NextGeneration reveals sustainability performance of the UK’s top homebuilders

NextGeneration is celebrating it’s 20^th Anniversary of assessing the UK homebuilding sector’s sustainability performance.

This year the NextGeneration results were announced at the launch on the 30^th of April, which brought together developers and investors from across the sector. As part of this, NextGeneration has released its annual report which names Latimer as the highest-ranking homebuilder.

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Latimer has secured top position in the NextGeneration Benchmark. After ranking fourth in 2023 and second in 2024, this achievement underscores Latimer’s dedication to enhancing the sustainability of its homes and operations. London Square showed substantial improvement, rising from fourth to second place, while Bellway Homes gained 10 points, rising from 9^th to 3^rd place and surpassing the Gold Award threshold. Rounding out the top five are Hill Group and Taylor Wimpey, both achieving Silver Awards. There has also been a notable score improvement from non-member Keepmoat, who has risen from 11^th to 6^th place, with an increase of 4 points from 2024.

In addition to securing the top position in the NextGeneration Benchmark, Latimer are recognised for the transparency and quality of their sustainability reporting through achieving the NextGeneration Crystal Award, which celebrates the homebuilder that meets the most criteria through publicly available information alone.

In further news, NextGeneration published the 2025 Annual Report today, please find the new report on our website here.

James Parker, Senior Sustainability Manager, at Latimer said: “The NextGeneration Benchmark has been a great tool for us to measure our sustainability performance each year. From starting our sustainability journey five years ago we have been able to see the results of our efforts reflected in our NextGeneration score and confirm our progress to become the highest scoring not-for-profit housebuilder. Having a clear set of criteria has allowed us to set suitable targets and provide direction to our project teams, who are ultimately the people behind our successes.”

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Chris Yau, Director of Housing & Sustainability, Lloyds Corporate & Institutional Banking said: “The housebuilding sector's transition to Net Zero is fundamental to the resilience of both the industry and wider UK economy. We must deliver high quality, low carbon homes, that are fit for purpose to ensure we create inclusive and sustainable communities. The NextGeneration Benchmark helps to provide a roadmap to housebuilders and developers to turn ambition into credible action and delivery.”

Ed Lockheart, Chief Executive, Future Homes Hub said: "To accelerate the delivery of high-quality, sustainable homes, industry collaboration is essential. The Future Homes Hub is therefore delighted to have partnered with NextGeneration to align our respective reporting frameworks. This alignment streamlines data collection metrics, reducing the reporting burden on homebuilders with the desired goal of making sustainability reporting and benchmarking more accessible across the industry.”

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NextGeneration encourages companies to report against a range of criteria that has been developed in collaboration with the industry for 20 years to support high-quality sustainable homebuilding. NextGeneration’s strategic partnership with the Future Homes Hub has been instrumental in this collaborative approach, aligning our standards and measurement frameworks to enhance accessibility of sustainability reporting and accelerate industry-wide adoption of best practices. The NextGeneration Benchmark consists of 38 criteria, and 132 sub-criteria, which cover the following eight sections: 1) Strategy & Reporting, 2) Health, Safety & Environmental Management, 3) Procurement, 4) Energy & Carbon, 5) Circular Economy, 6) Ecology & Water, 7) Communities, Customer Engagement & Placemaking, 8) Socio-Economic Development.

The NextGeneration Benchmark process is:

Selection: NextGeneration selects the largest 25 homebuilders in the UK for benchmarking, based on their housing turnover and annual completions, alongside any further homebuilders interested in benchmark membership.

Phase 1: Homebuilders are assessed on their publicly available sustainability information, against the 60+ public criteria of the benchmark, covering the ESG spectrum. Phase one is weighted as 60% of the overall benchmark.

Phase 2: NextGeneration members paying an annual subscription provide internal sustainability information to be benchmarked. Phase 2 is weighted as 40%.

Results: The marks from each of the homebuilders assessed are collated and published annually within the benchmark. Each member receives a bespoke presentation of their results, breaking down areas of strength and where there is room for development.

The criteria are available to the public on the NextGeneration website. All UK homebuilders are encouraged to use them to assess current performance and as a guide to further improve the sustainability of homes and operations.

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NextGeneration 2026 Evolution:

NextGeneration is delighted to announce the Benchmark is evolving for 2026 onwards, to better support homebuilders deliver sustainable homes and places. Historically the Benchmark has assessed both public and internal sustainability information, but for the next cycle, NextGeneration will only focus on publicly available information. Furthermore, the criteria will be streamlined to more specifically focus on high-impact metrics that will continue to drive meaningful change within the sector.

For homebuilders, this will mean:

• You can access detailed insights of your performance against the sector through results presentations, which would be available for a smaller fee than membership.
• The criteria will be more streamlined reducing the reporting burden on you.
• Time will no longer be required for collating internal evidence as part of Phase 2.

About NextGeneration

NextGeneration is the industry’s sustainability assessment framework, promoting greater levels of sustainable development to UK homebuilders. It enables homebuilders, Government, registered providers, investors, employees and the public to understand the sustainability of homebuilders’ operations and the new homes they build.

Companies represented in the benchmark have a total annual housing turnover of £34.9bn and have completed a total of 107,752 houses in the past year. The benchmark has been running for 20 years and works by inspiring companies to report their sustainability performance.

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