friendly lives. They the open homes see our website don’t have all the answers, but they worthing.greenopenhomes.net – have made a commitment to be a or visit the houses!
Contact the Transition Town Worthing Eco Open Houses team at [email protected]
2 3 Whats On Fringe events Eco open houses Thursday 9 – Sunday 26 April Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 April All fringe events are free apart from the boat trip and David Attenborough live Open houses do not have to be booked in advance but some have tours that start on screening, but all need to be booked in advance (except the Repair Café). See booking the hour. See the house page for details details on the event’s page. page page Visiting and opening times 13 Visiting and booking information 6 Energy and water saving features 14–15 Thu 9 April Site visit to Biffa Mechanical Biological Treatment Centre, Map of houses 16–17 Horsham 6 1 46 Beechwood Avenue, Worthing, BN13 2HS 18 Sat 11 April SNUG draughtproofing workshop, Sidney Walter Centre 7 2 Maybridge Keystone Centre, Raleigh Way, Worthing, BN12 6JD 19 Tue 14 April Site visit to Viridor Recycling Plant at Ford 7 3 30 Pevensey Road, Worthing, BN11 5NS 20 Wed 15 April Talk on sustainable tree planting by Tony Whitbread, retired CEO 4 Henry House, 189 Heene Road, Worthing, BN11 4NN 21 of Sussex Wildlife Trust at Emmanuel Church Hall, Worthing 7 5 51 Northcourt Road, Worthing, BN14 7DT 22 Thu 16 April David Attenborough live screening at Connaught Theatre, 6 62 Northcourt Road, Worthing, BN14 7DT 23 Worthing (book via Worthing Theatres) 8 7 39 Downlands Ave, Worthing, BN14 9HD 24 Sat 18 April Site visit to EPIC wetlands project, Sompting 8 18 Archibald Road, East Worthing, BN11 2SL 25 and then on to Sustainable Sussex site, also in Sompting 8 9 62 Sompting Road, Lancing BN15 9LD 26 Sun 19 April Boat trip to Rampion Wind Farm 9 10 Rena, The Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 5NJ 27 Mon 20 April Site visit to Splashpoint Pool, Worthing 9 11 325 Upper Shoreham Road, Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 5NB 28 Wed 22 April Talk by Sarah Kemp from Eskay Architects at Shoreham Centre 10 12 14 Juniper Walk, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 6JE 29 Thu 23 April Talk by Francesca Iliffe, Adur & Worthing Council Strategic Sustainability Manager, Worthing Town Hall 10 Other information Fri 24 April Site visit to Splashpoint Pool, Worthing 9 Zero waste 30–31 Sat 25 April Meet the repairers at Worthing Repair Café 11 The Eco Open Houses team and Thanks 32–33 Sun 26 April Electric Vehicle Show with stalls from community groups and eco organisations, Lancing Beach Green 11 Sponsors 34
4 5 processes in the whole of the UK. We are Fringe events WORKSHOP sure you will find a visit to Viridor’s site at Snug Draughtproofing Ford really interesting. For information on Apart from the Repair Café, all fringe Sat 11 April · 10am – 12noon what happens to residents’ recycling, see events need to be booked in advance. Sidney Walter Centre, Worthing the website www.recycleforwestsussex. See the Eventbrite link below for most of org/ford-mrf/ the event booking details. The EV show Booking and details on Eventbrite The tour can take up to 14 people and if has its own Eventbrite page and the Transition Town Worthing will be demand is there, we can organise more Connaught Live Screening needs to be delivering a free draughtproofing than one visit later. (Not suitable for booked via Worthing Theatres. See their asthma sufferers or disabled, due to dust TOUR workshop in this Victorian building, pages for details. teaching practical skills and using a range particles and narrow walkways – sorry.) Biffa Mechanical and of different draughtproofing materials so Visiting Biological Treatment you can select the best material for the TALK job. Please see details listed under each event Facility Trees: to plant or not to for information about that event, the Thur 9 April · 11am – 1pm Draughtproofing your home is likely to site, etc. We go into more detail on the save around £20 a year on energy bills. plant, that is the question booking page on Eventbrite, which you Brookhurst Wood Warnham, near Horsham Safely blocking disused chimneys can Wed 15 April · 7.30pm – 8.30pm can read before making your booking. save an additional £15 a year. Emmanuel Church Hall, Please do read all