Berkeley Group has published its latest Sustainability Report, showcasing how it is creating a lasting positive impact for society and the natural world across three focus areas: climate action, nature and communities.
Discover just a few highlights from across these areas over 2025/26 below.
- Appearing on CDP’s prestigious ‘A List’ for both Climate Change and Water Security, achieving a rare double ‘A’ score.
- Achieving SBTi validation for our new science based targets, having achieved our initial scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction target seven years early.
- Undertaking an embodied carbon assessment on all new buildings/developments.
- Connecting more than 2,000 homes to heat pump technology.
- Celebrating 10 years since we committed to delivering biodiversity net gain (BNG) on our developments – well ahead of the 2024 statutory requirement.
- Ecologists conducting a walk-over survey of King’s Road Park, which concluded that Phase 1 has delivered a BNG of 227%.
- Achieving a 95% landfill diversion rate for the total waste arising from our sites.
- Reducing construction waste intensity by 14% compared to last year, with improvements driven by our new Waste Action Plan.
- Delivering 90% of our homes on brownfield land.
- Embedding Community Plans, with 45 active plans across our live sites.
- Commissioning an independent review of The Green Quarter, showing the social and economic value felt by residents.
- 94% of our developments incorporating community facilities.
Action across these areas is driven by Berkeley’s responsible business strategy, Our Vision. Our Vision provides a framework for how Berkeley addresses Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues, as it seeks to lead the future of urban regeneration and homebuilding.