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AggieCycles Join an Check their open times & turn up to be welcomed by the host. Trelawney Rd Car Park, AggieCycles There is no booking system. St Agnes tour of Green Map and property listings Doors properties for Some places are just open for specific tour times. will be posted at truly green experience. AggieCycles hub during When visiting look out for the Green Open Door logos event. For departure times & route: St Agnes Green Doors is a Transition St Agnes project contact aggiecycles.com Jump on the minibus to save 07976186537 Also posted at you hassle and save fuel. For up-to-date and extra info on hub. events go to our facebbok page: For details of Minibus departure time & StAgnesGreenDoors Want to car share? Post on: properties visited, see or email us. St AgnesGreenDoors W transitionstagnes.wordpress.com Also posted at hub. www.cornwallpublictransport.info Fascinating ‘diy’ features whether youre an eco house See inside a wood pellet boiler 1 enthusiast or complete green lifestyle novice 7 Kids go green here: A play cabin from reclaimed materials Have a go! Bring thin material: 4mm plywood, leather, 8 2 cardboard & make something cute or crazy Result! Renewables meant that gas 9 bills were less than £240 last year 3 Cream teas & books to browse in tipi Never heard of SIPs? Find out here May 2015 cost the owner just £6 to run household 10 4 energy and charge car to drive 600 miles 11 How to extend with the planet (and your comfort) in mind 5 All timber grown or salvaged in Devon/Cornwall 12 Hear about crowd funded renewable energy in action Get stuck in! Cob brick making workshop A renewable energy company walks the talk: 6 at 1pm Suitable for all ages. 13 What they’ve installed in their own premises 1 Satyananda, Skinners Bottom, TR16 5DZ 2 Re-form Furniture, Conileigh, Skinners Bottom, 3 Birds Wood, Nr Mount Hawke, TR4 8BD 4 Stencoose Farm, Wheal Rose, Scorrier, TR16 5DQ Self built home. Completely off grid. Wind. Solar. Beautiful tree garden setting. Veg. Redruth, TR16 5DY Land based permaculture in progress. Wild and thoughtful. Carbon capture. Fantastic array of inventive solutions for greening old house (also relevant to new!) Inspirational and quirky sustainable lifestyle and build features. Stunning furniture with sustainability in mind. Aim: local manufacture using digital Building soil fertility with biochar. No dig. Bees. Forest Garden. Compost toilets. Solar water. PV. Thermal store. Battery store feeds day generated energy back at tools to empower communities and reduce CO2 transport emission. Solar. Edible & useful plants. Wildlife gardening. Raised beds. night. Wood pellet boiler. Sun pipes including plastic Sat 10-4pm Sun 10-4pm 07882347466 Tools forged on site from scrap steel, bamboo bike, top bar beekeeping, tree bottles. Lime plaster. Breathable paints. Homemade nursery. Woodland planted by Transition St Agnes. Sat 10-4pm Sun 10-4pm 07712600651 wooden blade wind turbine. Veg growing. DIRECTIONS: From Chiverton roundabout on A30 follow signs to Blackwater and turn right at the Sat 10-4 pm Sun 10-4pm 01209 890084 DIRECTIONS: From St Agnes head out on B3277 Truro Sun 11 – 3pm 07976306272 bottom of Smokey Joe's cafe signed to Skinners road but turn right towards Mt Hawke (if reach Bottom. At Crossroads turn right. After about 500yrds DIRECTIONS: From Chiverton roundabout on A30 follow signs Chiverton Cross roundabout gone too far). Go past DIRECTIONS: Stencoose farmhouse is on left down take next lane on the left opposite the two bladed to Blackwater. Drive through Blackwater and turn right at turning for skate park up to the cross roads at the top the lane (keep going!) next to Brian Etherington wind turbine. Follow this lane down the hill and to the bottom of Smokey Joe's cafe signed Skinners Bottom. of the hill. Turn left. After 500 yrds take first lane on Meats farm shop at Wheal Rose end. Turn right down bumpy lane next to the old mine. Continue up hill and go over crossroads (with converted the left on the slow bend with a small sign for Follow bumpy lane for about ¼ mile to end. chapel) then down hill for half a mile. Conileigh is on right. Penhallow farm. Bird’s wood is 50 yrds on right. 