Our housing development at Fairglen gives you a good start to eco living but here are a few other tips you could use during the xmas period to reduce your carbon foot print

1. Turn off your fairy lights when you go to bed and don't leave appliances on standby
2. Leave your car at home and walk to the local shops
3. When you buy batteries for xmas this year invest in rechargable ones
4. Use solar powered outdoor fairy lights
5. Buy recycled christmas cards and send e-cards
6. For your xmas tree buy from a local substainable grower
7. Don't forget to compost your food scraps, if you are short of space you could purchase a worm farm

The well-established Resident’s Association held one of their regular meetings last week at the adjoining ‘Melting Pot’ café in Krowji, the Old Redruth Grammar School, and were pleased to welcome new members of the community and local business Petrolab are shortly to relocate into the offices adjacent to the Edwards Apartments, Gweal Pawl.

Despite the downturn in the property market, the majority of the houses are now spoken for - move quickly if you are still interested! As for the ‘new build’ flats and apartments, there is just one, two-bed new flat available with a garage. There remains a choice of one- and two-bed apartments as well as four, live-work homes in the extensively-rebuilt Hospital buildings.

Following the stamp duty changes, a flurry of activity should see purchasers moving into their new homes for Christmas.

We are pleased to find out that Michael Gacca at number 12 in Fairglen, Hayle will soon be recieving cash for his electricity generated from a Percy Williams eco home.  Michael tell us that energy suppliers Scottish and Southern are now processing his application to provide both economy 10 tariff and a ‘credit meter’ which will return the surplus energy created from his PV roof cells to the National Grid.  All of this created from the sun and a green building design house.  Cash from the electricty companies............wouldn't we all like that!

Also at Fairglen phase 1 of our eco homes is now complete. Landscaping around the site is well underway.

The first thing to talk about is our new web site, recently launched giving you all the information about our latest developments.

On this blog we are going to be chatting about all sorts of happenings in and around cornwall and the community, housing market trends and some of the unique features of our houses.  We are passionate about green buildings so you will be hearing lots of news in this area. Hopefully this will give you more of a feel for what it is like to live in Cornwall and these properties.  Please use the comments section as we love to hear your thoughts on this as well.

All the best

The Team at Percy Williams & Sons