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.

In July 2024, we signed up to the Future Homes Hub Homes for Nature commitment, which is a sector-wide initiative aimed at protecting vulnerable and endangered species and providing places for our wildlife to live.

Leaving a lasting legacy

We are a national business with a local presence.

Persimmon is committed to leaving a lasting legacy in the communities in which we work. We support c.44,300 jobs across the supply chain and c.78,800 jobs across the wider community. Our developments engage local suppliers and tradespeople, supporting the local economy.

Each of our operating businesses have regional teams with detailed knowledge of the communities in which they operate. In addition to supporting communities through the delivery of much needed, attractively priced homes, our teams support them in a number of other ways, engaging with them to design and develop areas that suit their needs, providing local infrastructure and making charitable donations to support local charities.

We are committed to supporting education and providing opportunities for young people in areas we operate. We attend events at schools and colleges, providing career advice and guidance to young people and 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.

Full details regarding our transforming communities sustainability pillar can be found in the sustainability section of our Annual Report 2024.