Green spaces are hugely important to people. As well as providing a place of recreation, they also provide a degree of flood attenuation, summer cooling, air cleansing, biodiversity and carbon sequestration. All these benefits are increased when the amount of...
At SHIFT we help landlords prepare roadmaps for net zero carbon. One of the things we have noticed is that including the new build departments in holistic net zero roadmaps can lead to significant savings to whole life costs. This is even if there is a little “over...
SHIFT, the sustainability standard for housing and the supply chain, works with social landlords that are dedicated to creating a sustainable future, delivering high quality homes and improving the wellbeing of both residents and employees. Recently, many clients have...
To help you save time and resources we have written a Step-by-Step guide to help aid and encourage our clients to sign PDF forms electronically. It saves resources by eliminating the need to print so many documents (saving paper and ink) and reduces the amount...
To mark International Day of Happiness (20th March 2020) we’ve put together some statistics to show how close we are to a goal of 100% long term wellbeing. These figures include environmental protection which is so crucial to securing our supplies of basic needs such...
Our SHIFT Assessor, Sam McConnochie, has recently learnt that he won the Royal Geographical Society Planning and Environment Research Group’s prize! This is a national award that goes to the best undergraduate dissertation relating to planning, environmental...
Over 280 local and major councils have declared a climate emergency in 2019 alone and many housing associations are looking to identify what they can do to ensure they are responding positively to council ambitions for carbon reduction. With the Forest of Dean...
A few months ago, Inside Housing magazine asked us to contribute to an article on social housing and climate change. We based our information on our Housing 2050 research which can be downloaded from here: Housing 2050. Here’s what we wrote: Introduction Government...
The Government’s recent Green Finance Strategy states, “The Government expects all listed companies and large asset owners to be disclosing in line with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations by 2022.’ There is no specific...
There has been a slight decline in overall happiness and wellbeing, with the specific environmental data revealing that our environmental security continues to face sustained pressure. Water security has been negatively impacted this year and this is most likely...
At our recent SHIFT event entitled, “Sustainability and Value For Money”, we heard from specialist speakers who highlighted the financial benefits to social landlords from pursuing environmental strategies. Representatives from 18 housing associations managing over...
For various reasons, including our carbon footprint, we decided on a staycation this year. The accommodation was our own home and no long car journeys or plane rides were involved. We “visited” 5 countries, had a couple of ‘resort days’, (i.e. chill out and mooch...
A housing association client of ours needed to replace old storage heaters with a new electrical heating system. Rather than a like-for-like replacement, they wisely decided to monitor the energy and cost performance of 3 different potential replacement systems before...
In July 2019, the UK Government revealed its eagerly awaited Green Finance Strategy which signalled that investment and funding shall be made available for green projects such as homes and other infrastructure. The strategy aims to put financial services at the heart...
There has been a slight improvement in overall happiness and wellbeing, with the specific environmental data revealing that our environmental security continues to face sustained pressure. Water security has been negatively impacted this year and this is most likely...
Suss Housing has received this message from PassivSystems. Please note, this is not necessarily an endorsement from Suss Housing, we are merely highlighting a funding opportunity. PassivSystems are delighted to announce the launch of their new heat pump monitoring...
SHIFT, the environmental reporting and accreditation scheme for social landlords, has a new home! Suss Housing is the new company that delivers SHIFT, which has been running since 2008.The reboot-ed SHIFT comes at a crucial time. The UK Parliament has declared a...
Some social landlords are finding that they have to comply with new environmental reporting regulations under Government’s new policy of Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR). Although not all landlords are captured this could be viewed as the thin-end of the...
