Platform Housing Joins Wildlife-Friendly Homes Initiative
Platform Housing Group has joined the Homes for Nature campaign, an industry initiative developed by the Future Homes Hub to promote biodiversity in new housing developments.
The campaign encourages homebuilders to include wildlife-supportive features such as bird nesting bricks and hedgehog highways as standard in all new planning applications from September 2024 to 2030.
- Platform Housing will integrate at least one nesting brick or box per property
- Hedgehog highways linking gardens and green areas across its new sites
The group also plans to exceed the initiative’s core requirements through biodiversity training for staff and by adding bat roosts, insect bricks, sustainable drainage systems and pollinator-friendly landscaping where possible.
These measures form part of a wider sustainability strategy designed to embed ecological design into construction and planning.
Author's summary: Platform Housing joins Homes for Nature campaign.