Agile Design

Innovation & research led, we design & make inclusive low-Carbon homes, buildings & landscapes, that respect people & planet. Proud #50NewRadicals

[Agile Design @Agile_DesignUK]

Planning secured for @EmmausBristol for their rooftop community! 😎
15 #lowcarbon #affordablehomes at LHA rent for Companions & people in housing need in the heart of St Paul’s, #Bristol!
We’ve unlocked land hidden in plain sight.
Agile Design Innovation!
https://t.co/pFw7g9YUR3

[Agile Design @Agile_DesignUK]

It was great to have the Forestry Commission co host at @CLiCs_Centre.
The future of Housing starts in the forest!
#BuildWithCarbon
👇

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

This week we welcomed 20+ colleagues from across government, local authorities, and industry to the CLiCs Centre - Centre for Low & Innovative Carbon Solutions.

We co-hosted the day with Richard Stanford, CEO of the Forestry Commission.

The day focused on a simple but powerful idea:

The future of housing starts in a forest.

The proposition we describe as:

From Field and Forest to Front Door.

Nature captures carbon.
We store it in homes.
We create credits for the carbon storage and social impact to reduce the cost of those homes.

The day was not just about materials, it was about natural, human and financial ecosystems:

Forestry as Infrastructure - a strategic national resource.
Distributed Manufacturing - replacing high-risk, capital-intensive factory models with localised agile systems of delivery.
New Finance Flows - unlocking land and reducing cost of delivery through Carbon and Social Value Trading.
Delivering Social Impact at Scale - through programmes like Prisoners Building Homes and providing safe, civil, low carbon affordable homes for people in housing need.

We do housing as if people and nature matter!

#F4D #lowcarbon #affordablehomes #BuildWithCarbon #forestry

[Agile Design @Agile_DesignUK]

Cohousing, landscape and community fully integrated for ageing well!
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[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

We’ve just submitted a planning application for Halton Senior Cohousing Group!
Lucy Wood and Pat Steward worked closely with HSCG, a wonderful group of over 55s who choose to live together as a community.
Fourteen homes, shared landscaped gardens and a common house where neighbours will meet, eat and share support with each other. 
At Agile Homes we know that interdependence and independence combined for later life works.
The landscape design is core to how the design works, swales, planting and people flow together. We were able exceed the Biodiversity Net Gain target entirely on site, in a relatively dense layout. Ground screws, rather than trench foundations keeps the hydrology of the site intact!
The whole, definitely greater than the sum of its parts!
#Cohousing #communityled #lowcarbon #affordablehomes

[Craig White @TweetEco]

It’s cold and wet!
At Agile we know why we do what we do. Here’s our why.
#affordablehomes #HousingCrisis #homelessness

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

We have just submitted a planning application for 14 new homes and Common House for Halton Senior CoHousing group, but this one is a little different!
We call these homes Tam, and they can move!
But these are definitely not caravans! Instead they are built to meet and exceed Building Regulations like any other homes. Triple glazed and super-insulated, airtight and made of renewable materials, they are truly low-carbon.
So, we can lay them out using new and innovative integration with landscape and SUDs, creating a more coherent whole!
This is why we’re called Agile Homes!
We have worked closely with planners the local authority, landscape designers and engineers. A community-led development that sets a new and innovative standard for senior living.
Well done Lucy Wood, Pat Steward and the rest of the team at Agile!
#cohousing #communityled #lowcarbon #affordablehomes #SUDs #landscape

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

Carbon and Social Value Trading.
What’s that?
An affordable home has become the oxymoron of our time!
It’s time to think differently about how we deliver properly affordable homes.
At Agile Homes we’ve created a new finance flow we call CSVTs.
This is 52 seconds from a seminar we are doing in collaboration with Macildowie Recruitment and Retention that explains how it works.
Full video is here: https://t.co/5JZrWFq4tA

Not compulsory viewing, but we think it will make a difference and so could be worth the watch!
#affordablehomes #propertyladder

@SustMeme @VSfromCrisis

[Agile Design @Agile_DesignUK]

Carbon and Social Value Trading!
What’s that?
👇

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

Carbon and Social Value Trading.
What’s that?
An affordable home has become the oxymoron of our time!
It’s time to think differently about how we deliver properly affordable homes.
At Agile Homes we’ve created a new finance flow we call CSVTs.
This is 52 seconds from a seminar we are doing in collaboration with Macildowie Recruitment and Retention that explains how it works.
Full video is here: https://t.co/5JZrWFq4tA

Not compulsory viewing, but we think it will make a difference and so could be worth the watch!
#affordablehomes #propertyladder

@SustMeme @VSfromCrisis

[Agile Design @Agile_DesignUK]

@agile_homes @CLiCs_Centre Love it!

