Launch of new Sheffield city Council net zero carbon homes

The Star, Sheffield

Coun Douglas Johnson, chair of Sheffield City Council’s housing policy committee, speaking at the launch of a new net zero carbon homes development in the Woodseats ward. Video: Julia Armstrong, LDRS

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00:00So, Douglas Johnson, Chair of the Housing Committee on Sheffield Council, this is a brand new council house that we're in, isn't it?

00:08And it's a bit special, so can you tell me what you're feeling about today and what's special about this house?

00:14So it's really nice to see this new council house being opened up today.

00:19It's incredibly impressive. I haven't seen this before.

00:22This is a lovely house and I'm so pleased with a few tenants moving into it later this month.

00:27This is a new build, completely net zero home.

00:31It's good quality, it's light, it's spacious, it's warm, it's comfortable, it's safe.

00:37This is great. This is the thing we want to aspire to for our tenants.

00:41Our tenants deserve this.

00:43It's going to be used for accommodation, for people who might have been through an unsettled period of their lives.

00:49The whole scheme is going to have support from our council staff.

00:53And it's about giving some respite, a safe and secure home to people who really deserve something like this.

01:01We've got really good quality here. We've got a really nice new kitchen here.

01:05This is great.

01:07It's good to see modern fittings, modern appliances.

01:11You know, a really nice landlord here.

01:15You know, proper triple glazed patio doors.

01:18Plenty of light coming in.

01:19I love the light here. I love the high ceiling.

01:22And it's going to be a really nice place for people to feel that they are at home in.

01:27And so this is really important as well, because this is good for the council.

01:31This means that we show that we can produce completely new homes out of the council's housing stock that are net zero.

01:41This is really important. It shows the way it can be done.

01:44Now, it's been quite stressful to get these in between us.

01:47We've learnt a lot along the way.

01:49Yeah.

01:49But I hope that we can draw these out and have more of these across the city.

01:53And these are manufactured and then put together on site, aren't they?

01:57It's not sort of traditional bricks and mortar construction.

02:00It's not traditional at all, no.

02:01So this is a modular construction.

02:03That means that all the elements of this home are constructed in very clean conditions in a factory, brought to the site and assembled here.

02:13But this is good quality construction.

02:15And they're very, very solid.

02:18It's got the feeling of being very solid.

02:20So there's nothing loose or cheap about this.

02:24This is good quality stuff.

02:27And within this, we've found this is the standard of construction that you get.

02:33Factory produced and not built on site in wet and windy conditions.

02:37So that's really pleasing.

02:38This is very much housing for the future.

02:41Fantastic.

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