Construction has started on what will be the UK’s third Community Heat Hub – a low carbon heat solution that provides heat and hotwater to residential communities via a heat network developed and designed especially for low-rise, low-density sites.
Taylor Wimpey Yorkshire contracted the solution from GTC for its Swinnow Park development in Wetherby – a first in the region for the housebuilder.
This is the second Community Heat Hub that Taylor Wimpey has contracted nationally from GTC – with the flagship site already delivering sustainable, low-carbon heat and hotwater at Chilton Woods, in Sudbury, Suffolk. The third development boasting a Community Heat Hub can be found at Vistry’s, The Gateway in Bexhill, East Sussex.
Taylor Wimpey’s Swinnow Park will deliver 762 homes, a mix of two, three, four and five-bedroom properties, which will all be connected to the Community Heat Hub, replacing gas across the whole site.
A GTC spokesperson, said, “We’re delighted to once again be working with Taylor Wimpey, delivering our zero-carbon, heat network at Swinnow Park. Our Community Heat Hubs answer the eagerly anticipated Future Homes Standard by reducing carbon emissions by 75-80% from day one.”
“The Future Homes Standard contains two notional specifications – heat pumps and heat networks. The Community Heat Hub combines these two specifications in one future-proofed, net-zero solution. It’s a privilege to be working with Taylor Wimpey to start creating cleaner, greener communities around the country.”
Sam Evans, Sales and Marketing Director at Taylor Wimpey Yorkshire, said, “As housebuilders, it’s important for us to embrace other forms of heating as part of the UK Government’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.
“In working with GTC, we believe this efficient solution is an innovative step forward by providing a single, large air source heat pump to deliver heat to our new homes through individual heat interface units, with no need for a gas boiler.”
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