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WRITTEN MEDIA/specialist journals & newsletters

DATE

BROADCAST MEDIA

DATE

Independent on Sunday

half page with colour pictures

8/1/1995

RADIO 4

6 min - 'Woman's Hour'

January 1995

Daily Telegraph

14 column inches,Half page with pictures

21/8/1994

BBC 1's COUNTRY FILE

report

January 1995

Mail on Sunday

26/3/1995

RADIO 5 LIVE

'Dirty News' environmental programme

8/5/1995

Daily Telegraph

6/5/1995

BBC Radio Scotland

Colin Campbell Show

10/4/1995

Sunday Telegraph

10 column inches and picture

18/8/996

'Afternoon Shift' Radio 4

Interview with Tom Watts

May 1995

Times

20 column inches and 2 pictures

4/9/96

Radio 1 Newsbeat

2 min

8/1/96

Building for a Future

2/3 pages with linked article about Newark &Sherwood council

November 1996

 

 

Eurobau (German building magazine)

2 page article + picture

July 1997

Radio 4

Today programme - early morning news - approx. 3mins

5/5/1997

Swedish local newspaper

Photo + reference

July 1997

 

 

Building Design

Part of Centre spread, with 3 diagrams and photo's

11/7/1997

 

 

Sunday Telegraph

29 column inches + 3 colour photo's

24/8/1997

 

 

Times

(weekend property) - 2 column inches + 1 large photo

31/1/98

Radio 4

"Going Underground" ½ hour documentary

20/4/1998

Guardian Education

2 centre page spread

26/5/98

BBC 2 'Home Front'

9 min - "The greening of a lounge"

3/6/98

BBC ' Good Homes'

2 pages, including 9 colour pictures

August 1998

Channel 5 News

1'40" *3

5/6/98

BOOK - "Greening the Built Environment"

Smith, Whitelegg & Nick Williams

July 1998

BBC Six O'clock News

"..report from Nottingham which hopes to achieve the highest development in energy efficiency" 2 min

26/10/00

Daily Telegraph Special report

Energy efficiency in the home. Reference to Nick Raynsford. 3 photographs + 10n column inches

27/10/00

Radio 4 'Today'

Including interview with Construction Minister, Nick Raynsford.

27/10/00

The Observer

"Homes to make you green"

3 photographs + 15 column inches

8/11/98

Sky News

"Revolutionary green house project launched in Notts"

Two live interviews via satellite link up on launch day including Nick Raynsford. Also on regular bulletins all day.

27/10/00

The Times

"Radical change starts at the grass-roofs level"

3 column inches

25/11/98

Central News

"Country's first ever self-sufficient ecological housing development is officially launched today"

Live interviews via satellite link up on launch day including Nick Raynsford.

27/10/00

Design – The journal of the Design Council

"Subterrburban heaven"

4 pages + 5 colour photographs

Winter 1998/99

BBC 2 – Weather Show-

5 min programme all about Hockerton, in particular the importance of weather to the way the houses at Hockerton operate, and what lessons are to be learnt more widely about the way we live in our homes.

3/11/98

The Times

"Heat is on for change – Energy-conserving houses may open up a builders’ market for the future"

8 column inches

10/2/99

All the Right Moves – BBC2 –8.30pm (6mins)

"Green housing is no longer the domain of the alternative lifestyle. Be it semi-underground and developed with minimal impact on the surrounding environment, or triple glazed with solar panels, this is the trend that's growing fast."

24/6/99

Sunday Times

"Don’t let green loans colour your judgement"

1 column inch + colour photo

14/3/99

Central TV – 24 Hours – 7.30pm (25mins)

"Five Hockerton families want to build a wind turbine, but neighbours are fighting their proposal"

6/7/99

The Observer

"Save the planet and save on the gas bill"

12 column inches + colour photo

14/3/99

Carlton TV – ‘Our House’

"A new series of ITV lifestyle show Our House will hit the screens on Friday – first programme takes a peep inside Nick & Trudi White’s home at the Hockerton Housing Project"

9 mins

 

Building For A Future Magazine

"Hockerton in focus"

3pages including 4 colour photo’s

Spring ‘99’

 

 

Living Lightly

"Sheltered by the Earth"

2 pages, including 3 colour images + a graphic

Summer ‘99’

 

 

Big Issue

"Where Swampy meets Wimpey – Labour has promised an ‘urban renaissance’ in our cities. But what about people who want to live in the country? Sam Hart meets a couple who are painting the shires green"

W/c 12/7/99

 

 

The Architects Journal

"Model Housing – A small Nottinghamshire housing development is pioneering ideas about communal sustainability"

3 pages, incl. 5 colour photos and 3 graphics.

15/7/99

 

 

BBC Vegetarian & Good Food Magazine

"GOING UNDERGROUND-Why would a group of successful, professional people, with good jobs and comfortable homes, give it all up to live in holes in the ground?"

3 pages + 11 colour photo’s

Aug ‘99’

NTV Moscow (Russian TV)

5-10 min piece about the project – it will be broadcast to 30-40 million Russian speaking people throughout Europe and Israel.

Oct ‘99’

IKEA – ROOM

"A home of your Own – Building your own house is the affordable, eco-friendly way to create a home… and it can even change your life. Sue Wheat speaks to three people who’ve taken on the ultimate DIY job."

2 pages + 4 colour pictures

Winter 99/00

 

 

Sunday Times

"Why we all feel safe as houses living in the past"

2 column inches + 3 pictures

26/12/99

Open University (BBC OU Productions) – Video

‘Green Homes’ – for OU course ‘ Working with our Environment’.

18 minutes

Mar 2000

BOOK – The New Autonomous House – Design & Planning forSustainability

Includes double page graphic of HHP homes and several text references

25/4/00

Discovery Today (ITN Factual)

4 min covering general aspects - Also 3 min on Autonomous House.

July 2000

Publication - New Practice Profile 119 - 'The Hockerton Housing Project - design lessons for developers and clients'

(Part of Governments Energy efficient Best Practice Programme - produced by BRESCU)8 pages / 14 images

June 2000

Discovery Worlwide -Village Green

8 min

July 2000

   

Independent Production (A light source film production)

The Future of Paradise - the European Ecovillage Experience8 min on HHP

Sept 2000