Some new houses being built in York would cost 83 per cent less in energy bills, it has been revealed.
Passivhaus, a type of energy-saving home first built in Germany in 1991, can slash annual energy bills from £800 to £133. Some 600 Passivhaus homes are being built off Burton Stone Lane in the Clifton area of York, 60 per cent of which will be affordable and 40 per cent will be market price. There will be a range of one-bed flats, as well as two-bed, three-bed and four-bed houses available when building finishes in the summer of 2024.
“What I think we’re creating here is something for the future, for our children to be able to grow up in environments where they’re healthier they’ve got a really nice place to live. “And there’s more of the financial security of knowing what their fuel bills are going to look like. “At the moment I think we are living almost not daring to open the fuel bill when it arrives because you have no idea what it’s going to be. “That should take some of that anxiety out and I just think it’s amazing.
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