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Corporate responsibility documents and policies
Policies and documents underpin and provide guidance on our approach to corporate responsibility. Guidance is available for all of our business functions and for each stage of the property lifecycle including acquisition, design and planning, construction and asset management. View all our corporate responsibility documents on the downloads page.
Some of our key documents and policies include:
Corporate responsibility management
- Corporate Responsibility Handbook: provides a guide to the corporate responsibility implications of all aspects of our business activities, from acquisition and finance, to asset management and property sales.
- Corporate Responsibility Policy: sets out the framework for the way we manage our corporate responsibilities whilst maintaining commercial viability, long-term profitability and our reputation.
- Corporate Responsibility System Documentation Guide: helps employees and suppliers to identify which policies and documents they should refer to and when.
Sustainability throughout the property lifecycle
- Sustainability Guide for Acquisitions: ensures that we identify and manage potential environmental and social risks and opportunities at the earliest stage.
- Sustainability Brief for Developments: ensures that our projects are designed and constructed in a sustainable way.
- Sustainability Brief for Refurbishments: provides project teams with guidance to ensure that sustainability is incorporated in refurbishments, increasing energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.
Managing resources and emissions
- Travel Plans: reduce emissions by supporting sustainable transport, with site-specific Travel Plans for Blythe Valley Park, Meadowhall Shopping Centre, Regent’s Place and York House.
- Waste Management Plan: provides guidance on waste management to reduce our impact on climate change, save valuable resources, and reduce disposal and transport costs.
- Water Management Plan: provides guidance on water management during property acquisition, design, construction, management and refurbishment.
Managing and enhancing biodiversity
- Biodiversity Programme: promotes the consideration of biodiversity at each stage of the property lifecycle to protect and enhance habitats and species.
- Biodiversity Action Plans (urban and soft landscape): contain generic measures for properties with the type of hard landscape that is often associated with urban areas and for properties with some soft estate of planting and grass.
- Biodiversity Action Plans (site-specific): manage and enhance biodiversity at properties with varied habitat or species requirements, such as Blythe Valley Park, Meadowhall Shopping Centre, Regent’s Place and Teesside Shopping Park.