The next episode in our sustainability in real estate series sees Luke interviewing Sam Tullock from believe housing. Sam is the Strategic Asset Business Lead looking after the environmental, asset management and compliance functions.
believe housing owns nearly 20,000 homes in the County Durham area and is currently building another 1,250 new homes in the next five years.
Luke: How do we build affordable net-zero homes?
Sam:
Our board agreed on our new development strategy for more
homes, better places in October 2021 which will see us develop a further 1250
new homes over the next five years.
The strategy will also see us in a great place to emphasize
on communities we’ve served, as well as delivering the whole placemaking
agenda, but more importantly our zero carbon ambitions.
We are wanting to ensure that all of our new builds are A
band in the next year or two. So any future scheme which is currently in progress
that won’t be to band A, they’re currently to band B, but anything in the future
will be to A. Which is really important to us especially as well, obviously we
have a green action plan and is part of that action plan, so we’re ensuring
that we deliver on that.
We are looking at some other schemes that been developed in
the surrounding area, were hydrogen. We think that this probably isn’t for us
potentially at this moment. I think we are a long way away, but we are looking
things in terms of mine water harvesting. We have lots of mines with us being
in the Durham area that we could potentially look to utilise and have mine
water harvesting system on a communal scheme.
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