Four years ago, a housing complex called BedZed opened in south London with the ambitious goal of running entirely on renewable energy. Well, things haven’t gone quite as planned. BedZed’s ...

On a rainy day in Sutton, south London, the brightly-coloured wind cowels do not seem to rotate on the roofs of the BedZed housing development with quite the same vigour as they did in the early days.

The Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) may not be new news, but is a fabulous example of innovative, zero-energy, sustainable housing on a multi-unit scale. The residential and workspace ...

NESTLED inside Sutton, Surrey in the United Kingdom is a housing development that represents what is perhaps the western world’s best example of a low energy, eco-friendly community. Aptly named ...

The UK's largest ever off-grid housing development will have a traffic light system prompting residents to keep their energy use low, say developers awaiting planning permission. PortzED is the ...

Tucked away in busy and polluted London sits an eco-friendly village where heating bills are non existent, the roofs are lined with solar panels, and neighbours pop round for tea. BedZED in Hackbridge ...

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LONDON — Residents of BedZED, a pioneering low-carbon housing development in a south London suburb, use one-fourth as much energy for heat and hot water as households in neighboring communities do, ...

People living in one of the country's biggest eco-communities are afraid to leave their houses after the green development was invaded - by giant rats. Massive rats measuring upwards of 10 inches long ...

The BedZed overspend and the Peabody Trust's problems meeting the decent homes standard came as no surprise. It is a typical scenario faced by many registered social landlords (9 January, page 7). I ...

Built to last 120 years and totally sustainable, the company behind the BedZed development hopes it will be a model for future house building. The first residents moved into the Beddington Zero Energy ...