Treading lightly on the planet has always been second nature to Herefordshire events venue Crumplebury.
Now its focus on sustainability and responsible estate management has been recognised with two prestigious award nominations this autumn.
It’s been shortlisted for the 2022 Greengage Insights and Sustainability Awards, in the Sustainability Initiative of the Year Accommodation and Meetings Venues category.
It’s also in the running for Best Business and Conferencing Venue in the 2022/23 Visit Worcestershire Tourism Awards.
The 11-bedroom business, with its own farm-to-fork fine dining restaurant, luxury accommodation, organic farm, forestry operation and game shoot, opened in 2019.
The build, by Worcester architects Glazzards, was designed to carefully sit within the historic landscape of the Whitbourne Estate, which provided timber for the well-insulated spaces.
Biomass boilers – fed by waste timber from the estate forestry operation – heat the buildings and a bore-hole drilled in the spring supplies all water for the site.
Four EV charging points have been installed in the car park, and light and noise pollution from the buildings is minimised with state-of-the-art noise-limiting devices.
In addition, the Crumplebury Canopy Project encourages wedding and corporate guests to offset the carbon emissions created as they travelled to and from the venue by planting trees in the managed woodland.
www.crumplebury.co.uk