information very Booking and details on Eventbrite carefully as some sites have specific rules The workshop will be hands on, with Worthing the opportunity to practice installing about who can or cannot be part of that What really happens to all that black bag Booking and details on Eventbrite tour, for example. rubbish? draughtproofing on the community centre’s draughty windows, helping them A talk about sustainable tree planting by For all booked events, you will not be On this free tour of Biffa’s waste to lower their costs and carbon footprint. Tony Whitbread, retired CEO of Sussex admitted unless you have proof of your treatment site at Brookhurst Wood you Spaces are limited, and this workshop will Wildlife Trust. There will be 30 minutes for booking with you (phone or paper copy can find out where your waste goes. be most beneficial to homeowners with discussion afterwards. please). We need this for health and West Sussex has some of the most state- draughty timber framed windows and/ safety reasons. of-the-art waste and recycling plants or doors. Carbon offsetting with trees is something and processes in the UK, which help to many people do these days, but it’s not Once you have made your booking, dramatically reduce the volume of waste actually that simple and one can destroy please take note of any requirements for going to landfill. Some of us took this TOUR precious existing eco systems by planting visiting that site. Wheelchair friendly sites tour two years ago and found it really trees inappropriately. will be indicated by this symbol: Ford Materials Recycling interesting and informative. The tour can Facility Tony will give a bit more background to If you need to cancel your booking take up to 20 people and if demand is forest ecology before going into why, please give us as much notice as possible, there, we can organise more than one Tue 14 April · 10am – 12noon how and where it’s good to plant trees, or as there may be people on a waiting list visit later. Ford Road, Ford not, to help mitigate climate change. who can fill your place – some of these For information about the waste site, events have very limited places. Booking and details on Eventbrite You can read more on Tony’s views on go to: www.biffa.co.uk/about-us/waste- the subject on his website: Once you’ve put your recycling in the bin, journeys/mechanical-and-biological- tonywhitbread.blogspot.com EVENTBRITE BOOKING treatment where does it really go? www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/ West Sussex have some of the most state- transition-town-worthing of-the-art waste and recycling plants and -29435819407
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TOURS EPIC and Sustainable Sussex Projects Saturday 18 April 10am –1pm (arrive 9.30am) Sompting Booking and details on Eventbrite These two very sustainable land-based, community projects sit very near to each BOAT TRIP SITE VISIT LIVE SCREENING AND Q&A other in the landscape at Sompting so Rampion Wind Farm Splashpoint Leisure Centre, David Attenborough: A life this tour will cover both sites, as well as Sunday 19 April Worthing on our planet the work of Plastic Free Worthing, as EPIC are currently working on plastic pollution 10am – 1pm or 2pm – 5pm Mon 20 April · 7.30pm – 8.30pm Thurs 16 April · 7.15pm issues. Sets off from Brighton Marina or Connaught Theatre & Cinema, EPIC stands for ‘Enhancing Places, Inspiring Booking and details on Eventbrite Fri 24 April · 11am – 12noon Union Place, Worthing Communities’. This urban chalk stream For those of us who have always wanted Booking and details on Eventbrite Book through Worthing Theatre box restoration project is realigning the course to see the offshore wind farm up close, office: of the Broadwater Brook to enhance its Site visit led by Duncan Anderson, CEO Website: worthingtheatres.co.uk/ ecological potential. On completion the site now’s your opportunity! The skipper for South Downs Leisure. show/david-attenborough-a-life-on- will become accessible to the public for the our trip, Paul Jackman of Brighton Boat Many people in Worthing don’t realise our-planet-12a/ first time, enabling people to connect with Company, is very knowledgeable about that their local swimming pool complex Telephone: 01903 231227 this natural heritage along a river trail with the wind farm, having watched it being is a state-of-the-art