How to create a sustainable home: PICKING THE RIGHT PLOT
A sustainable home will never be an off-the-shelf, mass-market design. It might look like one – that’s a matter of personal choice – but it will still be different. It might have features that don’t fit on the standard 400m2 building plot, or it might modestly sized, but break the mould in other ways.
The standard approach for the self-builder is to first find the plot – ideally a lovely rectangle of flat land on a quiet road, with neat hedges, views in all directions, easy access, and all the important facilities – then to
