The Hockerton Housing Project is a small community of five earth sheltered homes on the outskirts of Hockerton, Nottinghamshire, UK.
The houses were designed by ‘green’ architects Professor Brenda Vale and Dr Robert Vale.[1] Low carbon living is facilitated through the use of renewable energy, the water system, food grown on site, and the community's approach to work and transport.[2]
The homes were completed in September 1998 after three years of planning and 18 months of construction, at a cost of about £65,000.[3] Two homes have since changed ownership on the open property market.
- ^ Energy Saving Trust, The Hockerton Housing Project: a case study
- ^ East Midlands Regional Assembly, "UK’s first earth-sheltered, self-sufficient ecological housing development", www.emra.gov.uk, last accessed 25 April 2009
- ^ Ecology Building Society, Hockerton housing: low impact living, http://www.ecology.co.uk/html/aboutus/casestudies/hockerton.htm, last accessed 25 April 2009