The Silverstone Residence an Ecological Home for a Working Man Heyrod, Tameside, Manchester
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The Silverstone Residence An Ecological Home For A Working Man Heyrod, Tameside, Manchester. Design & Access Statement October 2014 Contents We need a budget with housebuilding at its heart to kickstart Britain’s economy From The Guardian 17 March 2013 by Jack Dromey and Ed Balls Housebuilding is crucial to economic recovery. 100,000, less than half the number required to From the Depression of the 1930s, through the meet housing need. rebuilding of Britain after the second world war, Professional Team: to every recession since, politicians of all parties Three years ago, Labour warned the government Architectural Designers have recognised the need to build our way out of that by recklessly raising taxes and cutting economic crisis. spending too far and too fast, they risked putting Matthew SilverStone’s SelfBuild Home: Despite three housing launches by the prime the recovery at risk. We warned that cutting Biographies minister, David Cameron, and the chancellor, the housing budget by 60% would not only Reasons to self-build George Osborne, who have donned wellies be a devastating blow to housebuilding, the and high-vis jackets to go on building sites, construction industry and the wider economy, but The Site: and hundreds of housing announcements, also to the millions of families in need of a home. Location But they failed to listen and as a result Cameron housebuilding is at its lowest peacetime level Breif and Osborne have overseen the lowest level of since the 1920s. No wonder the country faces Consiltaion the slowest economic recovery in a century and housing completions compared with any other peacetime government since the 1920s. They’ve History the biggest housing crisis in a generation. While Views some measures have the potential to help, there put 80,000 construction workers out of work and has been little by way of new investment. The construction output has fallen by 8.2%. The Design: government has simply failed to learn the lessons We should look at ways to help young people who Amount of history. want to get on the property ladder and are trying Appearance and Landscape. In 2010, the government announced their to save for a deposit – for example, by looking at Access & Layout flagship housebuilding policy the “New Homes proposals for a Housing ISA proposed by the CBI Bonus”, promising to unleash growth and build at Habitats this week – and give first-time buyers a stamp duty Water management least 400,000 additional homes. In the following holiday on properties up to £250,000. Let’s bring Materials 12 months, both housing starts and completions forward long-term infrastructure investment in fell. schools, roads and transport to get construction Less than 12 months later, yet another “major” workers back to work and strengthen our Sustainable Development: housing package was announced as Cameron economy for the future. And to improve existing Why Build Eco homes declared that his “government is serious about housing stock, VAT on home repairs, maintenance Design Precedents rolling its sleeves up and doing it all it can.” This and improvements should be cut to 5%. included a £10bn guarantee scheme which, while Matthew Silverstone welcome, has yet to deliver a single penny of These measures would boost growth, get builders support for housebuilding. It took the government back to work building the homes we need for the six months to release details of the scheme and future and create apprenticeships for the young. it won’t open to receive bids until April this year. Britain needs a radical budget for homes, jobs and And last year housing starts fell by 11% to below growth, not another false dawn. Jack Dromey MP - While Shadow Minister for Housing SilvermanHome Heyrod p2 Foreword by The Last Shadow Government Minister for Housing © 2014 [email protected] © 2014 [email protected] Contents SilvermanHome Heyrod p3 The Professional Team Professional Team The Design Team AKAcommunity Deramore co-founded AKAcommunity and was Stephen co-founded AKAcommunity and has Architectural Designers the lead designer of the projects The Mount, initiated several community projects including an www.AKAcommunity.org The Invisible Home, and the Hurley House. He Arts Council funded project working with pupils was selected by UnLtd, as a social Entrepreneur, of Moulsecoomb primary and secondary schools Lead Designer: who give him a wide ranging support package in spatial activities to help them rediscover their Deramore Hutchcroft that allow him to have the very best advice from local environment. This has led on to engaging [email protected] Deutsche Bank and Debevoise & Plimpton who with Varndean School in a series of workshops or call 07590557381 support him in all his endeavours. From 2006 that will culminate in designs for a Self build he has worked for Birds Portchmouth Russum