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Rebecca Evans AM Minister for Housing & Regeneration and launch of Home Grown Homes Project

The Home-Grown Homes Project

Yn agored a blaengar - Open and enterprising

Prosiect Tai o Bren Cynhenid

Now is the time to do things better and different:

• Grenfell and Carillion
• Climate Change
• Skills shortages
• Shift to offsite
• Brexit
• New timber technology (CLT, modified wood)
• Innovative Housing Programme

THE HOME-GROWN HOMES DELIVERY CONSORTIUM

Advised by The Home-Grown Homes Partnership

The Home-Grown Homes Exemplar Project

USING MORE TIMBER | CREATING BETTER HOMES DEVELOPING LOCAL SOLUTIONS

More & Better homes from wood More & Better local manufacturing More & Better home-grown timber

Welsh House Building Projects

Measuring and proving:

• The economic benefits
• The environmental benefits
• The social benefits

Supporting the design, procurement and performance of timber homes

“Powys County Council is determined to address the loss of young economically active households from our communities by creating jobs in the growth, harvesting, processing and manufacture of homes from natural timber resources grown in our rural communities.” Simon Inkson, Head of Housing, Powys CC

An all-Wales construction and forest sector development project

Delivered by Woodknowledge Wales with consortium partners Cardiff Met, Coed Cymru & TRADA Funded by Welsh Government & EU Led by Powys County Council Improving the supply

• f home-grown timber

Creating higher performance timber components & OSM solutions OUTPUTS

Case studies Design tools Procurement tools Evidence Guidance Training & skills

Because, let’s face it… Steel, concrete and plastic are so last century