•    Our approach at Granta Park, Cambridge is to place great emphasis on sustainability and responsibility for the economic, social and environmental impact of our actions.  

•    Our management strategy for delivering our Action Plan targets is monitored on a monthly basis and we report to investors quarterly regarding all aspects of responsible property management including the trending of utilities consumption, waste management and asset management initiatives.

•    All new property developments on the science & business park are benchmarked for their sustainability against a target list of features so that the new building helps us deliver on our Action Plan targets.

•    At all assets, our aim is to build up a community which has access to a great working environment and access to a wide range of amenities.

 

Granta Park - green and pleasant land.

Granta Park’s green interior offers a uniquely natural landscape that is quintessentially English. The amount of space surrounding the high-tech buildings is very generous providing a pleasant environment for the 2000 people working on the science park each day.

The science park grounds include the River Granta, chalk grassland meadows, woodlands, a lake and the focal point of a traditional cricket pitch. The meadow is rich with wild flowers and insects in the summer and autumn; essential to visiting birds such as Swallows and House Martins especially when they are breeding as their young are fed on the insects from this natural habitat.

The lake is an essential aspect of drainage management on site with a design which funnels the majority of run-off water through dykes to the lake where it is stored and can be used for watering. The lake is also home to amphibians, dragon flies, and breeding wildfowl.  Fresh water areas such as this are important as such habitats are in decline locally.

Over the last ten years thousands of new trees have been planted on the Granta Park science park including many lining the main avenues, in the parking groves and within the existing woodland area which runs along the park’s northern perimeter next to the River Granta.