New affordable 'ultra-low energy' apartments among the first in the country
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukA new block of flats set to be built in Salford will be among the first 'ultra-low energy' schemes of its kind in the country with 100 pc affordable apartments.
The nine-storey building with 96 flats in Chapel Street would be the biggest Passivhaus project in Greater Manchester, and one of the largest in the UK.
The development has been designed using the principles of the Passivhaus Institute in Germany to create comfortable homes which require little energy.
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It would be one of a limited number of Passivhaus-certified social housing schemes nationwide and the first of this scale in the North West.
The site, which was home to stalwart store Shalimar, faces Salford Cathedral.
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