We engage with local communities early in planning discussions and master planning. We hold public engagement events with residents and local communities to ensure their ideas and concerns are considered.
Once on site, we will seek to engage with residents both on our developments and in surrounding areas with community events.
On our site in Stebbing, we were delighted to welcome children from a local primary school onto our Ploughmans Reach development to teach them about site safety.
From a placemaking perspective, it is clear that living near green open spaces is highly valued and adds to people’s wellbeing. Many of our schemes are landscape led, with our architects incorporating open spaces and areas of biodiversity on each of our schemes with the intention of bringing more nature to the area than before we began.
From the outset of development, we identify opportunities to source local labour and suppliers as part of our programme of social value generation.
We also monitor and actively encourage our suppliers to utilise Government-backed apprenticeship schemes to provide people with valuable skill sets whilst working on site.
As part of our ongoing commitment to the communities we build in, we make contributions to both existing and planned community infrastructure and projects on each of our developments.
Working alongside the councils we develop a more informed perspective on where these contributions can be best targeted to maximise community value.
We take pride in our sustainability approach to housebuilding. Our homes are developed with care and built for life – not just for our homeowners, but with the environment and wider community in mind.
Our commitments include protecting and rehoming wildlife, preserving and planting new trees, shrubs and wildflower meadows as well as recycling all our build waste and using local suppliers and sub-contractors. We take pride in our sustainability approach to housebuilding.
