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James Newton explores what happens when we start to use ethics and sustainable design principles when we think about the neighborhoods and communities that we build.

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So as we are on the arts barge, I thought we start with him. Are this was a piece that was published in Permaculture magazine? On this is based on the novel on a sort of future ICO utopia. And what really like about this is that it's like reimagining a city. You can kind of recognize what city looks like from looking at it. But there's lots of other things in play there on what those things are is ethics, and that doesn't really usually apply to development ordinarily on. So what I want to talk about tonight is about permaculture on the idea of employing ethics into development on dhe, specifically community led development s Oh, yeah, because that's something that I think you can apply to the housing crisis. So thinking creatively about how we can tackle this issue on thinking about how can employ things that are sustainable, affordable and community led to build a more creative approach to tackling this particular issue, we'd stop doing this. This is the housing market forecast. Environmentally, we need to really think about how we do things and how we build things we need to de carbonized housing. We need to think more holistically on dhe circular about how we develop the housing. So we're thinking about Earth care. We need to think about creating homes that don't create waste. But there are low carbon in a construction. We want to be putting community at the heart of the neighborhoods that we build. We want to be creating spaces where neighbors can come together and share meals, music, food on that wants to be at the heart of kind of housing and developments that we build exciting. It's a really important thing that often gets lost when we're thinking about the kind of communities that we build, Um, thinking about fair share, thinking about making things more fair when we think about housing. Wait, we need to stop putting profit in S o. Yeah. We need to stop thinking we need to start thinking more about putting community first, putting profit second, So permit all traffic to talk about those. There's lots of principles that employed Thio strive to develop more ethical things, and there's loads of them that's just 12 here. But there's loads more in the permaculture world, and I'm gonna focus on a few of those and think about how you can use those principles in the design process To deliver ethical development, we need to be thinking about earth care. We're thinking about low carbon solution, so use invaluable value. Renewable resource is so build from biological materials or other petrochemical based materials on find New Way that we can start to de carbonized housing straw. This is a great material. This is material. You can use loads of this Nero's. We're surrounded by fields on. We can start bringing these materials into the city. We've got construction college in this city. We can start training the next generation of builders how to build this way. Ah, nothing. There's a real opportunity to If we're bringing these materials into the city, we can start thinking about how we can create a new economy around that. We know we can make York a vanguard for sustainable bio based construction. We can start creating a new economy for farmers while providing a new cohort of builders that can build with these types of materials. So we're not only creating sustainable construction, were also creating a new circular economy around these types of materials, thinking about community and people care. We need to integrate, not segregate. Let's stop doing these things are and start trying to harness the power of people that start trying to find ways that we can come together and make decisions about our housing collectively and not on a digital basis, because I think there's more power in that. If they're coming together and sharing our resource is, let's start thinking about how we can build a community whilst we're building communities that start getting people together meeting, sharing, food sharing experiences, skills, money, all kinds of things that start having a conversation about the kind of community want to build on that start to create a different model for delivering housing in our city. What we're talking about here we're talking about community led development. We're talking about getting people like the Council together, collectively putting together investors on grant funders to create a new mechanism that we can start to reel. Harness that power of communities to create more sustainable communities on dhe. So this is a new model that you can start to imagining rather than develop a lead. Let's start creatively in responding to the change that we have in the housing market in New York, specifically over a 20 year period in this century, our house prices rose by 300% and that's creating a big issue for people like me. People stuck in generation rent. We can't access housing. So I think we need to thought thinking creatively on applying this principle of creatively using responding to this change. One of these mechanisms is Herman ish it mutual homeownership. This is, ah, cooperative model. The way this works is that people can still accrue equity in the development. But what we do is they put down a deposit, then make their monthly repayments their crew shares in a housing development on when they want to leave. The only thing that he can't do sell those shares on the open market, so that allows us to create housing that stays out the market and more affordable. One of the biggest barriers that homeownership is tthe e deposits. If you don't have the bank of movement down, it's highly difficult for you to find your way onto the housing mother. So can we start thinking differently about how we can create a community, a company that can allow community investment to make this kind of housing more affordable to more people. So, luckily, that's already happening in York. This is a project involving called your space. So if you're interested in investing something like this, this is good news because we're already doing this. We're applying these principles, applying these ethics on we're gonna be doing. Michelle wants to fund our first development, which is gonna be in a come on. This is a project that's called low Field Green. This is our vision. 19 homes, a mixture of one to bed flats 23 and four bed homes. A community building that's for the residents, but also for the wider community. Lots of car free shared space all designed around these ethics and principles in a bio based construction materials, renewable energy, community growing space. You know, we've received prior permission this in the spring. We're looking to start on sites later in this year. We're partnered with a council to deliver this. All our homes are pretty much allocated now. They've all been prioritized people that are in housing need, or people that have a strong connection to the city. So, yes, we're really excited about this project coming forward. But what we want to do is is toe. Hopefully this kind of model can create a blueprint for future development. So we would want to think that this isn't a missed opportunity. So York Central is a fantastic opportunity to make this kind of development on a bigger neighborhood level. And so I'm really excited to think that this is something that we could potentially apply to this site here. So shall we finish it there? This is really excited about this kind of model of housing. And hopefully this is something that something that could be could be emulated across the city. More so. Yeah. Do come and speak to me. Do you go on the website signed up to be a member. We're looking for you to invest, always keen to make connections and more people in the city. So yeah, that's may

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Aug 1, 2019 410 0 James Newton explores what happens when we start to use ethics and sustainable design principles when we think about the neighborhoods and communities that we build. Expand to view full transcript So as we are on the arts barge, I thought we start with him.