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NHBC Pride in the Job Supreme Awards runner up
At the NHBC Pride in the Job Supreme Awards on Friday, Site Manager Sean O'Regan, working at our Waldmers Wood development in Bury, was named runner up in the Large Builder Category.
The Pride in the Job awards are the 'Oscars' of the housebuilding industry, and our record underlines the high standard of work that our site teams deliver every day, building homes and places of the highest quality.
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Posted: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:00
Kickstart - a new shared ownership scheme launched with Legal & General Affordable Homes
To help more people to buy a high quality new home, we've launched a new shared ownership scheme with Legal & General Affordable Homes, called Kickstart.
Kickstart is a great way for people to afford a new home because they can start by buying a share rather than the full market value of the home. This means the deposit is lower, mortgage is smaller and you can increase that share over time.
Eligible... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:18
We continue to be the country’s leading national sustainable housebuilder
This was underlined last week by the NextGeneration benchmark, where we were again ranked as the leading national sustainable housebuilder, and second on the list overall, scoring 85% across over 60 criteria covering the full ESG spectrum.
NextGeneration is the only sustainable housing benchmark used by the majority of UK housebuilders to assess their sustainability performance.
On top of our Gold Award... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:29
Last week we hosted the first tour of our new, £45 million-pound timber frame factory in Derby
Last week, we hosted the first tour of our new, £45 million-pound timber frame factory in Derby.
A group of mortgage lenders and valuers including TSB Bank, Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide Building Society, toured the factory to see how raw materials are taken from one end of the 200,000-square foot facility and placed on a giant conveyor belt, where wall and floor panels and roof trusses... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:06
Biodiversity
As the country's leading national sustainable housebuilder, we want to build homes for nature too, so it was great to see government bring forward draft legislation this week that aims to boost biodiversity on every new development across the country.
The legislation, known as Biodiversity Net Gain or BNG, will mean all new developments, from all developers, will need to demonstrate that they will achieve... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:12
Barratt Developments PLC 55th anniversary on the London Stock Exchange
Thank you to London Stock Exchange and Julia Hoggett for hosting us for Friday's market closing ceremony to mark Barratt Developments PLC 55th anniversary on the exchange and to mark the milestone with some of our key corporate stakeholders.
In 1968, 10 years after Sir Lawrie Barratt established the company we were building around 500 homes a year, with an annual turnover of around £800,000 –... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:10
2023 NextGeneration Innovation Award for the industry-leading eHome2 project
Congratulations to our Innovation and Sustainability teams for receiving the 2023 NextGeneration Innovation Award for the industry-leading eHome2 project, creating a blueprint for zero carbon housing at scale that can cope with future extreme climates.
Posted: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:00
Barratt Developments PLC to increase biodiversity by at least 10% across all of our new developments from January this year
As the country's leading national sustainable housebuilder, we care about the environment and want to help give nature a home on our developments.
This is why we took an industry-leading position to increase biodiversity, known as Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), by at least 10% across all of our new developments from January this year.
This was significantly ahead of government regulation designed to ensure... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 08:58