Kent Housebuilder Commits To Beating Government Environment Targets

Award-winning Kent housebuilder Esquire Developments has announced the homes built on all its new sites will significantly exceed the Government’s environmental performance targets for new homes.

By achieving a 50% reduction in the CO² produced during the construction and occupation of its homes, Esquire Developments will beat the Government’s 2025 demand for housebuilders to achieve a 31% reduction from 2021 levels.

The announcement coincides with the United Nations climate change conference (COP26) in Glasgow and is the result of detailed engineering and design work, undertaken by Esquire Developments ahead of getting under way on its latest site in early 2022.

Esquire’s construction team has adopted a fabric-first approach, using building materials and processes that increase insulation in the new properties. Fibolite blocks – which use a high proportion of recycled materials such as stone, sand and gravel – will be used, and production material waste is again recycled into alternative products.

Each of Esquire’s future homes will be designed to have high levels of airtightness to avoid heat loss; low carbon heating including air source heat pumps; and energy-efficient electrical appliances. Attention has also been given to water management to reduce consumption, building on previous work to incorporate flood resilience into the design and landscaping of gardens.

Improving Esquire’s performance is much more than the materials used to build their homes, it is about ensuring its construction teams have the plans in place to schedule deliveries and minimise wait times and engine running times on site.

Paul Henry, Managing Director of Esquire Developments, said: “Our homes already outperform the Government’s 31% target, but we wanted to go further,

“This is a landmark initiative for us as a Kent business. We are pleased to be able to improve our environmental performance, and to help our customers to reduce their own carbon footprint by living in energy-efficient homes, with lower living costs.

“It’s about making lots of small changes which come together to make a significant contribution.”

Based in Longfield, near Dartford, Esquire Developments won Gold in the Best Small Housebuilder of the Year category at the 2020 WhatHouse? Awards for the quality of the new homes it has created across North Kent.

For more information about the company visit www.esquiredevelopments.com