About This Live Project

Foxholes is a small village on the busy B1249 mid-way between Driffield and Scarborough in the Yorkshire Wolds. It has a semi-derelict village hall and no funds to renovate it. Their best option appears to be to sell off part or all of the existing site for development and build a new hall elsewhere, though renovation of the existing hall may be possible if funding becomes available.

The purpose of this project is to prepare a hard-nosed assessment of the short- and longterm Sustainability potential of the four options to assist decision-making and fundraising.
This is the kind of assessment that will become increasingly important for architects on all projects as every form of energy
becomes scarce and expensive.

Sunday 12 October 2008

And so we arrived in the Village on the first Thursday of term with no prior knowledge of the village. There is very little information in books or on the internet about the village itself and other than google earth images we had no idea what to expect from the village. Our first task was a meeting with two members of the Village Hall Committee to discuss what the current situation was within the village and the history of the process to aquire a new hall.

This meeting was highly informative in explaining the history of the current village hall and why the village required such a building. We were also able to discuss:

• What activities used to occur within the hall
• What currently goes on
• and what they should like to attract to a new hall.

in addition to the absence of basic services in the village such as a Post Office, Mobile Phone signal, Bakery, Shop, Bus services, Petrol Station, Doctors, Dentists, Library and more. Some of these are availailable through mobile facilities that visit the village, others only in neighbouring towns that require a car journey to get to.
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