How do developers deliver genuine local benefit, and how are British Land and Art-Invest Real Estate going to deliver one of the largest regeneration areas in London for 50 years with sustainability and wellbeing at its core? These were questions addressed in two key events as part of 2024’s London Real Estate Forum, held at the City of London’s Guildhall on 25th September.
Presented by LREF in partnership with our development neighbours British Land, the Canada Water Place Panel provided attendees with a detailed update on progress from the site of British Land’s 53-acre Canada Water masterplan that Dockside sits alongside. Speakers — including British Land’s Hannah Farahar and Freddie Broadhurst, Waterman Group’s Charlie Scott, NLA’s Emily Gabb and East London Business Alliance’s Kita Berman van Heerden — addressed the development’s ambition to become one of the UK’s most sustainable large scale regeneration projects, setting new environmental standards and boosting opportunities and social and economic opportunities in the area. Scott delivered interesting insights into the different ways British Land is minimising waste by designing parts of this project to be able to include leftover parts from previous projects (such as wrongly ordered windows from a former site that are now being intentionally used at Canada Water) while simultaneously ensuring that parts that do need to be produced as new are made in ways that allow to be disassembled safely and potentially reused in the future.
