We are all aware the world’s fossil fuels are depleting and new technologies and techniques are being investigated, tested and used for a new sustainable life on earth. I’m sure that you will have seen programmes on the television and read articles relating to eco living, green homes, our carbon foot print and sustainability, but do we know what they really mean?

Mr and Mrs White live in rural Staffordshire, in a modest countryside cottage dating back to a period in the 1800s. The property had some previous additions to it, noticeably a kitchen extension, and a porch added within the last 20 years.

Hearing, yes hearing, hello, hello, yes I said hearing, can you hear me now? Jokes aside, the ability to hear is such an important sense along with sight. Our ability to hear with ease and clarity is something we may take granted on a daily basis. We do it without even thinking about it.

How often can you remember queuing for your next class at school and walking into the room only to find it extremely hot, sweaty and smelly from the previous occupants?

How often do you think about the space in your immediate environment? The probability is that you rarely consider the space around you until there's a significant impact either negative or positive that affects you.

Light, we take it for granted and rarely think about it on a daily basis, but it is the centre of solar system, the driving force behind our world and reason we have sight. We have created time around the cycle of the daylight hours we experience on our planet and it is our primary source of energy, without light we could not exist.

What do you remember about your days at school and the classrooms you were taught in? Can you remember the design, décor and colours? The amount of light in the classroom and the furniture used?

Croft Architecture have again been successful in obtaining planning permission and listed building consent for a Grade II listed site in Upper Leigh, Staffordshire.