eco-building. This seating areas and a wildlife viewing hide. constructed and commissioned. This will be a poular event – book now to tour includes a visit to the plant room Plastic Free Worthing do monthly beach avoid disappointment. Trips to the wind farm only run on calm (some people really love plant rooms!) and greenspaces clean-ups that anyone can days, for passengers’ comfort, as we and a talk about South Downs Leisure’s We have included this in our fringe take part in. will be at least 8 miles out to sea. In events as it just happened to be showing existing operations and future plans. You Sustainable Sussex provides meaningful consequence, a planned trip will only be during our three week event and it ties will also have an opportunity to meet real-work experience in gardening, confirmed 24 hours in advance of the in really beautifully with the themes that one of the directors of Worthing Honey growing, DIY and other sustainable tasks. departure. In the event of poor weather, we are trying to raise awareness about – Collective, who have beehives on the They provide education and employment the deposit can be used to reserve so much so, that some of the organising roof of this amazing building! to people who find access to the workplace another trip, or it can be refunded. team booked our tickets as soon as we More info on the Eventbrite booking difficult, including those with learning For your comfort, there is a cabin and heard about it! page. disabilities and other needs, reducing toilet on the boat and refreshments are Facebook: www.facebook.com/ isolation and encouraging interaction with a available. events/217689259259800/ varied section of society. For more information see: brightonboat. www.somptingestate.com/EPIC co.uk/rampion-windfarm-trip/ EVENTBRITE BOOKING oart.org.uk/epic/ www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/ sustainablesussex.org/ transition-town-worthing www.facebook.com/plasticfreeworthing/ -29435819407
8 9 TALK TALK VIEWING ELECTRIC VEHICLE SHOW Domestic Energy Retrofit Adur & Worthing Councils: Meet The Repairers at EVs By The Sea for a Climate Emergency going carbon neutral by Worthing Repair Café Sun 26 April · 10am – 4pm Wed 22 April 2020 · 6pm – 8pm 2030 Sat 25 April · Drop-in 2pm – 4pm Lancing Beach Green Shoreham Centre Thurs 23 April · 6pm – 8pm Quaker Meeting House, Organised by Sussex EVs 34 Mill Road, Worthing Booking and details on Eventbrite Worthing Town Hall Book on eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evs- A whole-house, phased approach to Booking and details on Eventbrite NO NEED TO BOOK by-the-sea-2020-attendee-free- reducing your home’s carbon emissions. Talk by Francesca Iliffe, Strategic Transition Town Worthing set up a tickets-95617635923. Based in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sarah Kemp Sustainability Manager, Adur & Worthing Repair Café in September 2017 and it 2020 will be a big year for electric set up Eskay Architects in 2004 and works Councils. has become incredibly popular, with our vehicles with over 20 battery electric volunteer repairers often completing 40+ with homeowners and developers on In 2019, Adur & Worthing Councils declared vehicles and 10 new plug in hybrid repairs in one session. extensions, renovations and conversions. a climate emergency. Work is underway vehicles launching in the UK. With tax Specialising in creating comfortable and across the council to go carbon neutral. Do feel free to pop in and chat to one breaks and wider availability now is the energy efficient homes. She is currently What does this mean in practice and of our repairers during the afternoon time to look at going electric. training to become a Retrofit Coordinator what challenges do the councils face to session. There will be a few booked Sussex EVs will be at the event to answer under PAS 2035. (PAS is the New Publicly achieve this target? This talk is relevant for repairs going on, but we’ve mainly Available Specification that lays out all the many questions surrounding electric organisations and individuals who want to set aside this time to talk to Eco Open vehicles. Come along to this free event retrofit energy efficient enhancements reduce their climate impact. Houses visitors about what we do. to the UK’s existing housing stock). http:// and talk to real owners who can tell you eskayarchitects.co.uk/wp-content/ Francesca worked to co-create the Zero Please do not bring repairs along to this what life is like owning and living with uploads/2016/10/DSC_9322_crop_bw- 2030 Climate Conference on 4 March in session – repairs can only be done with these vehicles. There will be stalls from 768x544.jpg Worthing with Pauline Cory from TTW and advance booking. other local community groups and eco Michelle Furtado from Worthing Climate organisations as well. We’ll have activities See worthingrepaircafe.org for more Action Network (WCAN). for the kids and maybe a prize or two! details about how this community EVENTBRITE BOOKING Sustainable Adur & Worthing Framework: resource normally operates on a monthly This event is on the level but it takes www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/sustainable-aw basis and how you can get involved. place on grass. Much more info about the www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/ event and Sussex EVs on their Eventbrite transition-town-worthing booking page. -29435819407
10 11 Need help getting on top Eco Open Houses of your energy bill? Visiting Visits to the venues are free thanks to the kindness and generosity of the Not to worry, we're here to empower you to take control property owners. Please be respectful at all times and observe some basic rules: • Opening times are generally 10am–1pm and 2pm–5pm – but not all houses are Come along to one of our drop-in advice surgeries. We can provide you open both days or both sessions. See below. Please do not visit between 1pm-2pm as this is a lunchbreak. with information, guidance and sign posting on: • Some houses have informal tours that last up to one hour. See below or house pages • Switching energy tariff or supplier to get a better deal; even changing for times. If you turn up late you may only be able to complete part of the tour, as the your payment method could help you save. householder might like a break between tours. • At some of the houses you may be asked to remove your shoes. • Eligibility checking for Warm Homes Discount, Priority Service Register • Please take care if a house is in the process of having building work done. and/or the Energy Company Obligation. • Children must be supervised by an adult at all times. • Low cost energy efficiency measures for your home, business or • Sorry no dogs (please ask the householder about guide/service dogs). • We encourage everyone to travel by sustainable means. Suggestions are listed with public space. each house, or plan with Traveline South East – www.travelinesoutheast.org.uk Attend our free, impartial consultation sessions: • Wheelchair friendly venues will be indicated by this symbol St Paul’s, 55b Chapel Rd, Worthing BN11 1EE Opening times every Wednesday between 10am and 3.30pm All venues are closed 1pm–2pm for lunch. Tours are on the hour and last up to an hour. For details see the venue page in this brochure or the website: worthing.greenopenhomes.net Sat 25 Apr Sun 26 Apr Venue AM PM AM PM page 1 46 Beechwood Avenue tours 2–5 18 2 Maybridge Keystone Centre open 10–1 2–5 19 Powered by Transition Town Worthing 3 30 Pevensey Road open 10–1 2–5 10–1 2–5 20 visit us at www.ttworthing.org 4 Henry House open 10–1 2–5 10–1 2–5 21 5 51 Northcourt Road open 10–1 2–5 22 6 62 Northcourt Road open 10–1 23 7 39 Downlands Ave open 2–5 2–5 24 8 18 Archibald Road open 2–5 25 9 62 Sompting Road tours 2–5 10–1 26 10 Rena, The Street tours 10–1 2–5 27 11 325 Upper Shoreham Road tours 10–1 2–5 28 12 14 Juniper Walk talks 10–1 2–5 29 *and surrounding areas 12 13 Water and energy saving features
Green roof Grey water recyclingLow water goodsRain garden Rainwater harvesting Air source heat pumpBiomass boiler Cavity wall insulationDraughtproofingElectric car chargingFood growing Ground floor insulationHeating controlsLifestyle changesLow energy appliancesLow energy lightingLoft insulation (270mm+)Natural materialsPowerwall batteryRenewables Solar PV Solar thermal SWI external SWI internal Zero waste
