NEWS ARTICLE: A new community of eco-homes is to be built in Norfolk designed by the man behind the Habitat chain.

(BBC News, 6 March 2008, www. news.bbc.co.uk )

Design guru Sir Terence Conran has developed the 22-home Drayton Hamlet, to be built in a clearing in woodland, north of Norwich.

The homes will have solar-powered hot water, toilets flushed with rainwater and triple glazing.

The three, four and five bedroom houses are expected to go on sale for up to £500,000 when complete...

...Norfolk-based Abel Homes, which are developing the properties, described the development as a "green hamlet" and said the homes will be level four on the six-levelled Code for Sustainable Homes.

Level six - zero-carbon homes - will be mandatory for all new homes built in the UK from 2016.

For more information please contact: Emilie Lemons, Conran & Partners: cp@conranandpartners.com

March 2008