Carbon road map

One of our biggest initiatives is to work with Land App and to use our estates and landscapes as an opportunity to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help preserve the environment around us. Making use of Land App brings technology and nature together and has helped us to plan and protect the legacy of our landscape and secure its future. Each estate has been surveyed, mapped, and planned to help us better understand each location’s habitats and to promote our stewardship of our local countryside and wider environment.

We’ve recently put in planning permission to increase our bedroom stock. Rather than extending the existing building, we’ve opted for eco lodges which have a low ecological footprint and use as many natural materials as possible and have high insulation values.

Across our properties we’ve 30 electric vehicle chargers for guests and employees and our golf buggies used on the courses and around the properties are all strictly electric too.

In Castle Combe at the Manor House, one of our most historic hotels, we’ve added solar panels to the golf clubhouse and on the green keepers’ buildings we’ve installed 160 solar panels to help power a new fleet of buggies. Figures suggest this installation alone will stop the release of 11,507kg of carbon dioxide per annum.

Down the road at the Castle Inn, we’ve moved from away from fossil fuels entirely by installing induction hobs in the kitchen.

And at Pennyhill Park, a new boiler is bringing 26% better efficiencies. These marginal gains are adding to our score and most importantly are enabling us to reduce our impact on the planet.

Our graduates, the voice of ours and the hospitality sectors’ future, have helped steer many of the projects focussed on reduce, reuse, and recycle. In the coming year they will continue their pursuit to reduce all of our single use plastics and to eliminate any food waste going to landfill.