14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this month, Massachussets announced that it was to spend some $50 million on getting ready to face the natural disasters that climate change and global warming would harbor. By the looks of it, similar initiatives are underway in the United Kingdom.
Thus, news from this part of the country says that an 850-home climate change-proof village is to be built on the edge of Lake Lothing in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Due to the fact that the area where this village is to be erected risks being hit by severe global warming- and climate change-related floods, the 850 homes will not be built on the ground.
On the contrary, they will rest on pillars that architects and specialists expect will make them less vulnerable to said natural disasters.
According to initial drafts, the homes will sit at a distance of about 3 meters (about 9.8 feet) above the ground. Specialists say that, because of this, they will be pretty much immune to floods.
Interestingly enough, it would appear that this climate change-proof village is to be built on an existing brownfield site, i.e. a patch of land that has previously been used for industrial or commercial purposes.
All in all, this climate change-proof village is expected to cover an area of about 900,000 square feet (roughly 83,612 square meters).
Besides the 850 homes, it will encompass a yacht club, a primary school, a commercial center, cafes, and public open spaces.
“The scheme has been designed to encourage new wildlife into the neighbourhood and also includes a comprehensive cycle network, along with generous shared amenity space and a new public square at the heart of the scheme,” Click Green details.
“The development will provide 850 private and affordable new homes comprising terraces, mews, townhouses and apartments, each with varied typologies that respond to their locality within the site,” the same source explains.
The company in charge of implementing this project is called Assael Architecture. For the time being, information concerning when work on the project will be completed (or even begin, for that matter) has not been shared with the public.