July 2012 – Atmos Totnes

New paper ‘Can Totnes build itself?’ released
New paper ‘Can Totnes build itself?’ released

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New paper ‘Can Totnes build itself?’ released

By Rob Hopkins|2012-07-12T10:13:36+01:00July 12th, 2012|News|

When it comes to building houses, which offers the best return to a local economy, concrete blocks or straw bales? Gypsum or clay plasters? Imported timber or local timber? Atmos Totnes today announces the release of a ground-breaking new paper, 'Can Totnes build itself?', which looks at the local building materials potentially available for the construction of the Atmos Totnes development. Atmos is a community-led initiative seeking to bring the former Dairy Crest site into community [...]

Kevin McCloud & Tim Smit announced as patrons

By Carly Trisk-Grove|2022-05-05T12:33:42+01:00July 1st, 2012|Timeline|

Atmos announce Tim Smit, founder of the Eden Project and Kevin McCloud of Grand Designs as Patrons. McCloud says "There's nothing more exciting than seeing people taking control for where they live. Atmos speaks volumes for where the whole nation, indeed where as a society, we could go".

TCDS formally registers as legal entity and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall joins campaigners

By Carly Trisk-Grove|2022-05-05T12:32:36+01:00July 1st, 2012|Timeline|

The Atmos project team form 'Totnes Community Development Society'. The Society, registered as an Industrial and Provident Society for the Benefit of the Community, is the legal entity which is taking forward the Atmos project. TV chef and campaigner Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall joins hundreds of Atmos Totnes campaigners in front of the site gates, everyone bringing something that, for them, represents what they would like to see on the final site. "The thing I'm most [...]