Greenoak relaunches sustainability event series at WWF headquarters
WWF’s headquarters, the Living Planet Association in Woking, will host the first in a series of sustainability events by Greenoak Housing Association.
Taking place on 14 October, the event will see the association, which oversees 550 homes across Surrey, East and West Sussex, teaming up with speakers from architects Studio Partington and fellow housing association Stonewater.
Running from 12:30 to 4pm, the session will discuss issues including building standards for low carbon projects, the transition to providing zero-carbon housing along with a panel discussion, reaffirming the organisation’s commitment to sustainability and sharing good practice.
Earlier this year the two housing associations proposed a partnership in order to drive a net zero agenda and deliver sustainable homes.
Vicki March, Director of Development and Sustainability at Greenoak said: “Climate change mitigation has been at the centre of Greenoak for over 20 years. We adopted our first sustainability policy in 1999 where we moved away from developer-led and design and build schemes to developing low environmental impact housing using expert design teams.
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“Our previous series of sustainability events came to an end in 2017 and with delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic, now is the perfect opportunity for us to revive our sustainability series to really focus on transitioning to a zero-carbon organisation and sharing our insight from this process.
“By bringing in the expertise from Stonewater, which shares our ambition to grow with a commitment to sustainability, we’re further strengthening the relationship following our partnership proposal.”
Adam Masters, Assistant Director of Environment and Sustainability at Stonewater said: “We’re excited to be participating in the inaugural relaunch of Greenoak’s sustainability series as the relationship between our two organisations is based on a shared commitment to environmental sustainability.
“With a wide range of challenges facing the sector, a partnership with Greenoak will enable us to be at the forefront of combatting environmental issues and the sustainability series is just one of the steps we’re taking to build collaboration.”
Vicki added: “We look forward to welcoming delegates from other housing associations, Councils and organisations across the sector to the event at this highly sustainable and beautiful building, which is the world headquarters of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
“We hope the discussions that take place will help inspire others to continue on their own pathway to the important actions needed.”
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Featured image: Zero Carbon Sustainability event launched by housing association at WWF headquarters, Woking. Credit: Greenoak
