Award recognises sustainability commitment

settle was pleased to be awarded the Silver accreditation for their first assessment by SHIFT, the sustainability standard for the housing sector.

The award recognises work already undertaken to embed sustainability across settle, with recommendations providing a clear roadmap to achieving the target of a Gold award by 2025. The SHIFT assessment monitors how organisations are delivering against challenging environmental targets, such as carbon emissions, water use and landfill waste, and helps improve performance moving forwards.

The award builds on commitments outlined in settle’s sustainability strategy, which shows how the organisation will support the national programme to decarbonise our economy, support residents in fuel poverty and invest in green spaces within neighbourhoods.

settle’s sustainability strategy

This builds on work settle have done already to outline the areas to focus on until 2025. As part of this, settle will:

• Reduce the number of residents in fuel poverty

• Invest in existing homes

• Build new sustainable homes

• Support the local economy

• Use their focus on sustainability to attract and retain colleagues to work at settle.

Gavin Cansfield, chief executive at settle said “We were really pleased to achieve Silver in our first accreditation by SHIFT. We’re committed to working in a sustainable way across all that we do at settle, making sure this delivers real benefits for our residents and communities. Our strategy sets out our priorities for working in a more sustainable way, as well as meeting the government’s targets for energy performance and decarbonisation. We’ll continue working closely with our customers and partners as we continue progressing our work around sustainability.”

You can read settle’s full sustainability strategy here.

Find out more about the SHIFT accreditation process here.