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Bellway gold award places it at the top of PLC sustainability rankings
Bellway has achieved a gold award in the Next Generation Benchmark which assesses sustainability practices in the country’s largest housebuilding companies. The award recognises Bellway’s achievements and ongoing commitment to sustainability across eight key areas. The survey ranked Bellway in third place overall, making it the leading PLC housebuilder for sustainability. Bellway’s sustainability strategy extends across all areas of its business. “There is particular focus on carbon reduction, caring for customers and communities, and being an employer of choice, said the fi rm.
The company has invested heavily in industry leading projects, including as a partner in Energy House 2.0, an initiative led by The University of Salford which is trialling low-carbon technologies for new homes in a climate-controlled chamber. Bellway built a full size house in the facility and has worked with academics and suppliers to the industry to prepare for the adoption of the Future Homes
Standard from 2027.
Bellway also opened a training facility at its Barton Quarter development in Bolton to help train staff, suppliers and SMEs in future technologies. The facility won a Next Generation Innovation Award. The housebuilder’s commitment to biodiversity “extends beyond Government requirements,” and a native species focused showhome garden has been created in Nottinghamshire to encourage more people towards wildlife friendly gardening.
The Next Generation Benchmark assesses performance across categories ranging from company strategy and reporting through to communities and placemaking. ellway achieved top fi ve rankings in seven out of eight categories, including fi rst place for health, safety and environmental management, and second place for energy and carbon and procurement.
Avant to build 52 units in East Lothian project
Housebuilder Avant Homes is delivering 52 new homes for East Lothian Housing Association (ELHA) at Blindwells, near Tranent in East Lothian, after agreeing a £10.6m deal with the affordable housing provider.
Jones Homes secures land for 235-home development in Middlewich
Jones Homes has acquired a 37 acre site in Warmingham Lane, Middlewich, where it has begun building 235 new homes and will create green open spaces. The Cheshire-based housebuilder will also contribute more than £1.2m towards the planned Middlewich Eastern Relief Road. The development, to be known as Warmingham Park, will include one to fi ve-bedroom houses, bungalows and apartments.
Around half of the site will become landscaped open space, featuring a children’s play area, new wildlife habitats and a community orchard.
The contribution towards the relief road will be reallocated towards education or affordable housing if the road does not progress. The housebuilder is also providing 24 affordable homes for “people with a connection to the local area,” as part of the planning agreement for the scheme.
Bellway’s head of sustainability Simon Park and sustainability and innovation manager Emma Dickinson
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Outline planning consent for the development was granted in 2019 and a reserved matters application showing the detailed layout was approved in December 2024.
The social rented homes will form part of the housebuilder’s £48m, 174- home Althamer View development which features a range of three-, four- and fi ve- bedroom properties. It is located one mile off the A1, and is less than a 30-minute drive from the heart of Edinburgh. he partnerships deal is the fi rst between the two organisations, and is a “further example of the housebuilder’s multi-tenure strategy which seeks to maximise housing supply.” This has seen Avant Homes, which has its cotland head offi ce in dinburgh, deliver its energy effi cient, uality new homes for a range of affordable housing and private rented sector (PRS) providers. All the homes typically have an Energy
Performance ertifi cate P rating of or above, which is considered to represent an excellent level of energy effi ciency. Work is already underway on the 52 one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom homes which comprise bungalow, apartments, terraced and semi-detached house types. he fi rst residents are scheduled to move in to the properties at the end of October. Avant Homes also operates in the north of England and Midlands. Across its operating regions, the housebuilder has secured a near term pipeline of more than 900 additional affordable homes to be delivered across 15 developments. Avant Homes is also responsible for the delivery of a further 550 Section 106 affordable homes which are currently under construction.
Headquartered in Barlborough, near
hesterfi eld, Avant omes ambition is to grow its multi-tenure business further across its existing regions and beyond.
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