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Barratt Corporate Responsibility Update 2007

Our Environmental Charter

Barratt Developments supports the need for progressively higher standards in the built environment and is committed to delivering these as quickly and as cost effectively as possible. We will focus our efforts on reducing our own and our customers’ environmental impact improving the environmental quality of what we build.

Managing our own environmental impacts

1. We will put in place a comprehensive measurement system based on ISO 14001 for our company’s impact on the environment covering our offices, transport and sites. This will include energy, water and waste.

2. We will set ambitious targets to reduce our impact in each of these areas by 20% over the next 3 years. At the end of that time we will consider using offsets to set a carbon cost for the organisation as a further driver to reduce energy consumption.

3. We will procure all electricity used in our offices and sites from renewable sources.

Helping our customers to improve the environment

4. Barratt homes will be installed with A rated domestic appliances where they are available as part of a new home sale.

5. All of our new homes will be offered with a green tariff for electricity as standard, at no extra cost to the home buyer.

6. We will use our purchasing capability and start to offer new homeowners energy saving packages including energy meters, solar panels at cost price and increasingly as standard.

Improving the environmental standards of what we build

7. We are committed to resolving the issues that need to be tackled to achieve zero carbon homes by 2016. We will invest in building prototypes such as the Green House at the Building Research Establishment and major initiatives such as the Carbon Challenge development at Hanham Hall. We will work with our suppliers to provide technological solutions to deliver zero carbon affordably.

8. New planning applications promoted after 1st July 2008 will be to Code Level 3. We will have developed Code Level 4 compliant designs by 1st January 2010 and concluded the feasibility of Code Level 6 compliant designs by 2013 to facilitate meeting the 2016 zero carbon target.

9. We will enter into a partnership with an energy partner – Eon - to design, install and operate low carbon solutions for our major developments across Great Britain in the most cost effective way.

To underpin our commitment to this Charter we will bring together an advisory board comprising environmental partners to help guide and drive the company towards its environmental ambitions.

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