Environmental Strategy

• Publish a Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting Statement.
• In our offices we use IT equipment with low energy use technologies, use biodegrable cleaning materials, provide electric vehicle charging points and have banned all single use plastics.
• Offer a cycle to work scheme to all colleagues to recude transport emissions.
• Adopted a Hybrid or Electric Car only company policy.
• Provide role specific environmental training to colleagues. - EXAMPLE?
• Regular environmental initiatives and information regularly issued to all colleagues. - EXAMPLE?
• Recycle PPE and uniforms where possible.

• Seek to acquire sites in highly sustainable locations.
• When sourcing, we prioritise previously developed site opportunities as far as practicably possible.
• Utilise robust construction and environmental management plans. - EXAMPLE?
• Comply and promote Future Homes Standard Part L and Part F changes. - NEED LINKS
• Seek to retain all cut and fill onsite. - SW EXAMPLE?
• Utilise a waste management service. - WHO?
• Utilise modern methods of construction for timber frame solutions and smart roofs where possible.
• Target EPC rating A - C on all homes - WHAT %?
• Seek to produce from local sources.
• Conduct research into and case studies for innovative environmental approaches we deliver. - EXAMPLES?
• Use low volatile organic compound paint in all homes.
• Use recycled products and materials throughout the development cycle, including recycled aggregate concrete blocks and recycled insulation wherever possible. 
• Install long lasting, durable, and low embodied carbon matierls. - EXAMPLE?
• Integrate Energy Label Rated A white goods to minimise energy usage.
• Install water saving fittings and fixtures to all homes and constantly seek to achieve better water saving results, achieving less than 100 litres per person per day in some regions and developments - EXAMPLE OF WHERE
• Provide photovoltaic panels and electric vehicle charging points in line with local authority requirements.
• Provide extensive natural planting schemes internally and externally. - EXAMPLES?
• Seek to maximise animal habitats through bird boxes and bat bricks - EXAMPLES?
• Committed to planting 1 new tree for every new group house type we build in 2022.
• Policy for any tree felled as part of a planning consent is replaced (at least 1:1).
• Handover and Operations & Maintenance pack to help occupants with record of materials, products and systems used and instructions on how improving sustainability in use.
• Provide travel plan information to encourage sustainable transport use as necessary.
• Install Smart Meters in every home.

As a builder of homes, our vital design, demolition and construction activities will always create a level of greenhouse gas emissions. However, we are dedicated to understanding and minimising these emissions to being as small as possible.

Our commitment is to:

1. In 2022, we will set an Environmental Strategy to measure, record and understand our current emissions.
2. In 2022, we will meet the transitional Future Homes Standard changes to Part L or Part F building regulations transitional changes
3. On or before 2025, we will meet the Future Homes Standard to deliver new build homes which produce 75-80% less carbon emissions than homes delivered.
4. On or before 2050, we will achieve net zero carbon across our own operations, new homes and supply chain in line with UK Government commitment to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 100%.

We will seek at every opportunity to accelerate these commitment timescales.

To read our ESG Strategy in full, please click here.