Our Environment
Rebecca(pictured above) receiving our 'International Green Apple Award' for the built environment from David Bellamy at the Tower of London in June 2008. Rosehill was also given the 'Green Champion Award'.
Here at Rosehill Lodges we see our business and our environment and everything that lives within it as one and the same thing. In this sense our impact on your environment as well as our own is kept, where possible, to an absolute mininimum.
For green holidays in Cornwall we believe we can offer you the perfect choice. Quality and attention-to-detail are close to our hearts. Our proactive and positive commitment to environmental sustainability dovetails with this attention-to-detail. We believe that quality and luxury can live side by side with a care for our environment.
We are pleased to advise that in June 2008 we were awarded Gold under the Green Tourism Business Scheme following a rigorous assessment of our business. In addition we are proud to announce that in June 2008 we were also awarded Gold in the International Green Apple Awards for the "Built Environment". Our efforts were also recognised by being presented with the "Green Champions Award" by the Green Organisation at the same ceremony.
To compliment our incredible environment, each lodge incorporates a whole raft of green eco friendly features. Very high insulant levels throughout, log burners, grass roofs, solar water heating and full recycling facilities including composting. We should point out that the hot tubs that we provide with each lodge, although great for relaxation and soothing those aching limbs after a day on the beach,are definitely not a eco green product even though they are extremely well insulated.
We look forward to welcoming you to our Eco-Friendly luxury Lodges
Energy efficiency
As well as looking fantastic, the grass roofs on the lodges keep them warm in winter and cool in summer. The lodges are insulated to an extremely high level, using materials such as recycled newspaper and lava rock.
Each lodge has a biomass log burner for space heating, solar water panels and, of course, low-energy light bulbs.
Building materials from sustainable sources
All the materials we used to construct the lodges have come from sustainable sources.
The floors are made from bamboo, the fastest-growing woody plant on earth, making them highly sustainable.
Recycling
Comprehensive recycling facilties are provided to each lodge. These incorporate paper, tins, plastic, paper and cardboard. We encourage as much of the waste material from each lodge to be recycled including the composting of organic material.
We even built the lodges from recycled material, including the newspaper insulation we use in the cavity wall and the recycled glass mosaic tiles in the bathrooms.
Cornish, through and through
Rather than shipping materials half-way around the world, we felt it was better to buy local wherever we could.
The cladding on all the lodges is made of Cornish larch, which was personally chosen from a sustainable forest here in Cornwall.
The lodges were hand built locally here within the village of Porthtowan by dedicated and skilled craftsmen.
Our employees live in the village and walk to work.
