28/03/2026
This week we welcomed 20+ colleagues from across government, local authorities, and industry to the CLiCs Centre - Centre for Low & Innovative Carbon Solutions.
We co-hosted the day with Richard Stanford, CEO of the Forestry Commission.
The day focused on a simple but powerful idea:
The future of housing starts in a forest.
The proposition we describe as:
From Field and Forest to Front Door.
Nature captures carbon.
We store it in homes.
We create credits for the carbon storage and social impact to reduce the cost of those homes.
The day was not just about materials, it was about natural, human and financial ecosystems:
Forestry as Infrastructure - a strategic national resource.
Distributed Manufacturing - replacing high-risk, capital-intensive factory models with localised agile systems of delivery.
New Finance Flows - unlocking land and reducing cost of delivery through Carbon and Social Value Trading.
Delivering Social Impact at Scale - through programmes like Prisoners Building Homes and providing safe, civil, low carbon affordable homes for people in housing need.
We do housing as if people and nature matter!
