Environmental,
social and governance
“… They are the only company locally that are doing
anything like this. Reputation is the most important thing
for This Land – anything to improve this is worth doing…” *
This Land forms part of Cambridgeshire County Council’s (CCC) Scope 3. Our aim is for our ESG strategy goals to align with the council’s Climate Change and Environment Strategy. As both a master developer and housebuilder, we recognise our responsibility to deliver communities while protecting and enhancing the environment.
Find out how we are challenging the standard approaches to planning and development:
We aim to deliver more affordable homes than planning policy requires, where viable.
Our ambition is to be net-zero carbon by 2045.
We aim to reduce our carbon footprint by at least 50% by 2030 and we have introduced Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP) on all our sites to help achieve this target.
To date, 90% of the new homes we have built are powered by electric energy only. All of our future new developments will be 100% powered by electric energy only.
Our business operating model results in less than 1% of our total carbon footprint being from non-construction activities, compared with 7% or higher for the sector as a whole.
Our water use is targeted to be below Future Homes Standard of 110l/person on all our developments bym2025 and we are working to decrease this further.
For brownfield developments, our discharge rates are restricted to offer at least 20% betterment on the extant discharges.
For greenfield developments, our post development discharge rates are restricted to mimic predeveloped rates.
We pro-actively manage surface water run-off from our sites to mitigate against flood risk in flood prone areas.
We use sustainable urban drainage systems to control water with integration of these
We focus development into areas designated as Flood Zone 1 wherever possible.
We aim to surpass biodiversity net gain statutory require
For brownfield developments, our discharge rates are restricted to offer at least 20% betterment on the extant discharges.
*As reported by independent report carried out by Grain Sustainability, October 2022.