LiveWest: Creating Greener Futures Together


Sustainable homes, neighbourhoods and communities are at the heart of what it means to deliver a home for everyone

Working smarter

We are taking colleagues on our environmental journey, ensuring paper consumption and business driving miles are reduced, phasing out single use plastic at our offices and using environmentally friendly stationery.

Sustainable homes

We are committed to improving the energy performance of our existing and new homes. This runs alongside our core ambition to support our customers and address fuel poverty.

Shaping futures

We are working with customers and partners to ensure that sustainability lies at the heart of our organisation. We want to shape healthier futures across our communities. 

What we're doing

We will increase energy efficiency, reduce our carbon footprint and improve living costs for our customers. Whenever possible, we will influence specifications and design to ensure that the new homes we build are sustainable. We will work smarter and from office energy and electric vehicles through to our construction supply chain, we will create a greener future, together.

View our roadmap to net zero.

Current projects

Investment of £40million to help move all of our existing homes to an EPC rating of C and above by 2028 - Three quarters of our homes have already met this. 

No waste from our three main offices goes to landfill.

A Fabric First approach to building new homes.

Partnered with the University of Exeter's award-winning Green Consultants programme.

Our 2023/2024 sustainability report

Welcome to our fourth sustainability report, where we are delighted to share our ongoing commitment to sustainability in the social housing sector. As the largest social housing provider in the South West, we recognise our responsibilities and opportunities to make a real impact in the region. We have committed to this through our corporate strategies to maximise our social value, maintain strong governance and deliver on our environmental responsibility.

You can also read our 2022/23 report here. If you have further queries please contact investorrelations@livewest.co.uk

Read the report

Our sustainable finance framework November 2023

We believe that this Sustainable Finance Framework (the “Framework”) underscores and facilitates the long-term funding and execution of our sustainability priorities. It is important that the finance we raise in accordance with this Framework is transparently allocated to projects and initiatives that align with relevant sustainability standards and positively impact our underlying customers in a sustainable way.

Our stakeholders will appreciate that at the very core of our business lies the ambition to deliver better social and environmental outcomes for our customers. We seek to endorse this objective through our Framework.

If you have further queries please contact investorrelations@livewest.co.uk

Read the framework

 

SHIFT logoWe are proud to have been accredited with a SHIFT Gold award, following our fourth assessment. The SHIFT assessment measures how housing organisations are performing against over 22 environmental criteria, including CO2 emissions, water use, landfill waste and response to climate change. 

 

Help and advice

Find out how you can help us on our journey

We've put together some useful help and advice on how to be more environmentally friendly in and around your home

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