Lancaster Architects Launches
Sustainable Eco-Pods
The popularity of holidaying and
weekending in the UK is firmly on the
rise, with glamping at the forefront of
the ‘staycation’ revolution.
Lancaster-based Harrison Pitt
Architects’ versatile approach and
innovative eye for quality development,
is proving perfectly placed to support
businesses capitalizing on 2019, dubbed
the year of ‘exponential growth’ in the
luxury staycation market.
Working in partnership with specialist
timber home manufacturer JT
Construction, the multiple award
winning architects have launched
‘PlusPods’. These luxury modular
structures can be linked in various
combinations to create bespoke,
adaptable accommodation for different
uses.
Certainly not limited to luxurious
glamping, PlusPods have already
generated requests for bespoke modules
across the sector. Applications include
holiday cottages, garden rooms for
hotels and pubs, home offices, shared
amenity areas on camping sites, even
low-impact small residences and
accommodation for TV and film sets.
Designing for long term sustainability,
the team construct and insulate each
pod to the highest industry standards
which meet the newbuild house energy
efficiency criteria, rather than the lower
minimum, required for caravans, garden
rooms and glamping pods.
Solar panels and a log-burner or pellet
stove can all be designed in too.
Sustainably sourced larch for the walls
allows sympathetic blending with urban
or rural surroundings.
They can also be delivered with a sedum
roof for use in sensitive environments
like National Parks and Areas of
Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs).
2018’s long hot summer only increased
enthusiasm for ‘staycationing’, and
with the glamping sector growing 11%
year on year, ‘comfortable camping’ is
offering a sound investment.
Richard Wooldridge, director at
Harrison Pitt, said; “I had the idea for
PlusPods while on a family glamping
holiday. I realised that a highly
insulated glamping pod would be able
to lengthen the tourism season by
providing comfortable accommodation
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throughout the colder months; and
would also make the PlusPod more cost
effective and greener to run.”
Celebrating 40 years at the forefront
of innovation and design, and with
a dedicated hotels and leisure team
offering planning consultancy, project
management and sustainability
consultancy, Harrison Pitt are already
taking 2019 by storm.
Determined to challenge existing
market leaders’ typically lower
thermal standard glamping pods, the
competitively priced and sustainable
PlusPods look set to become an
attractive and desirable fixture in the
landscape, whatever the forecast.