Green Credentials

We’re committed to fostering sustainable golf practices to secure long-term ecological success. Our initiatives so far include: 

• Planting 60,000 trees in 40 years 
• Proactive woodland management 
• Stacking fallen trees for wildlife 
• Managing hedges for bird-nesting 
• On-site composting of grass and leaves 
• Integrated pest management with minimal chemical damage to the environment 
• Regular ecological assessments with English Nature, Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI), and the English Golf Union (EGU)
• Collaborating with various entities to ensure best practices are maintained 
• Registering and securely storing hazardous materials  
• Recycling rainwater from our buildings to irrigate our golf courses and orchards 
• Implementing a sophisticated water resource management system 

We’ve implemented efficient energy and waste management systems to create a greener and more eco-friendly environment, including:  

• Using local providers for produce and supplies 
• 60% of hotel lighting uses low-energy lamps 
• Bedroom heating and lighting activates with key cards 
• Public areas use movement detector sensors for lighting 
• We’ve installed time-operated heating systems  
• Guests are encouraged to reuse towels and linens 
• Inverter-driven heating systems are installed  
• We have water savers in all flushing toilets 
• Fluorescent lamps are disposed of appropriately 
• Oil and chemical catchment tank fitted in storm drain 
• Thermal covers on the swimming pool and spa to prevent heat loss  
• Reclaimed heat from the pool warms air  
• Low chemical usage in the pool 
• Recycling kitchen oil 
• Recycling bottles 
• Reusing envelopes and paper for internal comms 
• Promoting email usage to save paper 
• Recycling empty ink cartridges and toners 

Heat by-product from the AD plant is used to dry woodchip for biomass boilers to heat our soft fruit glasshouses, and the digestate from the AD plant is industrially dried on-site to provide rich organic fertiliser for our golf courses and orchards.

We harvest millions of litres of rainwater from our soft fruit glasshouses and feed it back into our reservoirs to be recycled as irrigation water for our fruit and golf courses – a perfect circular economy.

Our innovative, sustainable techniques used in our fruit growing have resulted in awards for Best Top Fruit Grower, and Best Soft Fruit Grower of the year awards (2015 and 2019).

In 2019, we won an international AD and Biogas Award, competing with companies in London and abroad.  We have also won a Sustainable Tourism award for our Hotel, Golf and Spa resort and one for Best Green Farming Enterprise.  We are proud to be an “Anglian Business Green 100" company.