I FELT it necessary to respond to the articles about the lottery winners who are building a new home together (Post, April 20).
Please do not describe your proposed home as an eco-home. An eco-home doesn't become one by just by slapping on a few solar panels and using Triple A-rated appliances.
Consider the significant environmental impact of running your new 'ego-home' for the next 100 years. Even if you housed 100 people in it, you still could not describe it as such. If you were opening it up 365 days a year as a demonstration eco-friendly visitor centre then it still wouldn't touch the eco-description. Your plans are very misguided on many, many counts. This opulent grandeur that is proposed is truly the antithesis of an eco-home.
And for all those detractors out there that will accuse me of being jealous or begrudging of their win, I can safely say I am not. If I were lucky enough to win such an amount of money I would be doing other things with it that would complement the environment in contrast to destroying it.
For starters I would give the following advice to the lucky winners:
1) Keep your 1930s mansion and make it as energy efficient as possible getting your advice from Nottingham Energy Partnership
2) Talk in some detail to the Transition movement and the Centre for Alternative Technology about high performing eco-houses
What you're planning is not an eco-home and never will be. I sincerely hope you don't get planning permission.
Peter Saunders
Sherwood