Last year we made significant advances in delivering lasting economic, social and environmental benefit across our rural estates, thanks to several innovative, pioneering and far-reaching initiatives that improved both local property and places and enhanced sensitive environmental habitats. Highlights include a test case retrofit of a typical Victorian home, which enabled us to demonstrate how historic properties can outperform typical new builds on sustainability and energy efficiency. We transformed the underutilised rooftop of a city centre multi-storey car park into a unique and vibrant hospitality venue. We also planted the first of a planned million trees in the Scottish Highlands, continuing the delivery of a landscape-scale, ecosystem-wide, wild Atlantic salmon conservation project.
In the months ahead we will build on our natural capital baseline – the most detailed record of our natural environment – to enable more informed decisions that promote nature recovery and climate resilience, to develop plans to generate renewable energy from recycled manure on our farms, and to grow our British timber business as we strive to live up to our ambition of being a leading example of sustainability.
Nicholas Dobbs
Head of Grosvenor Family Office
and Rural Estates
We are responsible for the long-term stewardship of three rural estates in the United Kingdom: the Eaton Estate in Cheshire; the Abbeystead Estate in Lancashire; and the Reay Forest Estate, Sutherland, in the North-West Highlands of Scotland. Working to protect, enhance and restore sensitive environmental habitats, we seek to improve local property and places, contributing to the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the communities we are part of.
We are responsible for the long-term stewardship of three rural estates in the United Kingdom: the Eaton Estate in Cheshire; the Abbeystead Estate in Lancashire; and the Reay Forest Estate, Sutherland, in the North-West Highlands of Scotland. Working to protect, enhance and restore sensitive environmental habitats, we seek to improve local property and places, contributing to the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the communities we are part of.