Our Suppliers

As members of the Group’s wider workforce, the health, safety and wellbeing of our subcontractors is of paramount importance to us. This is demonstrated, for example, by the Group’s “Target Zero” behavioural health & safety campaign, raising workplace safety awareness and accountability with every team member to minimise incidents on our sites. Our subcontractors also take part in regular "Toolbox Talks" covering the health and safety aspects of our sites. To further support health and safety on site, the Group has a digitalised site induction process, which all subcontractors must complete before commencing work on any of our developments.

The Group has a strong commitment to, and fundamental respect for, human rights. The Group continues to take its role in combating modern slavery and human trafficking seriously, and has established robust controls, procedures, training and inspections to reduce exposure to this risk and to provide assurance that our employees and suppliers continue to work to the high standards we demand.

The Group’s centralised procurement department is responsible for managing the strong, longstanding relationships we hold with our strategic suppliers. These relationships and agreements allow the Group to establish consistent standards of quality, security of cost and supply of materials, while providing our suppliers with certainty over volumes, revenues and cash flows. Our engagement with our strategic suppliers also enables us to embed environmental and sustainability criteria as key requirements. We will also engage further with our suppliers to progress actions and opportunities following our assessment of the embodied carbon of five of our most popular house types.

Our operating businesses work closely with a large number of regional suppliers to secure locally sourced materials and engage with a large number of local subcontractors in the construction of our homes. In addition to supporting local economies, this ensures that the Group secures good availability of the skilled trades that we require locally and provides our local subcontractors with continuity and consistency of work. 

^{* Estimated using an economic toolkit.}