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Introducing Below The Lights
Below The Lights opened in summer 2024 in the heart of London - under the famous Piccadilly Lights.A unique Spotlight space for immersive events, Below The Lights is a place where brands can create memorable experiences and incredible media campaigns.
About
We build and invest in buildings, spaces and partnerships to create sustainable places, connect communities and realise potential.
Impact report
Our 2022 impact report deep dives into the ways our places and activities are making a difference across the UK. From our economic contributions to the social and sustainable value we deliver, we recognise that the consequences of the actions we take as an organisation are both far-reaching and long-lasting.
The potential of sustainable retail
Sustainable retail has the potential to boost local UK economies by nearly £100m and grow brand revenues by up to 13%.
Investors
Discover the strategy that drives our success, as we create sustainable value for our three types of investor: institutional, private and debt.
Annual results 2024
Land Securities Group PLC announced its annual results for the twelve months ended 31 March 2024 on Friday 17th May 2024.
Creating valuable places
We enter the coming year with a renewed sense of clarity and purpose.
Sustainability
We're working to enhance the health of our environment and improve quality of life for our people, customers and communities - now, and for future generations.
Landsec Futures
Landsec Futures is a £20m fund that aims to deliver around £200m of social value by 2030, supporting at least 30,000 people from underrepresented socio-economic backgrounds towards long-term employment. It will also provide the chance to increase the diversity of talent across the industry and in our business.
We are working to Let Nature In
We’re letting nature into the design, development, and management of our spaces. We’re improving biodiversity; promoting health, wellbeing and community engagement by creating green spaces; and creating nature-based solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Careers
Life at Landsec
We're shining a spotlight on some of the inspirational people that work for us as part of our Life at Landsec series.
Media & Insights
Reimagining the city for gender inclusivity
Hear more from Ellie Cosgrave about how we need to rethink our public spaces and challenge our existing assumptions about how to deliver cities which are successfully inclusive.
The built environment consists of more than just bricks and mortar. The spaces and places that form the world around us have a profound impact on the communities and individuals who interact with them. Buildings come to represent far more than the sum of their parts when we take into account the effect their use – or lack of use – has on community cohesion, the generation of social value, employment, social mobility and wellbeing.
This is an acute problem for many communities today; JLL research estimates that there is a 25% oversupply of retail space in the UK. This oversupply means that there is a growing amount of space that is no longer required by retailers and is increasingly becoming empty for long periods of time. The Guardian recently reported that about 16 stores closed their doors every day in the first half of 2019 while only nine opened, resulting in a net decline of 1,234 chain stores on Britain’s top 500 high streets.
Much has been written about the future of the retail sector – from the taxation of online transactions to the adoption of technology in stores – but there has been less discussion to date around the real estate which now lies empty as the shifts in the sector become more tangible.
This report aims to highlight the benefits of repurposing this space, using best-in-class examples from around the world to showcase the art of the possible. It seeks to demonstrate that if all stakeholders – from developers, to planners, to communities – approach the repurposing of space with a truly aspirational mindset, then places which are currently redundant can be transformed to empower communities, turbo-charge local economies and generate meaningful social value.
This vision for the future of retail space can be applied to the UK. The Government has developed policies to drive the growth of town centres and has pledged to consult on planning reform to make it easier to create more homes, jobs and choice in town centres. The liberalisation of planning policy to enable greater flexibility in the change of use from retail to other purposes provides planners with the opportunity to reimagine their local communities in ways that have previously been challenging.
Our aim is to inspire planning officers and local decision makers to collaborate with developers to create dynamic new places, inspired by international models, to unlock social and economic capital. We hope that this report can also serve as a launchpad for educating a range of policymakers in how better to create change within the scope of existing legislation. The current oversupply of space provides an opportunity to create a future that places connected communities at the heart of the built environment for decades to come.
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