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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

Heat pump scheme for Edwardian social housing aims to bust low-carbon myths

General view of Sutton Dwellings Trust Estates buildings, built in 1913, on Cale Street, Chelsea, London
The Sutton Dwellings buildings were completed in 1913 on Cale Street in Chelsea, London. Photograph: Maurice Savage/Alamy

Some of the earliest examples of purpose-built social housing in the UK can still be found tucked away along central London’s more affluent streets. Built in Edwardian baroque style, the Sutton Dwellings in Chelsea are perhaps an unlikely site for an innovative scheme at the new frontier of Britain’s low-carbon journey.

This winter more than 80 of the estate’s flats will be warmed by heat pumps that tap the warmth of the earth well below the streets of central London.

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