Urban Edge contributes to report on net-zero in the integrated retirement community sector

We were delighted to have supported Urban Edge Architecture with our copywriting services to produce their submission to ARCO’s recent Grey Going Green report, which highlights how the integrated retirement community sector can tackle the net zero carbon challenge.

Drawing on Urban Edge’s experience working with Inspired Villages to deliver the UK’s first net zero carbon (regulated energy) retirement community at Millfield Green in the village of Caddington, we set out some of the key learnings on net zero for both parties, the lessons that need to be taken further forward and the important questions clients who haven’t yet embarked on this path need to ask of themselves.

“We are pleased to have contributed to this important report and share our experiences of delivering net zero on real life projects throughout the UK. In sharing this knowledge, the integrated retirement communities sector can work together to ensure that the route to net zero carbon is both practicably and commercially achievable, meeting the needs of investors with an increasing focus on ESG solutions and discerning customers who want homes that are cleaner, greener and healthier.” – Darren Hodgson, Senior Associate Director, at Urban Edge

ARCO’s introduction to the report, which has seen members of its expert Advisory Council come together to highlight different areas of the net zero carbon agenda, states that “Integrated retirement communities can’t just have the longevity of older people as their mission. They must also have the longevity of our planet right at their core… the ambition of this report is to help set the integrated retirement community sector on the right track; to provide a strong foundation from which operators of all kinds can draw expertise and put net zero right at the heart of their work.”

Millfield Green and other similar integrated retirement community schemes that Urban Edge is working on in the Inspired Villages portfolio are leading the way on net zero and provide valuable lessons and insight for the sector to take forward.

You can read the full report, including Urban Edge’s ‘Learnings from working with IVG on their Net Zero Carbon Strategy HERE