A key part of delivering GLA Land and Property Limited’s (GLAP) Climate Action Strategy is ensuring that new developments are designed to be fit for the future- reducing operational energy, minimising embodied carbon and resilient to our changing climate.

To this end, Levitt Bernstein, Etude and Currie and Brown developed GLAP’s Environmental Sustainability Framework, which sets its ambition and commitments for new developments within the context of the climate emergency. The environmental metrics and key performance indicators have been developed through an evidence-based approach and stakeholder engagement. Creating a framework that seeks to balance deliverability with high environmental sustainability performance.

A supporting Homes for Londoners Environmental Sustainability Proforma has also been developed as a means of reporting against the metrics and key performance indicators.

About GLAP:

GLA Land and Property Limited (GLAP) is the Greater London Authority’s commercial subsidiary for property investment, development and asset management.

By working with their development partners, the GLA Group and local authority partners, GLAP seeks to deliver the Mayor’s priorities for London, for the benefit of Londoners. GLAP is using its land and property portfolio to:

• meet the Mayor’s objectives of building more and affordable homes
• create jobs supporting businesses
• make London a Net-Zero city by 2030, through activity such as disposals, acquisitions and asset management.

GLAP aims to deliver up to a total of 68,000 new homes on the Mayor’s land and joint venture interests, including homes delivered to date and looking ahead over the next 25 years.