community hub. Stephen’s career started at Atkins Chorlton Plannning Architects in London. Working on projects Engineering Consultancy in 1992 working on an Planning Consultants including, but not limited to: Highlands Housing International project for the Russian and British www.chorltonplanning.co.uk in Jersey, which won the Royal Academy of Arts Departments of the Environment monitoring the Architecture Award in 2011, as well as Southwalk land contamination after the Chernobyl Nuclear Edge Structural Design Park School, in London. He has also worked disaster and subsequent fallout over the Lake Structural Engineers for Archi-Union architects in Shanghai, China District and North Wales. Whilst living in Wales he www.edgestructuraldesign.com for over a year working on a large mixed use also studied sculpture and worked with the land housing development in Shenzhen, as well as to create ephemeral sculptures in hard to reach Future Roofs the Qiandeng Villas in Jingsu, and a number of spaces using objèts trouvé. In 2005 he joined BBM Green Roofers schools and commercial projects. Architects working on many different houses in ForeverHome South Elevation, A Self-Build Eco home in Saddleworth, by Deramore Hutchcroft www.futureroofs.co.uk the Lewes conservation area. Stephen freelance designs for Andy Stone Bespoke Interiors creating Whitcher Wildlife Ltd unique stylish bespoke furniture and interiors Wildlife Consultants from the traditional to the contemporary. www.whitcher-wildlife.co.uk Josie is an authority on horticulture and author of High Efficiency Heating a number of publications on guerrilla gardening Mechanical and Electrical Consulatants and specialist in Seedbombing: an ancient www.hehuk.co.uk Japanese technique. She holds workshops in Seedbomb making, seed science and garden building with communities nationwide. Most recently in Hyderabad, India she worked with underprivileged children and constructed a vegetable garden, planting wildflowers and edible plants. Her ethos is working with nature to improve our surroundings. Horticulture Publications by Josie Jeoffery Residential Bespoke Kitchen by Stephen Millard SilvermanHome Heyrod p4 The Design Team Examples. © 2014 [email protected] © 2014 [email protected] The Design Team SilvermanHome Heyrod p5 The Self-Builder Why i want to do this project. I Matthew Silverstone was born and raised in house to be a central showpiece for my company Stalybridge and with the exception of moving as I aim to tile the entire downstairs and outside away to university I have lived here all my life. balcony areas giving it a light airy and clean Most of my family live in the area and it is upon Mediterranean feel. a small piece of family land, which was passed down to me, which I plan to build my home of The floors will then be heated from a natural choice and settle down in the village where my underground green efficiency heating system family have always lived. supplied by a close friend of the family Andy Baxter whose company, High Efficiency Heating UK Ltd. I would love nothing more than to be able to settle Once completed I aim to redo my portfolio and down on the land that I grew up playing hide n web pages based around images of my house seek and feeding chickens with my grandparents. showcasing our tiling capabilities diversity and To do this eventually with children of my own underfloor heating systems! It would also enable and let them have the experience of growing up me to hold meetings with high end clients such in a rural discreet environment staying close to as the Wetherspoon’s contractors, as this currently the rest of our family is all I could wish for. feels impossible to do in my mill workers mid terraced house. I run my own tiling business which allows me to be financially comfortable but with the economic I currently live with my girlfriend of 2 years Charlie climate as it is and the way the housing market whose family also reside in Stalybridge. She works is I would find it near impossible to have the with children and is currently taking a course to opportunity to live in such an area if I was unable become a full time teacher. We have recently to complete the build myself. I want to make discussed having children and agreed it not the build as eco-friendly as possible and near on practical in our current home but is something we invisible to nearby properties as I want to live as both want very much and to be able to give them green a lifestyle as possible and pass this passion the best possible start in life. This opportunity onto my children. My intention is therefore to would not only be a dream come true but would create as minimum an impact on the surrounding also allow us to begin our own little family which is landscape and environment as possible. As something that you cannot put a price on. I hope this would be a once in a lifetime opportunity I so much to be able to keep the land in the family envisage living out my life in this property.