Responsible Ownership Policy for Property

Christ Church has developed and implemented a Responsible Ownership Policy for Property (ROPP). As long-term investors we have a particular interest in addressing our environmental and social responsibilities.

We recognise that property investment, management and development can have a very obvious and long-lasting impact on local communities, including our own in Oxford and surrounding areas. We are also conscious of the risks of climate change and the choices we can make to ensure that we positively impact the environment and help work towards achieving the United Kingdom’s carbon objectives.

ROPP guides responsible decision-making according to 7 Principles:

Connectivity, Identity, Community, Ecology, Energy, Carbon, Health and Wellbeing

ROPP has been endorsed by our Investment Group and our Finance Committee, taking into account its practical and financial implications and ensuring that we have an approach which we can implement efficiently, and has been ratified by our Governing Body. Consideration has been given to both governance and process, read more here.

Principles

Guided by sustainable property development experts at Igloo Regeneration, our property consultants at Savills, and our own team of in-house professionals and academics, we have co-created a set of seven Principles by which we would guide, and ultimately judge, our responsible approach to property investment, management and development. Within each principle there are environmental and social considerations:

ENVIRONMENTAL

Components that require research into a variety of elements that illustrate a development project's impact on the earth.

SOCIAL

Elements like organisational culture & relationships that impact employees, stakeholders, partners, communities, customers, consumers & suppliers.