Sustainability in the West End

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Sustainability in the West End

Both climate change and air quality have a direct impact on how people experience our area and the growing climate emergency is becoming more apparent each and every day. We are therefore committed to migrating the West End to a net zero carbon economy and tackling issues including, carbon reduction, air quality and waste.

We offer our members the following services:

SUSTAINABLE CITY CHARTER: we are supporting the Westminster Sustainable City Charter and Westminster’s support programmes for businesses to reduce carbon emissions, details here.
GREEN LEASES: we promote the use of green leases to our property owner members. Advice on green leases can be found here.
BUSINESS CLIMATE CHALLENGE: delivering the Mayor of London’s and Bloomberg Associates funded programme to retrofit older buildings to reduce their emissions. More information here.
NET-ZERO CARBON: We support the transition to a zero-carbon West End. To help businesses improve their sustainability practices, we can provide resources about cycling & walking in the area, zero-emission vehicles & delivery services. More information here.
CLEAN AIR: We are working with West End estates and neighbouring Business Improvement Districts in the Zero Emissions Group, which is committed to reducing commercial vehicles and their emissions by 80%. More information here.
WASTE COMPACTORS: We secured Community Infrastructure Levy CIL funding from Westminster City Council to install waste and recycling compactors, which contribute to the reduction of commercial waste collections and increase recycling levels. More information here.
CYCLING: We are developing a programme of priority cycling, walking and public realms schemes to encourage Healthy and sustainable travel – visit westend2027.com to see this programme.

Placeshaping Strategy

Our Placeshaping strategy has over 40 sustainable streets and public realm projects to encourage more cycling and walking to and in the West End.

Working together

We work with our partners, including Westminster City Council’s (WCC) Climate Emergency and Smarter Cities team and the Mayor of London to ensure that we meet net-zero carbon targets across our delivery areas. Together we can achieve a safer, cleaner, and greener West End.

Explore some of the current strategies and initiatives in place:

THE BUSINESS CLIMATE CHALLENGE: we partnered with the GLA to deliver the 2022 Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC), successfully signing up 12 businesses.
CLIMATE ACTION PLAN: WCC have set an emissions target for the city to reach net-zero by 2040. Find out more about their Climate Emergency Action Plan: Climate action plan Westminster City Council
SUSTAINABLE CITY CHARTER: First launched in 2022, Westminster’s first Sustainable City Charter encourages businesses of any shape or size to act to reduce the city’s carbon footprint. Find out more: Sustainable City Charter | Westminster City Council

To find out more about any of the above schemes, contact operations@holba.london.

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Cultural Heart of London

Serving as a guide and toolkit, our Cultural Strategy is designed to help stakeholders come together and take advantage of the creative economy.

Placeshaping strategy

Our Placeshaping Strategy provides a unified plan for the public realm and guidance for further improvements to streets and spaces across the Heart of London area.

West End 2027

We outline our upcoming projects online. Take a look through our dedicated website on the plans and project benefits to our wider community.