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Greenhouse is an eight-storey, mixed-use block of eco-flats in Beeston, Leeds. The building took its present form in 2010, after renovation of a 1938 development, Shaftesbury House . As Shaftesbury House, the building was noted for its technologically innovative, modernist housing of migrant workers.
It is the largest greenhouse complex in the UK, covering 90 hectares, or 220 acres (0.89 km 2) of land. [1] The glasshouses produce approximately 400 million tomatoes, 24 million peppers and 30 million cucumbers a year, equal to roughly 12, 11 and 8 per cent respectively of Britain’s entire annual production of those salad ingredients.
OpenRent is an online letting agent and property service provider, founded in 2012. It is a UK-based startup company focused on technological solutions to property rentals. [ 1 ] It claims to be the largest letting agent in the UK based on number of properties, boasting over 5 million users as of 2022.
The majority of property finders charge a retainer fee before they begin the search for a property. Users of full service estate agents in the UK can expect to pay a flat fee while, more typically in the US, a percentage of the property purchase price may be received from the seller's broker by means of an offer of compensation to cooperating brokers or it can be paid directly by the buyer.
An allotment garden in Petsamo, Tampere, Finland. The Luxembourg-based Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux, representing three million European allotment gardeners since 1926, describes the socio-cultural and economic functions of allotment gardens as offering an improved quality of life, an enjoyable and profitable hobby, relaxation, and contact with nature.
Designated areas of green belt in England; the Metropolitan Green Belt outlined in red. In British town planning, the green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth.The term, coined by Octavia Hill in 1875, [1] [2] refers to a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted for the foreseeable future, maintaining an area where local food growing, forestry and outdoor leisure can ...
In the UK, the legal definition of a conservatory is a building that has at least 50% of its side wall area glazed and at least 75% of its roof glazed with translucent materials, either polycarbonate sheeting or glass. Today, the terms sunroom, solarium and conservatory are used interchangeably by the public, but in general the term ...
The building is used for teaching postgraduate degrees and short courses and is also available as a conference venue and exhibition space. In 2010 the WISE building was awarded the first place in The Daily Telegraph ' s list of Top 10 Buildings 2010 [ 13 ] and came fourth in The Guardian 's Top 10 list of buildings for 2010. [ 14 ]