Good Homes Charter Mark

The Good Homes Charter Mark will be clear and ambitious benchmark for the good practice in housing design, delivery and performance. Open to GHA members, it recognises projects that go beyond minimum standards to deliver truly high-quality, future-ready homes.

The Charter Mark is awarded to both new build and retrofit projects that demonstrate excellence across five key delivery outcomes – these are underpinned by a sixth, core requirement: post-occupancy evaluation (POE), ensuring homes perform in use as intended.

We are introducing the GHA Charter Mark in response to a gap in current standards and regulations, which often focus too narrowly on energy efficiency and fail to distinguish truly exemplary homes. The Charter Mark sets out a more holistic definition of best practice, helping industry and the public recognise homes that deliver outstanding performance, quality and long-term value.

We know that viability is a key concern, and so the charter mark aims to promote homes and processes that are viable.  This project is aiming to give recognition to our members who are already going beyond.  It is not intended as additional paperwork, or construction cost.