Only 18 kilometers from Oxford is located Elmsbrook, the first eco community from England consists of 393 houses. This is, specifically, part of the project Northwest Bicester (NW Bicester), the country’s first green city to be closed with a total of 6,000 homes. Construction on Elmsbrook began in the spring of 2014 and the first residents moved in mid-2016.

There, that aesthetic really greenthe bus carries solar panels, all of its roofs are solar energy and clean, and if there is anything in abundance on its streets, it is electric bicycles, cars and motorcyclesgreen area, etc.

The first Elmsbrook residents moved into their homes in Phases 1 and 2, while Phases 3 and 4 were built as part of a joint venture project with Nicholson’s Peak. We must remember that the first phase will have 40% green space, cycle paths and pedestrian paths, and all garages will also have grass roofs.

The project promoter is a company A2Dominions and local government, ie Cherwell District Councilalthough relying on contributions from various companies specializing in sustainability and environment such as bioregionala company that provides advice on energy, waste, water, landscape, transport, green spaces and nature, and employment strategies.

For its part, architectural solutions have been provided AD architecturean employee-owned architecture firm founded more than 50 years ago works in the UK, Cyprus and India to create spaces inspired by people.

It Electricity is generated from photovoltaic solar panels in every home (34 square meters average per property) which, when completed, will make it the UK’s largest residential solar panel.

For his part, Heating and hot water come from the community’s own power and heat generators. The ambition, they explained from promoters, is to eventually use the residual heat from a nearby energy installation from Ardley’s waste.

With bicycle and pedestrian pathsbus stop 400 meters from every house, live schedule update in every house, electric vehicle charging point and electric car club, to encourage and inspire citizens to adopt sustainable mode of travel.

The community includes an elementary school, community center, green business center, and local neighborhood store, creating village feel. But not only that, too its citizens can enjoy sustainable commercial spacetrees for their fruit, to own and cultivate themselves community garden and share among all, as well as have space for their nests and have my own honeyin another aspect.

Developed city

elmsbrook it’s a communityan echo city within another large city, which was ahead sustainability and emission issues. In fact, it is the first city to achieve zero emissions, as marked UN SDGs and organizations like EC, even though they had achieved it decades before any other country in the world, because the goal of the whole world lies in 2050.

And that is it Northwest Bicester –with a motto ‘Thinking about tomorrow’–aims to “make sustainable and healthy living easy, attractive and affordable, while creating vibrant and resilient communities”. The plan is to develop a total of 6,000 houses with zero carbon emissions and a local center where there is a healthy living shop development.