As we approach 20 years of innovation and impact in communities, Woodworks is Down to Earth’s most ambitious scheme so far!

  • Imagine putting communities at the very heart of designing and building homes, schools and hospitals in an inspiring manufacturing facility…
  • Imagine those community facilities being created from home-grown timber and natural materials…
  • Imagine the impact of delivering evidence-based health benefits and qualifications through offering these opportunities to some of our most “at risk” and excluded communities…

This and much more is what we are offering at Woodworks – a nature-centred, manufacturing facility designed for communities to create commercial grade wall panels for creating homes and civic infrastructure across the UK.

Offering the very best in modern methods of construction (MMC) and off site manufacturing (OSM), Woodworks brings together full community inclusion with the rigour and quality control of a commercial factory environment.

Walking the talk, the entire facility will be created not only with Welsh timber and natural materials, but it will be built by the communities the facility will serve.

The benefits and impacts are immense: true community empowerment through enabling the creation of critical community infrastructure, using only materials and methods which are good for nature and good for people.

  • Low embodied carbon materials – with home-grown timber from Wales
  • Super insulated – for ultra-low operational carbon – with bio (natural) materials
  • Solar centred design – renewable energy, natural light, passive heating
  • Full vapour permeability – or breathability
  • Nature centred design with biodiversity and access to the outdoors at the very heart

Planning Application

Entirely led by the Down to Earth architecture team, we submitted our pre-app in spring 2023 and submitted our full application to Swansea Council in June 2024.

We are due a planning decision any time now!

Thank you to People’s Postcode Lottery Innovation Fund for supporting our application to this stage.

Development timeline

Planning Application submitted
June 2024
Planning Application decision
between winter 2024 and spring 2025
Enabling works/ground works start:
winter 2025
Building the facilities with our groups start
winter 2025
Completion
spring 2027

Supporting our scheme

We are currently applying for major funding to develop out the facility.

If you’d like to support our work, please get in touch.

Ordering products

From spring 2027, we’ll be supplying Welsh timber construction panels for homes and community-wide infrastructure.

We’ll be supplying the Tai’r y cyd/pattern book system – entirely with Welsh timber and built entirely with our groups!

We’d like to start having conversations now for interested buyers, please do get in touch.

For more information call 01792 232 439
Or send us an email