PROGRAMME 3: ENVIRONMENTAL & PLACE

Sustainability will be at the heart of everything we do and deliver for Fitzrovia during the next BID term. The United Nations reports that cities consume 78 per cent of the world’s energy and produce more than 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, how we do business in Fitzrovia can make a difference to the Carbon Net Zero and wider sustainability agenda.

Heightened awareness of sustainability is also affecting consumers’ purchasing choices and can be a factor in where businesses choose to locate, increasingly selecting property location based on the environmental performance of a building. Rising commodity prices and supply chain uncertainties are affecting business performance and viability. Consequently, there is also a strong business case for migrating to sustainable ways of operating across the whole of Fitzrovia.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Our new programme, Let’s Do Fitzero, will help businesses, employees and visitors make meaningful changes and adaptations. The Fitzrovia experience and offer remains as attractive as ever, but will be delivered in much more sustainable ways. The Let’s Do Fitzero programme will initially offer incentives and advice on sustainable travel, reducing commercial and polluting vehicles in the area, reducing single use plastics and reducing food waste. The programme will be expanded in each year of the next BID term to cover more sustainability strands.

THE FITZROVIA PARTNERSHIP WILL:

Recommend an expanded panel of preferred suppliers that can offer the widest range of recycling available, send zero waste to landfill and are migrating to zero emission vehicles.
Offer free waste and recycling audits and freight servicing and delivery plans for businesses.
Promote and introduce new services, such as Deliver London, which can reduce delivery vehicle trips in Fitzrovia by two thirds.
Lobby for investment and incentives to retrofit older buildings with energy saving measures.

Promote Green Leases, so building owners and tenants can work together to maximise the energy efficiency of their buildings.
Work with 10 partners and be the only BID participating in the DEFRA Clean Air Logistics for London programme, which will lever in £1m public investment to central London and tens of thousands specifically in Fitzrovia.
Work with partners to deliver a West End wide approach to improving local air quality and a common zero carbon pathway.

Sustainability is an increasingly important factor for a multi-campus organisation in Fitzrovia but we can’t do it on our own. To deliver sustainable solutions, we need to work collectively as an area. The Fitzrovia Partnership is making this happen.