Delivering Sustainable Communities
Our vision for 2020: "We will create high quality, sustainable places where people choose to live, work and spend their time. These will be places that directly encourage the well-being of residents and offer them a space and a base from which to lead safe and fulfilling lives. Our ability to transform sites into thriving communities will be considered the best in our industry. Through our ability both to engage and deliver, Berkeley will be the developer of choice for local authorities and existing communities." |
Berkeley's strategy for every site is to create a successful, sustainable place. We develop a specific solution, using bespoke design. We do not have standard products. Unlike most major housebuilders, we consistently use qualified architects to design each scheme, whether it consists of 10 or 4,000 homes.
Each place we create emerges through the management of a complex series of relationships and processes. Together these deliver the right mix of housing, transport, open space, retail and other facilities. We work very closely with the community to achieve this; their needs and ideas inform the design. Ultimately, they must take pride in the place and responsibility for its long-term success. We have a culture in our business of talking directly to residents and delivering what we promise.
Our strategy puts equal emphasis on each dimension of sustainability. This means building a place which offers people access to employment and a good quality of life, as well as the chance to live in a low carbon environment. Berkeley invests in the social fabric of each community just as we invest in the environmental performance of each home. Our ability to deliver this integrated approach to making a place sustainable is a core part of what makes us different.
This section of the website sets out our current performance alongside details of how we aim to deliver Vision2020 in relation to:
