The first residents have started moving into new eco-friendly apartments in Salford where energy bills are set to cost less than half the usual price.
Among them is Harriette Matthews, a 29-year-old studying to be a counsellor, who picked up her keys last week. She was given one of the 13 apartments available for 'affordable rent' at the new Greenhaus building.
The largest eco-friendly development of its kind in the North West, the apartment block in Chapel Street features 96 'highly-sustainable', affordable flats.
Harriette has been staying on her dad’s sofa in his one-bedroom flat for the past seven months following a relationship breakdown.
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