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Living Villages is a housebuilder dedicated to creating sustainable, low-carbon, eco-friendly communities through good design and basic, tried and tested principles. The ‘villages’ have an established feel and are based on a ‘sense of place’ - conviviality, neighbourliness and a feeling of belonging - underpinned by environmental consciousness.

Living Villages builds well designed, energy-efficient homes using the latest technologies and sustainable materials, thus ensuring a greatly reduced carbon footprint and encouraging a more environmentally aware lifestyle. But this is only the start. The core tenet of Living Villages’ thinking is that sustainability is achieved through the way in which homes are clustered and interact, using a ‘higgledy-piggledy’ design that creates interest, influences and inspires the community, people and relationships and, therefore, the way in which resources are used.

Living Villages ‘live’ because people feel right about the place through three distinct levels of involvement: the wider community, the ease of interaction with others in an intermediate ‘doorstep’ setting and the carefree enjoyment of relaxing in a personal space. Quite simply, a living village is one that works for the people who live within it, the people who visit it and the environment. 

Living Villages’ determination to create a village-like and neighbourly environment - ‘a sense of place’ - has been spawned from years of research by The Living Village Trust. It is based on the premise of establishing secure and identifiable neighbourhoods in which people can relate to where they live and with whom they live, while feeling safe both inside and outside their homes.The overall effect of this is a sense of community and a building of trust and eco-friendly values amongst residents, all working together towards the goal of reducing carbon emissions.

Living Villages began life as The Living Village Trust, set up in 1993 with the aim of researching and building houses and neighbourhoods that are both eco-friendly and convivial to live in. The Trust actively researches how to design inspiring places by looking at successful examples around the world, new and old, which have the qualities that matter. The Trust also participates in talks, seminars and workshops to share what has been learned with others and learn from people involved in similar fields. Now, having actually built such places, Living Villages can see how important it is to design and build in a way that encourages people to interact and share resources in a real community spirit. By engaging in the community, people are more likely to live in a way that benefits society both socially and environmentally - this approach is key to reducing carbon emissions.

Living Villages Holdings (LVH) was established in 2006 to create Living Villages schemes nationally in response to huge public and industry interest. In early 2007, city financing was secured from the AIM-listed fund Low Carbon Accelerator plc, which specialise in funding the growth of promising companies in the environmental and ‘low-carbon’ sector. With this financing, LVH has rapidly expanded, appointing new senior management and staff experienced in the housebuilding and regeneration industry.

LVH already has a number of projects in the pipeline nationally which range from smaller villages of 25 houses to exemplar, new-town regenerations of hundreds of homes. These projects place Living Villages at the forefront of the Government’s drive for meeting housing demand with truly sustainable new communities. LVH operates from three offices covering the South-east, South-west and the Midlands, and is also active in Scotland where a number of projects are coming forward.