Understanding residents’ experiences of home, health, and wellbeing in new and novel low carbon homes

O'Sullivan, Kate, Shirani, Fiona, Pidgeon, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8991-0398 and Henwood, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-5468 2025. Understanding residents’ experiences of home, health, and wellbeing in new and novel low carbon homes. Housing Studies 10.1080/02673037.2025.2453015

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Abstract

As significant contributors to CO2, UK homes must be decarbonized. Active Homes represent a possible route to addressing both societal concerns and policy ambitions, while providing comfortable high quality living environments. However, changes to the material structure of homes have potential implications for people’s ability to live well within them. Our qualitative longitudinal (QL) research as part of the living well in low carbon homes project unpacks how changes brought about by living within an Active Home are experienced by residents, including to self-reported health and wellbeing. We explore how living in an Active Home may challenge expectations of home, including embodied experiences of comfort and intrinsic values of privacy and control. We suggest that it is important to recognize that these different but interwoven elements impact upon residents’ sense of home, and health and wellbeing, which has implications for future innovative low carbon homes.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Psychology Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	0267-3037
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	23 December 2024
Last Modified:	06 Mar 2025 10:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175573

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