Community Hall

Persimmon's community hall looks better in colour with a few illustrative trees behind it. It will have neither a tin roof nor a turf roof (turf roofs are looking a bit yellow at the moment according to MW). Most the meeting was updating with news of the Phase 2 application going in soon and phase 1 being approved in the near future.

I asked about environmental standards for the community hall. These will be to Breeam ' very good'. BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) is the leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings. It sets the standard for best practice in sustainable design and has become the de facto measure used to describe a building's environmental performance.

There is an 'excellent' standard that should be aspired to I believe but additional funding would be needed to upgrade. I will be asking the PC to investigate those extra costs and establish whether there are funding streams that could help bridge the difference. In simple energy costs good design will pay for itself and water conservation will become vital in the future (another dry summer looming).