City & Country Design & Planning Director speaks at The Timber Stage at FOOTPRINT+ Conference
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Simon Vernon-Harcourt, Design & Planning Director at City & Country presented and discussed the use of timber frames in housing delivery at the recent FOOTPRINT+ conference. Below are some of the key points discussed by Simon.
“Timber is robust and a long-term and sustainable way to build and shifting the mindset around timber is essential. We need to do something that hasn’t always been done and show the purchaser the benefits of timber frame homes."
"At City & Country we have researched a lot into the use of timber frames across our developments, and whilst the UK roadmap to promoting timber frames, we have a steep learning curve if we are to get close to Scotland’s timber housing. We are proud to be building with timber and using a material with lower embodied carbon“
“Recent Government figures estimating that England needs to build up to 300,000 new homes every year to tackle the housing shortage, fresh solutions are urgently required to speed up the building process."