Welcome to Our Nature-Led Neighbourhoods at The Green Quarter in Southall

At The Green Quarter in Southall we are putting nature at the heart of our development.

“We want to play a leading role in nature’s recovery and create beautiful, wild, open spaces in the heart of cities and towns, which become thriving communities people call home,” says Katie Sampford, Senior Sustainability Manager at The Green Quarter.

That’s why Berkeley was the first developer to commit to achieving Biodiversity Net Gain back in 2017. “Our aim is always to maximise the natural value of every development, leaving a remarkable improvement on the landscape than how we found it, ensuring that we create thriving environments where nature can flourish,” explains Katie. 

Designing for Biodiversity

Preserving and enhancing biodiversity happens at the earliest design stage. “We collaborate with landscape architects, ecologists and organisations like the London Wildlife Trust to ensure we weave nature into our developments and connect it to the surrounding areas,” says Katie.

“To date we have over 55 schemes which have successfully achieved biodiversity net gain, creating more than 585 acres of new or measurably improved natural habitat.” 

One of these is The Green Quarter in Southall, West London, where 50% of the development will be open space, including our 4.5 acre landscape central gardens and a mosaic of habitats from grassland and woodland to 9 acres of wetlands.

Watch our video filmed at The Green Quarter in Southall to see how we are creating nature rich neighbourhoods.

Biodiversity at The Green Quarter

Strategic planting of flower-rich grasslands, 2,500 trees, reed beds, wetlands and wildflower supports a nature rich masterplan, which is key to achieving 93.6% biodiversity net gain on site. “We’ve seen many species of birds returning to the area along with bees, butterflies and dragonflies,” says Katie. “Central Gardens includes planting of purple, blue and yellow flowers, which are the main colours that bees can see.”

Reducing emissions by Design

At Parkside Yards, The Green Quarter’s community hub, there is a 600 air-potted tree nursery supplying trees for the site. This is reducing transportation emissions associated with getting mature trees on site as well as improving local air quality. 

Jags Sanghera, Head of Community Engagement at The Green Quarter says: “We've gone from 15,000 cars being parked on a former brownfield site to a nature-rich revolution, providing a variety of landscapes in a town centre location. It's one of the initiatives to reduce our carbon footprint by growing UK native species on site, which reduce the impact of transporting them from across Europe.”

Jags adds: “You shouldn’t have to travel to nature, it should be home, and that’s what we’re making happen here at The Green Quarter.”

Visit the Green Quarter development

Visit the Green Quarter development page to see more about the first phase of this development, Quarter Yards, with homes available to reserve now, and to find out more about our plans for this development.

Find out more about Berkeley's vision for nature.