Nature on Your Doorstep
Spaces That Grow With the Community.
A Home for Nature
Across our developments, you'll find features that support nature as well as everyday living.
Wildflower areas, green open spaces and sustainable drainage features all help create a landscape that feels alive and evolving. These spaces bring colour, support local wildlife and give you more to enjoy close to home.
Giving Hogs a Home.
Hedgehog Highways
Hedgehogs are incredibly important as they are known as an indicator species, this means that by monitoring hedgehogs' habits we can tell a lot about our ecosystem and the health of our local environment.
If you are lucky enough to have a hedgehog highway in your new home, you will find that your fence panels will have a small 13cm square opening at ground level.
This is about the size of a CD case and you will likely have them on either side of your garden. At this size, these openings are too small for most pets but provide valuable accessibility for hedgehogs to freely roam.
The Swift Summer House.
Swift Bricks
We are installing S-bricks* into our homes to help conserve Swifts, one of the UK's most endangered birds.
Swifts migrate from the UK every August, flying from our roofs all the way to Southern Africa and back again, crossing the Sahara twice and not landing until their return the following May. During their short stay, Swifts manage to raise a single family of two chicks.
As well as providing the Swift with a home, you will have the pleasure of watching these incredible birds swoop around the house throughout the summer months.
*S-bricks are sealed metal boxes with a brick front that matches the façade of the building to blend in.
A Safe Space for Bats.
Bat Boxes
Bats are an important part of healthy ecosystems across the UK. Although they are often unseen, these small nocturnal mammals play a vital role in keeping nature in balance.
Bats rely on safe roosting places for resting during the day, raising their young and sheltering through the winter. By installing bat boxes, our new developments can offer bats a secure place to rest, raise their young and shelter during colder months.
Supporting bats in this way helps protect local wildlife and contributes to healthier ecosystems, where these important insect-eating mammals can continue to thrive alongside our communities.
Building a Sustainable Future.
Future Homes Hub
Tilia Homes are proud to be active members of the Future Homes Hub.
The Future Homes Hub has been established to facilitate the collaboration needed within and beyond the new homes sector to help meet the climate and environmental challenges ahead.
The Future Homes Standard represents a fundamental shift in home building, creating a clear performance distinction between new builds and the existing housing stock.
You can find out more at futurehomes.org.uk
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