Plans
Planning Report: 12/01/2010
A meeting with all the necessary departments at Herefordshire Council including Conservation, Highways, Planning, Licensing and Building Control has left us with a feeling that as long as we are very sympathetic to design and scale then a suitable development would be allowed.
Following these discussions we have decided to design a pavilion style building constructed of local sustainable timber and insulated to a very high standard, the timber building will need to be linked to the original by means of a reclaimed brick/glass construction, however the final detail is yet to be agreed, a plan of visual ideas will be posted soon on website and at pub notice-board.
In addition to the fabric of the building we intend that many environmental and sustainable technologies will be included in the design. These include:
- Ground/Air source heat pump for the primary heat, thus negating the requirement of Oil/Gas boiler.
- Heat recovery plant from the beer parlour store, all surplus heat to find its way to a central accumulator, 2500 litres of varying temperature hot water.
- Underfloor heating and sympathetic block low level radiators.
- Rain water harvesting and storage for toilet flush.
- Hot Water Solar heating, providing additional hot supply to accumulator.
- Large open fireplace with back boiler and stack collector for hot water.
- We are also hopeful of utilizing a system of Photovoltaic cells to generate our own electricity.
In addition to all this we want to increase insulation, draft-proofing and low energy lighting where appropriate. All of this will enable us to meet our own desires of creating a carbon neutral village pub.