Homes + Nature,
paired for good.
We create thriving, affordable communities paired with native nature restored for good, and prove the model pays its way so others can adopt it.
Where we are in Ireland
We'd been aiming to complete our first Irish homes, a five-home pilot, in summer 2027. That's no longer realistic. It won't be before 2028, and we won't give a new date until we can stand behind it.
Our current focus is England, where the law already requires developers to pay for nature recovery. It's a faster, lower-cost way to prove the model works.
Ireland is still very much in our plans. Our research with Trinity College Dublin continues, and so do our Irish partnerships. Everything we prove in England makes the Irish homes stronger and more likely to happen.
There are currently no NeighbourWood homes for sale or reservation in Ireland.
The idea
In our Irish design, ten net-zero homes would be permanently linked to one hectare of new native woodland, held by an independent trust. The homes and the woodland would sit on separate sites, within 20 km of each other, joined by a permanent legal covenant, access rights and community programming. As the woodland matured, the carbon, biodiversity and water value it created would help make future homes more affordable. This isn't a trade-off between housing and nature. It's an integration that makes both more valuable.
Two Crises. No Integrated Solution.
Europe is 9.6 million homes short. Over 80% of its habitats are degraded. The EU has appointed its first Housing Commissioner and passed the Nature Restoration Law — binding targets to restore 20% of land by 2030.
Developers optimise for built area — every hectare of woodland is lost revenue. Conservation organisations can protect land but can't deliver housing. Policy creates mandates without delivery models.
No one profitably delivers affordable, net-zero housing that meets Europe's ecological mandate. NeighbourWood is designed to solve both at once.
Why Ireland.
Ireland needs 300,000 new homes by 2030, and delivered 36,284 in 2025. It has less than 2% native woodland with 8,000 hectares/year needed, and planted 1,573 in 2024. It has committed to net-zero by 2050, is falling short of its carbon budgets, and is bound by the EU Nature Restoration Law to restore 20% of degraded land by 2030.
Ireland has both the need and the policy environment for the 10:1 Model.
The research
Our research partnership with Trinity College Dublin is backed by two Enterprise Ireland Innovation Vouchers. It feeds the NeighbourWood Restoration Standard (NRS): an independent way to verify carbon, biodiversity, and water outcomes from restored native woodland.
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