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

At @CLiCs_Centre the Sylva Foundation are our nearest neighbours.
We share a passion for wood!
How and where it grows, nature protected, what we can make from it.
The homes we make and all the things that make a home, are made from wood!
The collaboration is underpinned by R&D with Highland Heritage Woodworks, Grown in Britain and Agile Homes supported by the Forestry Commission.
Every thing shown here is grown, manufactured and made in the UK!
Whether it’s the wood, boards, homes, furniture or bird boxes!
We do it all for people and planet!
More on the way, watch this space!
🌱🌾🌳🏗️🏡🌍💚

[Jim McClelland @SustMeme]

Latest issue of @SustMeme Magazine:
♻️ #Plastic talks falter, but hope yet;
🌆 Future of #Building Efficiency;
🇵🇹 #Lisbon reverse-vending capital;
🪸 AI twin for coral #reef;
🚛 Zero-emission #hydrogen HGV;
🌎 What is a #sustainability career?
Read here: https://t.co/7e6H9USSCN

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

Schumacher said ‘Small is Beautiful - economics as if people mattered’
At Agile we agree but with a subtle difference! Instead we say:
Small is Beautiful - housing as if people and nature mattered!
And it turns out others agree!
The Stonebridge Park project for Places for People won a Bristol Civic Design Award this week!
Seven homes for formerly homeless people with complex needs, provide a safe, civil and low carbon home where they can rebuild their lives, set overlooking a valley that connects them to nature.
Well done Lucy Wood, Pat Steward , James Brown, Sarah Jones-Morris and the wider team at Agile Homes.
The award comes with a blue plaque too! 😎

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

It’s was great to be at the official opening of the new Sports Pavilion at Wolverley Church of England Secondary School!
In time honoured fashion a ribbon was cut and speeches given!
Well done Raise Partnership, Leonard Design and the Agile Homes team!
Thank you also to the @FootballFoundtn and @worcscc County Council for funding.
This is not just any sports pavilion! It’s a built on ground screws, strawbale insulated, pre-fabricated, modern methods of construction, triple glazed, super insulated, low carbon affordable sports pavilion!
This will be the first of many we hope!

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

Carbon and Social Value Trading
What’s that?
Join us to find out!
🗓️ 9th July
🕣 8:30 to 9:30
🎟️ Free!
👉 https://t.co/uTE9JrmNiw
An affordable home is the oxymoron of our time! That’s going to change.
Hear Craig White talk on how we’re bringing carbon credits to housing!
It’s time to #BuildWithCarbon

[Agile Design @Agile_DesignUK]

Yay! 🙌
Well done Team Agile!

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

Schumacher said ‘Small is Beautiful - economics as if people mattered’
At Agile we agree but with a subtle difference! Instead we say:
Small is Beautiful - housing as if people and nature mattered!
And it turns out others agree!
The Stonebridge Park project for Places for People won a Bristol Civic Design Award this week!
Seven homes for formerly homeless people with complex needs, provide a safe, civil and low carbon home where they can rebuild their lives, set overlooking a valley that connects them to nature.
Well done Lucy Wood, Pat Steward , James Brown, Sarah Jones-Morris and the wider team at Agile Homes.
The award comes with a blue plaque too! 😎

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

Could you be Agile’s investor 94?

🎉 Agile Homes is turning six years old as a startup! But where do startups get their investment from and how?

Vision and values lead the way, of course and we’re proud to be building low-carbon, affordable homes for people in housing need.

We couldn’t have done it without 93 amazing investors who backed us through HMRC’s Enterprise Investment Scheme. Agile gets rocket fuel to scale what we do and investors get to be part of the journey as well as tax relief on investment! Thank you HMRC!

We also have some new and exciting news!

With perfect timing, on the same day Rachel Reeves announced £39 bn in grants for new and affordable homes, Agile signed an agreement for a significant equity investment into the business!

I’d like to say we planned this with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but we’ll take the synchronicity win as a good sign!

