Fact:
Of the 30 leases and licences granted in conjunction with DTI for offshore windfarms, four are already producing electricity
Targets 2007/08
The Way We Do Business
1. To influence corporate responsibility policy within legal business partners at an awareness raising workshop hosted by The Crown Estate and facilitated by expert consultants.
Our Customers
2. To develop a mechanism for rural tenants which allows the promotion of their businesses and products.
3. To offer advice and partnership investment opportunities to rural tenants aimed at enabling them to diversify and access national retail markets through high value sustainable goods.
4. To secure commitment from 100 farm tenants to undertake the LEAF Audit.
Our People
5. To increase, by 10%, time spent by employees on volunteering.
6. To establish the level of CR awareness and understanding amongst employees and produce recommendations to increase awareness including organising at least four educational or awareness-raising events for staff on relevant CR issues.
The Environment Around Us
7. To adopt a tailored environmental performance index for the business activities of the Windsor estate.
8. To review the procurement of office supplies with London Remade (the Mayor's Green Procurement Code) in order to increase the proportion of recycled and fairtrade products purchased.
9. To work with the appointed Carbon Trust consultant to establish the carbon footprint (based on energy consumption and transport emissions) of our HQ buildings and (in liaison with urban) of common areas of urban close-managed buildings.
10. The marine estate will have an operational spatial planning process in place based on the principles of sustainability by the end of the financial year.
11. To reduce the carbon dioxide emissions associated with energy use in those parts of the urban estate that are under our direct control by 3% compared with 2006-07 levels (like for like properties only).
12. To achieve 100% of the objectives agreed for completion by the end of the financial year as set out in the housing energy efficiency strategy report.
13. To engage with a “centre of excellence” to advise on carbon, climate change and sustainable development initiatives and consequently commission a carbon audit of the rural estate.
14. To develop a green travel plan for the HQ building, 16 New Burlington Place.
15. To achieve carbon neutrality for direct activities undertaken by the marine team and their managing agents by the end of the financial year. To require all new contracts placed from now on with agents to place the obligation on them to be carbon neutral with regard to business undertakings of The Crown Estate's behalf.
16. For the marine estate to be facilitating the displacement of 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by the end of financial year from the farming of its natural resources.
The Wider Community
17. To become a founding member of the Westminster Small and Minority Business Council and contribute to its work where it is consistent with the nature of our business. To encourage managing agents to support small and minority owned businesses within the West End.
18. To pilot flagship sustainability performance standards in a residential development scheme on the Patshull estate, Shropshire.
19. To carry out visitor surveys in selected areas to ascertain usage, public opinion and understanding of the Windsor Great Park including the ecological impact of human activities.
20. To set up a give as you earn scheme for employees and achieve at least a bronze award under the payroll giving quality mark.