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Tate+Co has been selected as the architects for a pioneering project to create 60 new sustainable homes in Knutsford, Cheshire.

This innovative housing scheme is the product of a special partnership between igloo Regeneration and The Crown Estate. It is one of several such groundbreaking developments that will total 200 homes in all, located across Cheshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

These demonstration projects from The Crown Estate are targeting ambitious embodied carbon levels of less than 300kg CO₂/m² and operational energy use at 35kWh/m²/year. The developments aim for a minimum 15% biodiversity net gain, on-site renewable energy generation, and alignment with the Passivhaus standard; promoting healthy and energy-efficient living.

They will create inclusive communities by engaging with local people, and the Knutsford project will create urgently-needed homes in the North West. It is hoped that the development will set a new standard in housing design that will inspire others across the industry – exploring new building materials, construction methods, technologies and cutting-edge design.

Tate+Co will act as the architects for the Knutsford project, working alongside the urban and rural place design practice Planit-IE, engineers and sustainability consultants  Useful Projects, transport consultants  SLR Vectos and the multi-disciplinary property and construction consultancy Calfordseaden.

Jerry Tate, Founder+Director at Tate+Co said: “We are over the moon to have been appointed on this project, as it matches our own ideals for the creation of great communities with the highest standards of sustainable design. The Crown Estate and igloo Regeneration have hugely ambitious targets for reducing carbon levels and creating nature-led design which are the kind of beautiful but thorny problems our practice has been exploring since our inception.”