Driving environmental value

Our unique portfolio of holdings in the rural, urban and marine environments brings highly specific environmental responsibilities and challenges. We believe that the efficient and responsible use of resources drives value for our own business and our customers - not only by managing costs effectively but by creating opportunities.

Our approach

We meet our responsibilities and drive value by:

Promoting better estates

Applying a systematic approach for continuous improvement:

Discover how we are working towards achieving ISO 14001 environmental management systems certification for all our directly managed property.

Cutting water use

Using resources efficiently and responsibly:

Most water consumption in properties under our control occurs on our urban and Windsor estates and we have been working for a number of years to improve water efficiency by fixing leaks and installing meters.

Reducing waste

Using resources efficiently and responsibly:

Our aspiration is to send zero non-hazardous waste to landfill. Waste targets for developments and major refurbishments are set in Sustainability Implementation Plans according to our urban sustainability development guide.

Managing biodiversity

Acting in accordance with our biodiversity action plans:

Biodiversity is an important part of our sustainability strategy and our statutory obligations require us to take account of biodiversity conservation. Find out how we've been putting our biodiversity plan into action.

Our approach is founded on applying environmental management systems to the activities we control. Through our environmental performance index (EPI) we monitor performance quarterly on waste, water and biodiversity. Beyond the areas we control directly, we work with business partners, customers and wider stakeholders to better understand environmental issues and ways in which we can work together to manage them.