Arts & Crafts Eco Project

The Arts & Crafts Eco Project Ltd
Sustainable living & working for the future.
An experiment in re-new able energies, architecture & design in a working environment using sustainable materials, & living an organic lifestyle. Planting native trees & hedge rows with a wild flower meadow & growing organic produce.

Tony Geering managing director of Puritan Values Ltd welcomes you
"The Arts & Crafts Eco Project" , an experiment in sustainable living, to work in harmony with the environment to achieve a zero carbon footprint & an end goal of the eradication of utility bills, therefore giving an investment for & into the pocket of the working man through sustainable energy, banishing utilities which can normally cost thousands of pounds on a yearly basis, thus investing those costs back into the worker for ever more, something so important in these times of ever inflating fossil fuels which sadly we are still destroying our planet with.
The Arts & Crafts Eco Project has acquired four acres of land at the top of Sandy Lane in Holton. Halesworth. Suffolk, 10 mins from Southwold by the sea. Originally this old gravel pit & saw mill which we are converting into a sustainable working environment, with a particular focus on cutting edge 'Solar Energy', we have installed a 34.6kW solar panel energy system incorporating this technology & blending it with modern design & stylish architecture for a sustainable working environment in a working community. The project has a clean canvas & over the next few years we will be breathing new life & beauty in form & function into this idyllic site, in the true Arts & Crafts tradition following the genius & some of the ideals of William Morris who began to lay the foundation of 'The Arts & Crafts Movement' around a century & a half ago.
We want to work organically with the land & to harmonise with the environment, using as many sustainable materials that are possible, working closely with the planners, incorporating modern technology in Solar energy & rain water harvesting, to include an investigation into wind turbine & hydro-electric power, air source & ground source heat pumps & biomass boiler technologies employing the very best of those systems which are currently available. Our goal is to eventually power the whole site with renewable energy. Once the project is up & running we hope to build an eco visitor's centre showing the entire project in detail throughout it's journey, with information on all we have achieved & to simplify the actual mechanics of it all with a visual insight that people can see in use & working daily on this site, teaching all the benefits of alternative power sources, & organic growing & how we can all gain sustainable energy now & into the future, because the more we begin to use this technology the cheaper & more accessible it will become for us all.

Planning permissions for this ambitious project were fully passed by Waveney District Planning Offices in January 2011 & we started building the new showrooms in early December 2011 to be completed by the end of 2012, click on the above link : Roof, solar panel install & tree planting, & also on the eco project uplink above to see the design access statement & the plans for the new showrooms we have began to work on & to see our progress so far.

On December 12th 2011 the government cut the financial incentives they were offering from 43np to 21np for solar power producing on site electricity, aptly named Feed In Tariffs or FIT's which threw the solar panel industry into turmoil, it came quite suddenly & has now slowed an industry to a snails pace that before the December deadline was booming. The government lost 2 court cases which gave us the time to install our 34.6kW solar panel system to the new roof of the new showrooms to be before the March 3rd deadline which we had MCS certified & approved on the 27th of February to qualify for the full tariff. Even after the reduction, FIT's still have a good return for your investment & a great stepping stone towards a much greener environment.

The Arts & Crafts Eco Project is looking for sponsorship from local & national companies involved & interested in solar & renewable energies industries, & by gaining the right corporate sponsors at the cutting edge of sustainable technologies together we will then begin a partnership with an aim to engage the mammoths of industry & commerce who must & will eventually start to see the benefits too, & hopefully implement this project but on a much grandeur scale & then, only then can the real reversal of global warming have a chance.......

With TV appearances by Tony Geering on the Antiques Road Trip for the BBC & Co-presenting in five episodes of Kirstie's Home Made Home's series 2, first aired by Channel 4 at Christmas 2010, & again in July 2011, with further appearances for ITV in 'Dickinson Real Deal' screened in 2012.
Any companies interested to supply their 'green products' within this exciting new build in exchange to have their wares exclusively marketed by The ACEcoProject then do get in contact with Tony Geering.
We plan to document the whole project from start to finish, & film parts of it's progress.
Tony Geering MD.
www.acecoproject.co.uk
www.puritanvalues.com

The link below will take you to our page with information & images of Tony with Kirstie Allsop, Co-Presenting 'Kirstie's Home Made Homes' for Channel 4. See Tony Geering co-presenting Kirstie's Home Made Homes on Channel 4