Two years later, the hamlet of Les Noés in Val-de-Reuil remains a benchmark eco-neighbourhood in Normandy.

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08 February 2019

For some people, living in the countryside is synonymous with isolation and loneliness. The hamlet of Les Noés in Val-de-Reuil (Eure) proves the contrary: this environmentally friendly eco-neighbourhood promotes the individual and collective well-being of its residents on a daily basis.

In Val-de-Reuil, a commune located an hour from Paris and 20 minutes from Rouen, Siloge inaugurated a new neighbourhood in late 2016, called “Hamlet of Les Noés”. Designed by a design-construction-operation-maintenance group*, this project is the fruit of a desire to offer residents a shared living space that respected the planet. The hamlet of Les Noés, which covers 4.6 hectares, includes a protected natural area surrounding the neighbourhood to give residents a completely natural living environment. The eco-village has 98 homes that qualify as social housing (80%) as well as individual houses for social acquisition (20%). All this housing is committed to respecting a passive environmental ambition of keeping energy consumption under 15 kWH/m² habitable floor area per year.

Over and above the environmental and economic benefits offered by this eco-neighbourhood, this project strives to improve the daily lives of each resident by providing them with shared and public spaces:

Eco-crèche
Shared gardens and orchards
Shared car service
“Asinobus” service, where children are taken to school by donkeys
Horticultural and gardening activity

The eco-neighbourhood of Val-de-Reuil continues to grow, and still promises to give its residents a responsible and unified quality of living thanks to the variety of programmes on offer.

The success of the hamlet of Les Noés has earned it several national awards, including:

The “Eco-Neighbourhood” label, awarded on 8 December 2016 by the French Minister of Housing and Sustainable Habitat, Emmanuelle Cosse;
The “Sustainable Town” grand prize at the Green Solutions Awards in 2017;
The “Silver Square” prize in the “Urban and Landscape Development” category, awarded in December 2018-