3 10 WHICH WILL 12 YOU VISIT? Look out for Green Doors logos on drives and lanes near properties. Phone numbers given for rural 11 places in case further 1 direction needed. 2 Assume room for parking unless stated otherwise. 8 7 4 9 ST AGNES 5 GREEN DOORS 11 23, Tregease Road, St. Agnes, TR5 0SL Extension using Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) for quick build OPEN DAYS time. Triple glazed windows for maximum energy efficiency. Sat 10 – 3pm DIRECTIONS: At St Agnes Bakery turn left to Trevaunance Rd. Left into Wheal Quoit Av. Left again. 5 Fourwynds, Chapel Porth, TR5 0NR 7 No. 1 Penwinnick Villas, Penwinnick Rd., St Agnes, TR5 0UG 9 53 Goonown, St Agnes, TR5 0XA Transformation of barn and home. Modern and ancient materials create low impact, low Old village house embracing sustainability. Solar PV. Solar thermal. Highly efficient wood 3 bed house built on tight budget but range of eco approaches. High consumption, long lived building. Cob dug from site. Exterior lime render. pellet boiler. Lime Mortar. levels of insulation and air tightness. Solar thermal. Lovely timber 12 St Agnes Sports Club, Enys Parc, St Agnes Interior clay plaster. Clay paint made by owners. Sheepswool and Eco growing area. cladding. Looking into heat pump. Stylish rainwater harvesting trough! Larger scale solar: Roof panels newly installed via community fundraising. superquilt insulate roof. PV solar. Local material sourcing. Sat 10-4 Sun 10–4 Sat 10 – 1pm Sat 10 -12 Sun 10 -4pm DIRECTIONS: On the left by the mini roundabout just as you DIRECTIONS: Head out of St Agnes through Goonown, 53 is on left shortly after the park DIRECTIONS: With St Agnes Bakery directly ahead of you turn left into Trevaunance DIRECTIONS: From St Agnes head towards Chapel Porth (right at roundabout enter St Agnes. Park in village car park and walk back the (and old boat!). Road. Bear right (signposted Dobles Foods). Park 500 yards on the right. by Pizza shop as you leave village). After fork heading down to the beach go another 300 few minutes back to property. yds and the house is on the right up a short lane and has tall pine trees around it. 10 Heather Bank, Blue Hills, TR5 0RG 13 Natural Generation Units 2 & 3 Cligga Industrial Estate, 8 20 Castle Meadows, St Agnes, TR5 0UB New-build with Structural Insulated Panels. Very airtight. Quick build time. ‘Mechanical St. George's Hill, Perranporth TR6 0EB 6 Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Chapel Hill, Porthtowan, TR4 8HL Complete eco retrofit on 60’s semi creating a beautiful contemporary home. Ventilation & Heat Recovery’ system supplies 70% heating requirements. Triple glazed Renewables company go green internally with PV & Solar Thermal. Eco buildings & projects on 42 acres of organic land. Sustainable timber builds, wind External Wall Insulation, Triple Glazing, Heat Recovery Fans. Solar PV and DIY Solar windows. Commercial wood pellet boiler. Hear about impact so far. power, earth oven, community garden scheme. Largest rammed earth build in UK. Thermal. Learn what to ‘diy’ and when to call in experts. Sat 10 – 3pm Sat Tours only: 10 am & 11.30am Sat 10-4 Tours 11am & 3pm Cob making demo 1pm Sat 10 – 2pm DIRECTIONS: From Wheal Kitty, head towards Trevellas. Turn left down lane just before DIRECTIONS: Office is located on the coast road just to the West of DIRECTIONS: From St. Agnes head along coast to Porthtowan. At turning into Porthtowan DIRECTIONS: In St Agnes turn left off British Road into Castle you drop down steep hill to Trevellas Perranporth at the top of the hill out of the town (left coming from St (on your right) continue straight on up the hill. Where road levels out take the 1st left Meadows. No.20 is on the left after 100m. Limited parking in Agnes). Turn towards the Cligga Industrial Estate. Parking is 100yds signed Mount Pleasant Ecological Park. cul-de-sac. Park in village car park or try British Rd. up the road on the right..