Perhaps more importantly, this investment comes with a £25 m fund to pay for the building of new homes! The first projects will start on site in early 2026, and we will be building high-quality, low-carbon homes for people in profound need! Holding to our vision and values throughout! Watch this space for more on this.

If you’re interested in becoming Investor 94, we’d love to hear from you!

In the meantime you can see more of our work at https://t.co/59RPEDBfoi

At Agile we’re building homes that don’t cost the earth. 🌍🏠

The important information:

If you’re a high-net-worth individual or a self-certified sophisticated investor and interested in investing in Agile, please email [email protected] or DM me here.

NB Capital is at risk. Investments in unlisted shares may not be suitable for all investors and applies to UK taxpayers only. Tax relief will depend on individual circumstances and is subject to change by HMRC.

#AgileHomes #AffordableHousing #ImpactInvestment #LowCarbonLiving #HousingCrisis #SocialImpact #EISinvestment #EIS #StartupMilestone #HomesThatDontCostTheEarth

[Agile Design @Agile_DesignUK]

Zoom Boom housing!
What’s that?
👇

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

The Radical Housing Conference 2025 concludes June 11th in Edinburgh with the Zoomers & Boomers Soirée!
We’re part of the Edinburgh Architecture Fringe bringing together young & old to share their experiences of housing & perhaps how intergenerational housing could be a thing for change!
Join us from 6:00pm for a glass of something and some music from Zoë Bestel!

🎟️ https://t.co/PxRpF4hxQB

@SustMeme @ArchiFringe @WhatsOnEdinburg

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

Our last post on Agile Homes’ Tam move from Bristol to near Gloucester got a lot of positive reaction! Thank you!
Here’s a longer version that explains more on why Tam can meet housing need fast and flexibly.
Designed as permanent homes, with a 60 design life, like any conventional home, Tam Tam is also moveable! We flat pack Tam for installation and design them to be lifted out, keeping costs affordable.
They are triple glazed, super insulated and made using renewable, biogenic materials, minimising energy use, and carbon footprint.
We call this approach Build With Carbon. Nature has done the carbon capture, we do the carbon storage!
They are designed to meet Nationally Described Space Standards, Future Homes 2025 energy use and don’t compromise on build quality.
Whether as permanent, meanwhile or for emergency housing, Tam is worth taking a look at.
Designed initially to demonstrate that land is free and hidden in plain sight, and be unlocked quickly and easily to help fix the housing crisis, this Tam is now a home for a young man in need of specialised support.
Innovation like this will help fix the housing crisis.
To find out more visit https://t.co/59RPEDAHyK

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

At Agile Homes we love a bit of Grand Designs innovation and here's one of ours!
We've developed a new kind of timber board made entirely from UK grown timber & combined it with some Agile monocoque engineering!
We did it working with Highland Heritage Woodworks and @GrowninBritain. To show how more UK timber can find a home in high value, low-Carbon engineering.
Simpler spans, less material, less weight, lower carbon and lower cost!
With thanks to the Forestry Commission - Woods into Management Forestry InnovationFund, who we were delighted to host our @CLiCs_Centre near Culham.
Visit https://t.co/59RPEDAHyK to find out more.
@TimberDevUK @SustMeme

[Jim McClelland @SustMeme]

Latest issue of @SustMeme Magazine out now:
🤿 Discovery of giant #coral;
🚛 Cold chain delivers on #climate;
🇰🇪 Mapping #glacier loss in 3D;
🛣️ Green #hydrogen by the river;
🔥 #Wildfire alerts to save cedars;
🌲 AFOLU: #Data and collaboration.
https://t.co/0Dxo38ILCv

[Agile Design @Agile_DesignUK]

A great event and Part 3 coming soon!

[Craig White @TweetEco]

And that’s a wrap!
The Radical Housing Conference Part 2 was an amazing success.
What next?
Part 3 of course!
It’s in Edinburgh June 11th for the Zoomers & Boomers Soirée!
What’s that?!
Join us to find out!

https://t.co/i5hczYAPkk

[Craig White @TweetEco]

And that’s a wrap!
The Radical Housing Conference Part 2 was an amazing success.
What next?
Part 3 of course!
It’s in Edinburgh June 11th for the Zoomers & Boomers Soirée!
What’s that?!
Join us to find out!

https://t.co/i5hczYAPkk