Protecting our Environment

Building sustainable homes is an essential part of what we do, keen to promote sustainable development on all of our schemes, working with local communities to create developments that make a positive contribution towards the Environment and the local community.

We may not always get the balance right, but we always try to strike a fair balance between the many competing demands on development for urgently needed new homes.

Needless to say, our employees are all enthusiastic about protecting and promoting the ideals of sustainable living, ensuring that, as a company, we do actually “walk the walk”, delivering on our promises.

Here are just some of the actions we are taking to protect and improve our Environment and your well being.

Designing sustainable developments

  • Designing our developments taking advantage of natural light and orientation to the sun.

  • Designing extensive cycleways and footpaths in our developments.

  • Incorporating existing landscape features whilst reinforcing the green environment with additional tree planting and shrubs, making for a green environment.

Reducing Your Energy Costs

  • Installing air source heat pumps, electric heating and photovoltaic solar panels

  • Building highly insulated timber frame homes

  • Providing electric car charging points

  • Incorporating smart technology to control energy costs in the home

  • Providing highest rated energy efficient appliances

Building your home

  • Taking pride in the quality of our homes and incorporating modern methods of construction

  • Designing-out complexity to avoid waste

  • Improving air tightness and energy in your homes

  • Adopting the “fabric first” approach to improving energy efficiency

Encouraging Health & Wellbeing

  • Incorporating extensive footpaths and cycleways

  • Creating large ares of open space in which to relax

  • Protecting and enchaining the green environment

Protecting the Enviroment & Wildlife

  • Engaging ecology enhancing facilities to encourage wildlife and biodiversity

  • Installing badger setts, bat and bird boxes

  • Creating wildlife ‘oases’/ponds to encourage wildlife

  • Applying biodiversity net gain principles

Working with the Local Community

  • Working with the local community to minimise disruption during construction

  • Involving local schools in our projects and making financial contributions to local charities

  • Encouraging our purchasers to manage their environment via a resident’s management company

  • Providing community facilities, for example - Community shop, local museum and art centre

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