Planning Success at Lombard Square

Berkeley Homes Capital’s Lombard Square development has been granted planning consent. Providing 328 residential units and residential facilities. The approval allows the next phase of urban regeneration of a former brownfield site in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

We have provided a range of services to support the planning application, each with its own challenges which were successfully addressed:

• Energy Strategy: The development has achieved a reduction in emissions of over 66% over the Part L 2021 Baseline, surpassing the GLA benchmark for CO₂ emissions reductions. This is delivered via an efficient building envelope, optimised communal heating systems and PV panels.
• Overheating strategy: the design addresses Part O and mitigates overheating despite a complex acoustic environment.
• Circular Economy: Berkeley Homes Capital’s commitment to adopting a design approach that focuses on material resource efficiency by considering building in layers, designing out waste, designing for longevity & disassembly & maximising reuse & recycling..
• Whole Life Cycle Carbon Assessment: Has achieved a total whole life cycle carbon emissions figure of 755 kg CO₂e/m, which is 445 kg CO₂e/m² lower than the GLA benchmark. This is largely due to focusing on a design that minimises material use