Lower Mill Estate Press Coverage

SUNDAY EXPRESS, Friday June 20,2008 By Andrea Watson

"The Cotswold Water Park is one of those rare places where industry has played an active part in improving the environment. Local tourism chiefs have long been eyeing up the leisure and sports potential of the 146 lakes that were formed by the extraction of minerals...

But it is the lakes– still at an early stage of development in terms of their biodiversity – that are the main attraction for walkers, cyclists, birdwatchers and watersports fans.

As tourists become increasingly sophisticated in their tastes, the need for upmarket accommodation has grown. The result has been the emergence of two mainholiday-home developments around the lakes: Lower Mill Estate and Watermark....

...Lower Mill Estate, a 450-acre park that is the brainchild of Jeremy Paxton, a green thinker who believes in harmony between the built environment and nature. In his words, he aims to create “aesthetically pleasing and sustainable homes that throw away the template of traditional housing ideas.”

UK HOME IDEAS 03 May 2008: LOWER MILL ESTATE WINS TWO AWARDS

"Lower Mill Estate in the Cotswolds, was set up to introduce imaginative, modernist architecture into a rural setting, to protect and enhance the natural environment, to engineer a harmony between residents and wildlife, and to protect the local and wider ecology.

The project’s success in achieving these objectives has been acknowledged with two awards in the Daily Telegraph Your New Homes Awards in March, for Best Architectural Innovation and Best Waterside Development."

THE INDEPENDENT, 10 July 2008  VIVA LA BEAVER

"They were hunted to extinction many centuries ago. But now, thanks to conservationists, they will soon be spotted in the wild again. Esther Walker explains their history and habits...

There are beavers living in certain parts of Scotland and England, but they all live in fenced areas. This project will be the first to release beavers into the wild. There is a colony of four beavers, in residence in the conservation centre Martin Mere in Lancashire, which are the stars of BBC's Autumnwatch. In 2005, six Bavarian beavers were caught and quarantined before being introduced into a 500-acre site at Lower Mill Estate in South Cerney. They were released into purpose-built straw lodges with an access chute into a lake by the land owner Jeremy Paxton, the champion water-skier turned magazine publisher turned developer. "