An eco-friendly development of affordable homes is helping families on lower incomes to save energy and reduce living costs.
Pottery Cottages is a £780,000 development of six three-bedroom homes for affordable rent at Codnor Park, Ironville.
The homes, supported by funding from the Homes and Communities Agency, include a range of energy-saving measures including solar panels with special temperature sensors.
Pottery Cottages was started by a private developer, with the homes earmarked for private sale. But after the recession forced building work to stop, we joined forces with the developer to complete the homes and offer them for affordable rent, to help those in housing need.
The move meant the original developer, Thomas Griffiths, was also able to create new employment at the site by taking on a young apprentice.
All the homes at Pottery Cottages exceed level 3 of the Code for Sustainable Homes.
