Captiva Homes has begun an ambitious tree planting scheme on the Island, participating in ‘The Queen’s Green Canopy’ initiative in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee, and supporting the Isle of Wight Council’s ‘Mission Zero’ strategy.
The Island housebuilder will be planting nearly 1,000 trees in Rookley around its new Highwood Grove development.
Parish Councillor Ian Rigaud-Barret joined Captiva Homes CEO, Iain Delaney, to plant 1 of the first trees on Wednesday 23rd March.
Iain explains:
“This marks the first step on an important journey towards Captiva Homes becoming carbon neutral as a business and to us offsetting the carbon we do generate here on the Island.
“As a local business, we are proud to have signed up to the Solent LEP’s Sustainable Business Support Programme and developed an Action Plan that supports the goal of achieving ‘net zero’ carbon by 2030. We have set ourselves some stretching sustainability goals and today’s planting is the first step towards achieving them. We look forward to sharing more details of our most ambitious targets over the coming months.”
The planting in Rookley has been coordinated by Glenn McGinness at ERMC. Glenns says:
“ERMC and our ranger team are delighted to have been able to collaborate on this project with the team at Captiva to offer new wooded areas in Rookley. We’ve planted a mixture of broadleaf trees including Sessile Oak, Rowan and Bird Cherry. All trees sourced are native, UK grown trees. It is a privilege to help shape the Island’s woodland future”
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The planting areas at Rookley have been chosen to help create wildlife corridors around the development that integrate with the surrounding area. This all forms part of Captiva Homes’ wider environmental and sustainability efforts at Highwood Grove which also include utilising energy efficient air source heat pumps for all homes, the placement of bat boxes around the development and the incorporation of ‘hedgehog highways’ into fencing.
The Highwood Grove development will be launching soon with the first homes expected to be ready for occupation this summer. For more information visit https://www.captivahomes.co.uk/highwood-grove.
Nice. But it doesn’t make up for all the land you have permanently wrecked with your unneeded benefit boxes.
Where’s that then think you need to actually look instead of talking rubbish
Totally agree , what a load of hogwash ,how many of these will be alive this time next year ?
Excellent, we need more of this. Return the fields to their original state. Farmers say they protect the land but most are keeping the land in an unnatural state for profit. The UK was once a vast forest.
Hmm, but we don’t need farmland turned into housing estates like Westridge Farm.
We should be planting trees in every unused field
Ah bless them (not)….
Think we would prefer green spaces rather than rabbit / guinea pig hutches ….
Sorry it really doesn’t cut the mustard for me !!!!!
How about building a bigger Hospital???? Making the roads better and not thinking about the dosh you will make ???,….
Thought so money Really is all that talks to some people!!!!!
And our planning committee ******* really need to think about the Infrastructure rather than the brown envelope in their pockets….
So where’s the rabbit huts then all the places iv seen them build are a decent size and a lot of young island people have move in .It’s better than large massive houses for which no one can afford here .well done I say
Just pop past Rookley post office the hutches are spreading like rabbits !!!!!!
Just pop by west St Wroxall more hutches appearing !!!!
Gunville …. East Cowes ….
Just drive around the island ….
Agree !
Its so green isn’t it ! About as green as my stained pants lol
Watermelon type green.Green on the exterior,Corporate-Marxist-red internally.Never before was a pleasant and humble colour so disingenuously misappropriated.
Any tree planting is welcome “don’t forget the hazelnut and chestnut for are friends the red squirrels” but is this a sprat to catch a mackerel
Planting and green my arse