Hotel in running to win green award

Goodwood Hotel has secured a place as a finalist in the race to win a sustainable business award.

The hospitality industry Catey award recognises companies nationwide that have taken the most innovative steps to neutralise their impact on the environment in the past 12 months.

Entertaining and hospitality managing director Andrew Coggings said: “This is a huge achievement within Britain’s hospitality industry and we are proud to share some of the measures we have taken for the hotel to become a truly sustainable business.”

Some of Goodwood’s new sustainability measures include investing in a £6million biomass wasteto energy facility to provide both hot water and electricity for The Goodwood Hotel.

The new biomass system was installed on the estate during the pandemic. It was turned on last November, delivering combined heat and power to the hotel.

It is fuelled by 3,500 tonnes of straw from Festival of Speed, 2,600 tonnes of woodchip from Goodwood’s forestry team and 1,000 tonnes of waste wood from across the estate.

These measures will save the estate 5,100 tonnes of CO2 and enable the hotel to become carbon neutral.

With carbon emissions being identified as a significant reason for climate change, Goodwood, a 12,000-acre events and hospitality estate, has committed to become a carbon-neutral estate by 2030.

Winners will be announced on July 5 in London.