{"id":1836,"date":"2025-08-15T07:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:46:07","slug":"times-of-london-inside-leeds-new-sustainable-housing-and-net-zero-neighbourhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"Times of London: Inside Leeds\u2019 new sustainable housing and net-zero neighbourhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>From co-housing projects to climate-positive districts, the city is leading the way in affordable, eco-friendly living<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-1024x575.png?resize=500%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?resize=1024%2C575 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?resize=300%2C169 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?resize=768%2C432 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?resize=800%2C450 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png?w=1500 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Sustainability sells. Nearly two-thirds of UK buyers say they are keen to purchase a sustainable home, with lower energy bills the biggest attraction, according to a recent survey by volume housebuilder Redrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there\u2019s a lot more to sustainable living than cheaper bills, says Paul Chatterton. Chatterton, 52, a professor of urban futures at the University of Leeds, is a founding member of pioneering Leeds co-housing co-operative Lilac (it stands for Low Impact Living Affordable Community), which put the city on the sustainable housing map more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/life-style\/property-home\/article\/inside-leeds-new-sustainable-housing-and-net-zero-neighbourhoods-8r55t2r55\">more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From co-housing projects to climate-positive districts, the city is leading the way in affordable, eco-friendly living Sustainability sells. Nearly two-thirds of UK buyers say they are keen to purchase a sustainable home, with lower energy bills the biggest attraction, according &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/?p=1836\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe6P8V-tC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arboretumcohousing.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}