Go-ahead for UK’s largest mass timber structure neighbourhood

Campaigning development company Human Nature has secured planning for a 685-home riverside estate conceived, built and operated on circular principles and community-first thinking.
The Lewes-based company, which was founded by former Greenpeace directors Michael Manolson and Jonathan Smales, has called on a dozen architects to design the UK’s ‘most sustainable neighbourhood’.
Its visionary project, known as the Phoenix, will transform a former industrial site in Lewes, East Sus