Why we should build more homes made of straw
JANE SLADE discovers that straw houses make ideal affordable homes for retirees Paul Chatterton, a geography lecturer at Leeds University, spent a lifetime pondering how to make housing sustainable and affordable before setting up the 20-home Lilac co-housing project...
Walk your way to an active life at Cliveden Village
Living surrounded by a walker’s paradise – 376 acres of National Trust parkland – makes Cliveden Village the ideal choice for a retirement property says JANE SLADE With over 110,000 members of the Ramblers Association across Great...
Wildlife adventures for Cotswolds retirees
A Cotswolds house builder has invited residents to take part in a community project to discover ‘wildlife treasures’ on their doorstep Cotswold Homes Ltd, whose Wildwood development of detached houses in Mangotsfield, South Gloucestershire is nearing completion, is...
Brits flock to buy new apartments in Chamonix
Attractive exchange rate lures British buyers to stunning new development in Chamonix Just a year after announcing plans to build what is expected to be rated as the first ever five-star résidence de tourisme in the French Alpine ski resort of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, the...
