The launch of our first Sustainability Strategy

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Firstly, we’d like to say a huge thank you to those of you who completed our sustainability strategy towards the end of last year. We received over 700 responses, which demonstrates that sustainability is just as important to you as it is to us.

Although this is our first sustainability strategy, we are starting from a good place. You can read more about this in our 2024-25 environmental, social and governance (ESG) report here. We’ve linked our objectives to the Sustainability Reporting Standard (SRS), which is also used to reference our annual ESG report. In delivering this strategy, we want to measurably reduce our environmental impact, as a whole, year on year.

Following an in-depth gap analysis in 2024, our areas of focus are:

  • Residents
  • Carbon
  • Waste
  • Water
  • Biodiversity
  • Procurement
  • Pollution

We’ll be using three key approaches to reduce our impact in all these areas. They are:

  • Ask the questions – avoiding an impact in the first place is better than reducing the impact. We will look at opportunities to question the impact on sustainability when we are making decisions.
  • It takes a team – The successful delivery of this strategy takes a team. Our colleagues and residents are at the heart of this, and we’ll continue to build on these two concepts.
  • Design ‘in’ the future – Decisions we make now about our homes, estates or developments need to facilitate any measures we may need to incorporate further down the line. For example, EV charging, solar panels and shutters on windows.

Click here to view the full strategy including our action plan for 2025-26.

To support this strategy, we’d like to support local community champions and local projects that focus on environmental sustainability. Please get in touch with us at engagement@havebury.com if you are part of a local sustainability group or project, so we can discuss this further.

To further support our sustainability commitments, you may have seen that we’ve recently secured £3.4m from the Government’s Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3. You can read more about this here.

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