WestWyck News

This year WestWyck was once again open for the Alternative Technology Association’s Sustainable House Day.
WestWyck P/L and the WestWyck Owners’ Corporate are proud to host this event and put the WestWyck development model on display as it stands as a national and international leading example of medium density, quality design sustainable development and as such provides a challenge to the broader community.
Given that WestWyck had nearly 400 visitors in 2010, we beat the bushes to drum up volunteers to cope with anticipated large numbers. However, grey skies, high wind, a bit of rain, Essendon and Carlton playing a life and death footy game and the increased numbers of sites open in 2011 combined to reduce the numbers of visitors for Sustainable House Day in 2011.
While WestWyck was disappointed to be able to host only 150 people, ATA has reported to us that numbers were generally down to this extent right around the state.


We finished up with a fine bevy of helpers, tour guides and lunch-makers who made major contributions to the success of the day. The feedback was as usual extremely positive and the questions showed we had some pretty informed visitors, people who had been thinking about how to reduce their personal footprint for some time.

One perverse benefit of having lower numbers was that we had more time to engage in more in-depth discussion with the visitors.


The photo shows one of our volunteer tour guides, Ed Cotter, at work with a group.

And we noticed that blogger "idontwearblack" was impressed by a visit to WestWyck on Sustainable House Day.

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