Environmental standards
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 mindfull not to "greenwash" the public. Saying something and doing something can be worlds apart. To this end we have applied for assessment under the Green Tourism Business Scheme and we hope to let you know the result of this assessment by the end of March 2008.
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.
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.
