Development at Ashton Rise to benefit from ground source heat pumps
A new housing scheme in Bristol is to feature ground source heat pumps as part of a programme to save 30 tonnes of carbon over the homes’ lifetime, compared with using individual gas boilers.
Bristol city council’s Ashton Rise development of 133 homes, built using the SIG I-House offsite system, will all be heated by a system developed and currently being installed (pictured) by Kensa Contracting which uses ground source heat pumps connected to a series of boreholes.
The 113-home scheme, being developed by Wilmott Dixon, will feature a number for private sale units which will help finance around 50 affordable homes as part of the council’s pledge to deliver 800 affordable homes by 2020 as part of a target of 2,000 new units.
The Ashton Rise homes will be a mixture of two, three and four-bedroom houses, and one and two-bedroom apartments.
David Broom, Kensa’s commercial director, said Bristol’s move to a low-carbon alternative six years before a government deadline ruled out the use of fossil fuel systems in new-build homes “should be viewed as the new benchmark”.
“Bristol’s plans to become carbon neutral by 2030 are ambitious, yet by adopting the low-carbon and low-cost approach used at Ashton Rise, we wholly expect the city to make huge strides to achieving its objective,” Broom added.
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