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PRINCE WILLIAM is building 24 homes for homeless people on his Nansledan estate on the edge of Newquay, part of his 130,000 acre Duchy of Cornwall property portfolio. He is providing the land free of charge and funding the build, having overseen the design alongside ADAM Architecture and local Cornish firm ALA Architects. These low carbon homes will be made of sustainable materials including natural stone and timber, with solar panels and heat pumps, and will be designed to be as homely as possible, blending in with the estate in order to remove the stigma of social housing. Not only that, but the site will be landscaped and planted to wildflowers to encourage biodiversity. As well as this, the Prince of Wales is pushing a 40% minimum affordable housing quota for the wider Nansledan development - 33% higher than the minimum required, and meaning an extra 200 affordable homes in the area. William is the patron of two #homelessness charities - Centrepoint and The Passage - and last year launched an initiative called Homewards, a five year project to tackle homelessness, funded by £3,000,000 from the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales with the particular goal to end homeless in six areas - Cornwall, Lambeth, the south coast around Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Sheffield, Aberdeen and Northern Ireland. His ambition is to lead from the front on this issue as a conscientious landowner, with the added hope that the sustainable nature of his #lowcarbon development at Nansledan might be replicated across the country - tackling our housing crisis, but addressing environmental concerns at the same time.