This Strategy and Action Plan was co-created with businesses, the community and stakeholders.
OVERVIEW
Customers, staff and investors increasingly expect businesses to address the impact of their activities on the planet, on people and within the communities in which they operate. Moreover, Fitzrovia, as the London home to the architectural and built- environment sectors, provides a unique opportunity for the district to show its leadership and delivery in recreating cities as sustainable and liveable places.
The Fitzrovia Sustainability Strategy and Action Plan responds to the opportunity of these expectations.
Co-creation with the community
The development of the strategy and action plan was informed by baseline research, interviews with the public sector and businesses, a review of a sample of member businesses environmental and social governance strategies and face-to-face engagement with businesses, stakeholders and residents through a series of workshops.
Strategy Development Framework
Key suggestions from the participant engagement were captured in the context of the internationally-recognised SDGs, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals framework, and the sustainability themes adopted by The Fitzrovia Partnership:
1. Thriving Economy
2. Circular Economy
3. Buildings’ Emissions
4. Air Quality
5. Green Space
6. Public Realm and Sustainable Transport
7. Recycling and Waste
Each priority has key actions which are measurable and specific with a lead organisation. There are over 57 actions in total. Working in partnership with organisations and stakeholders will be required to deliver almost all the actions.
Delivering the Sustainability Strategy for Action Plan
Four Principles will be adopted by The Fitzrovia Partnership:
1. Become a sustainable organisation in all its operations.
This means transitioning to become a circular economy and net zero carbon organisation, adopting an ethical and environmental approach to procurement and upskilling the team on sustainability.
2. Support its’ members to become more sustainable organisations.
This means providing advice and guidance for all sectors, securing inward investment, advocating for laws, tax incentives and funding to support businesses to become more sustainable.my and net zero carbon organisation, adopting an ethical and environmental approach to procurement and upskilling the team on sustainability.
3. Facilitates collaborative working across stakeholders and the community.
This means facilitating partnership working and bringing together different skills, contributing to the development of members’ sustainability strategies, identifying and securing additional funding for sustainability projects.
4. Ensures robust and accountable governance, tracking and reporting of progress.
This means leadership from The Fitzrovia Partnership’s board, oversight of progress through a steering group (see below), SMART actions to enable measurement of progress, sharing best practice and lessons learned.
Sustainability Steering Group
Led by Professor Peter Bonfield, the sustainability steering group meets quarterly. It will oversee the progress of projects and actions and prioritise new actions.
Progress on projects will be updated quarterly.
An annual report on deliverables and progress will be published.
