The Environment Agency reported on 3 September 2026 that BDW Trading, part of the Barratt Redrow group, would pay £201,500 to environmental charities after silt was jetted into watercourses. The agency said silt blasted from the drains of the company's Ladden Garden Village development in Yate polluted the Ladden Brook and Tanhouse stream over six days in July 2022, after a contractor jet washed silt while cleaning and surveying land drainage.

BDW Trading acknowledged responsibility and spent over £180,000 on remediation, staff training and better surface water practices, according to the release. The agency accepted a legally binding enforcement undertaking, an alternative to prosecution. James Edees of the Environment Agency said an incident like this would not have happened with proper procedure in place, but the company's cleanup and investment meant an undertaking could be accepted on this occasion.

Projects named as benefiting included £165,000 to the Bristol Avon Rivers Trust for River Chew catchment fish recovery, community engagement and eDNA fish monitoring; £11,500 to the Tortworth Forest Centre in Gloucestershire for a woodland wellbeing programme and tree planting; and £25,000 to the Avon Wildlife Trust for a community ecologist. BDW Trading also paid the agency's costs and acquired a permit for water discharges.