Right from the start of the planning journey, urbanest is able to offer local authorities and the Greater London Authority a completely voluntary set of design principles that outperform all other planning policies.

Our schemes at Battersea and Canary Wharf which are targeting BREEAM Outstanding and Passivhaus standard, grabbed local authority attention at early stage and built excitement around both schemes.

It was the first time that these local authorities had had planning applications for large Passivhaus buildings; and with embodied carbon being so central to planning decisions, we were able to prove that Passivhaus buildings could help lead  the journey to a net zero future.