Water saving VENUE PAGE WATER SAVING FEATURES ENERGY SAVING FEATURES Green roof 1 46 Beechwood Avenue 18 A roof that absorbs water, influences variation and 2 Maybridge Keystone Centre 19 biodiversity and is created from a waterproof membrane 3 30 Pevensey Road 20 covered with a growing medium and vegetation. 4 Henry House 21 Grey water recycling Collecting waste water from 5 51 Northcourt Road 22 sinks, showers and baths and 23 reusing it for toilet flushing or 6 62 Northcourt Road watering the garden. Grey water 39 Downlands Ave 24 is waste water that has not been 7 mixed with sewage. 8 18 Archibald Road 25 Low water goods Taps, showers or toilets that 9 62 Sompting Road 26 are designed to use less water than typical plumbing fittings, 10 Rena, The Street 27 typically by aerating the water. Rain garden 11 325 Upper Shoreham Road 28 Creating a ‘rain chain’ with as 29 many opportunities as possible 12 14 Juniper Walk to catch, store and use rainwater allow you to generate heat energy – preventing it from becoming more likely to use them. Typical Low energy appliances from solar or from the grid and the sun helping to minimise your from the surrounding air. The runoff into storm drains. This controls include thermostatic All appliances are rated from A makes it available on demand. water bills over the long term. pump needs electricity to run, but relieves potential flooding radiator valves for each radiator, to G, with appliances rated A to Renewables Solid wall insulation (SWI) it should use less electrical energy whilst enhancing one’s garden. room thermostats – and A+++ for refrigeration using the Switching to a company Solid walls can be insulated than the heat it produces. Rainwater harvesting programmers, which enable more least energy. Washing machines that sources its energy from externally or internally. Walls Biomass boiler Collecting water that falls on control. and dishwashers are also rated for renewable sources is easy these are usually insulated externally Wood-fuelled heating systems, a roof and using it at home for Ground floor insulation the amount of water they use per days. Transition Town Worthing by fixing insulation boards to also called biomass systems, burn washing clothes, flushing a For suspended floors, mineral cycle. provides an energy switching the wall and then finished with wood pellets, chips or logs to toilet or watering the garden. wool or rigid insulation boards are Natural materials service – see page 12. rendering or cladding. Walls are provide warmth in a single room or installed between beams. For solid Products that come from plants Solar PV internally insulated by fixing rigid to power central heating and hot Energy saving floors, rigid insulation board is or animals – including sheep’s Panels usually mounted on a insulation boards to existing walls water boilers. placed on top of the solid floor and wool insulation, sweet chestnut south-facing roof that convert or by building a stud wall filled with Air source heat pump Draughtproofing under a finishing layer. Installing cladding, sustainably sourced sunlight into electricity. Electricity mineral wool or equivalent which is Air Source heat pumps are Lots of heat is lost through thicker carpets and/or insulated timber paints and clay plaster. generated using PV panels used then dry lined with plasterboard. a great sustainable energy draughts so this is a priority for carpet underlay may also help Natural materials tend to be more to attract a payment known as the Zero waste alternative for heating saving money. Typical draughty reduce draughts. sustainable than artificial materials Feed in Tariff (FIT). Addressing the issues of single your home. Working like a areas of a house include chimneys, LED lighting and allow breathability and Solar thermal panels use plastics, fast fashion, food refrigerator but in reverse, they loft hatches, windows and doors, A very low energy form of lighting movement of moisture. Using the sun’s energy to directly waste (including composting) and around skirting boards and floors. (light-emitting diode) which uses Powerwall battery heat water. Can be a flat plate recycling. Energy controls For more detail of the work significantly less energy, is long- Powerwall, with built-in battery system or evacuated tube system. Heating systems with simple done on each venue see the lasting and cheap to run. LEDs inverter, is a rechargeable home This system allows you to have controls in an accessible place can case studies on our website are now available for most light battery system that stores energy heated instant water directly from be more efficient as people are www.greenopenhomes.net fittings.
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