Communities

Supporting sustainable communities is a key priority for Persimmon. Our transforming communities sustainability pillar complements this priority for the business.

Creating sustainable places for our communities and customers is at the heart of our business. We have established a ‘Placemaking Framework’ that provides a structure for each of our developments to follow, providing a sense of place and ensuring we deliver attractively designed communities with valued green open spaces that are well connected to local amenities.

Connecting people with nature

Creating sustainable communities is a key driver embedded within our Placemaking Framework, where the importance of creating nature-rich opportunities and green spaces is well recognised to support wellbeing.

Our focus is on delivering quality affordable homes and creating sustainable places. Our new developments are increasingly featuring enhanced green spaces, including allotments and orchards, to enable healthy lifestyles. We are proud to create spaces that bring families and communities together, provide opportunities to reconnect with nature, and strengthen well-being.

We are also committed to delivering greater than 10% Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) across our developments.

As part of the Homes for Nature commitment, we have started to include swift bricks and hedgehog highways across our developments, alongside nature-supportive planting. These features are installed along with guidance from ecological consultants to ensure they meet local wildlife needs.

Leaving a lasting legacy

As a national business with a local presence, we are committed to leaving a lasting legacy for the communities in which we work. We support c.23,500 jobs across the supply chain and c. 96,000 jobs across the wider community. Our developments engage local suppliers and tradespeople, supporting the local economy.

Each of our operating businesses has detailed knowledge of its local communities. In addition to delivering much-needed, attractively priced homes to local people, our teams support them in many other ways, engaging with them to design and develop areas that suit their needs, provide infrastructure and support local charities.

Local young people also benefit from our commitment to supporting education and providing opportunities. Through the Persimmon Ambassador programme, which started in 2024, we attend school and college events, providing career advice. We sit on education boards to help shape the curriculum to provide construction skills for the future.

We further support colleges with material donations, including bricks from our Brickworks factory, and regularly sponsor college award ceremonies.