Workplace
We create workplaces designed for life - not just the 9 to 5. From a net zero office space in Southwark to an office at the heart of Manchester’s MediaCity, find the perfect fit for 10-150+ desks.
The Forge, Bankside
Inspired by its industrial past and built for the future, it’s our first net zero carbon workplace.
n2, Victoria
Part of the Nova campus, n2 is an oasis of calm in vibrant Victoria.
Lucent, Piccadilly
Bright and airy offices allow people to take in the inspiring cityscape, especially on the 20 outdoor terraces.
Dashwood, City of London
Dashwood is a boutique tower at an unrivalled City location, providing a unique choice of workspaces to meet customer needs today, and in the future.
140 Aldersgate, City of London
Located in the heart of a vibrant city location, 140 Aldersgate connects business and culture between Farringdon and Barbican.
Retail & Hospitality
We own and operate some of the UK's most renowned retail and hospitality destinations that connect brands with people.
Bluewater, Kent
Bluewater features a curated brand mix of retail and leisure experiences.
Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
With its unique waterfront location and maritime history, Gunwharf Quays offers warm hospitality alongside its premium retail and leisure experiences.
St David's, Cardiff
St David’s occupies one third of Cardiff’s city centre, and half of the city’s retail space, establishing it as the beating heart of the community.
Trinity, Leeds
The open-air experience under the iconic domed roof of Trinity Leeds spans over 1 million sq ft of prime retail and hospitality space.
Westgate, Oxford
Modernity meets history in the characterful Westgate Oxford, a stone’s throw away from the historic Oxford Castle Quarter.
Mixed-use regeneration
Working closely with communities and local authorities around the UK, we regenerate urban spaces into thriving places to live, work and play.
Mayfield, Manchester
Mayfield is a 24-acre brownfield site packed with heritage and the River Medlock flowing through its core.
The O2 Centre, Camden
The O2 Centre Masterplan will deliver a new mixed-use urban neighbourhood spanning 14-acres of currently underutilised space in Zone 2 London.
The Galleries, Glasgow
The Galleries, our vision for the redevelopment of Buchanan Galleries, is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance the city centre as a magnetic place for homegrown talent and opportunity.
Lewisham Shopping Centre, Lewisham
We’re developing plans to shape a new centre for Lewisham. The plans will redefine the town centre – offering everyone better choices and new experiences that are firmly rooted in Lewisham's people and culture.
Hartree, Cambridge
Landsec and TOWN, working with Cambridge City Council and Anglian Water, are developing a vision for a new urban quarter in Cambridge.
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.
2023 half year results
Land Securities Group PLC announced its half year results for the six months ended 30 September 2023 on Tuesday 14th November 2023.
Capital Markets Day - September 2023
We're hosting a Capital Markets Event for analysts and investors at our London office developments, Lucent at Piccadilly Circus and n2 in Victoria, which completed earlier this summer.
Sustainable urban places
Building on our competitive advantages. First to opportunities, in shape to act.
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.
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.
Group Head of Health, Safety and Security, Landsec
Did you know that construction workers are 100 times more likely to suffer from an occupational disease than be involved in a workplace accident?
It’s a shocking statistic, but one that clearly shows the “safety” element of Health and Safety has all too often been the over-riding focus of companies’ efforts and attention.
However, it’s easy to understand why. On a construction site you can immediately identify risks and implement necessary changes, like putting up a guard rail. Whereas the effects of breathing in dust may take years to show - and the causes are more difficult to identify.
Eighteen months ago, I met Dr Lesley Rushton from Imperial College London. The figures she presented to me illustrating how many people suffered from occupational ill health and mental health across our industry deeply alarmed me.
It was this meeting with Dr Rushton that set me on a quest to use Landsec’s influence to put “health” on the same footing as “safety”.
In 2001, then-Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott convened a meeting of the construction industry, focused on safety, with a view to addressing high accident and fatality rates.
I thought we needed a convention like John Prescott’s for health so, in January 2016, I brought together over 150 industry leaders and influencers at the first Health in Construction summit. There, CEOs pledged to eradicate the thousands of cases each year of ill health and disease caused by health hazards at work, as well as getting to grips with the growing problem of poor mental health.
After this summit, we formed the Health in Construction Leadership Group (HCLG), which I chair alongside my work at Landsec. This group wants to turn construction into the leading industry for occupational health and disease prevention by 2025. Our mission is to get rid of the diseases caused by exposure to health hazards.
That’s going to take a cultural shift, which is why we want to talk about health the way we talk about safety. As a start, we’re sharing information and best practice around musculoskeletal and respiratory health – take a look at the videos and case studies on the HCLG website.
Improving physical health conditions in construction is one facet of our work, but there’s also much more to do around mental health, which is why Mates in Mind was born.
Too many construction workers kill themselves in the UK because of the unique strains of the job – many live away from their family and work long hours – which can bring on stress and lead to depression and anxiety. Combined with the fact that the leading cause of death among men aged 15 to 49 is suicide, and that the construction workforce is heavily male, it’s clear that this is a population group at risk.
Founded by the HCLG, British Safety Council and charities Mind, Samaritans and Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England, Mates in Mind is a programme that aims to improve the mental health of the construction industry workforce.
It is currently being trialled by five companies: Tideway, Heathrow, Careys, Willmott Dixon and Balfour Beatty. As part of the programme, we’re doing the following:
From these trials, we’ve found that bringing in mental health professionals to have these conversations isn’t necessarily the best way forward. We had a better response when we brought in comedian John Ryan, who specialises in using comedy to talk about mental health. He’s got a great ability to connect with people and get them talking, which was a real breakthrough in the macho demographics of construction where talking about feelings is often suppressed.
All this is bold thinking but we need to follow it up with action, which is why we are using our influence as the UK’s largest property developer to specify in tender documents for future developments that suppliers must support the Mates in Mind programme. We’re confident our industry colleagues will do the same. Our target is for 100,000 construction workers to take the 45-minute Mates in Mind session in the next year.
The recent involvement from the Royal Family on mental health has helped to raise this issue to a new level and we hope that this programme can benefit from the exposure. Mental health can affect us all, no matter who we are or where we work.
We will all go through tough times in our lives, but men especially feel the need to pretend that everything is ok." Prince Harry The Daily Telegraph
We will all go through tough times in our lives, but men especially feel the need to pretend that everything is ok."
Prince Harry
The Daily Telegraph
It’s not just about our contractors though – we take mental health seriously in our own offices, too. During this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week we held an event to inform our people about our mental health provision where we also had speakers from within our business sharing their own experiences of mental health.
Talking about mental health is a start, but it’s clearly not enough for an organisation of our size. We’re now setting up a network of trained Mental Health First Aiders within Landsec and I’d like that network to increase to one in ten of our people. That may sound like a lot, but it’s a crucial step in tackling the issue. It’s easy to spot someone coming into the office on crutches and arrange some help, but it takes more awareness to pick up on the often-subtle signs of declining mental health.
We’re encouraging our people to focus on themselves, too, by running stress-management and mindfulness courses for staff to help them manage day-to-day life.
In setting up and fitting out our own new office in Victoria, health and wellbeing was central to our design philosophy. We have a contemplation room for staff to get away from workplace bustle, and a health and wellbeing library. There’s free, nutritious food available to snack on and we’ve even set up the lighting to reflect the body’s natural reactions to daylight.
In the past, we have whispered about health and shouted about safety. Now, we are talking about health and shouting about safety. In the future, we want to be shouting about health and shouting about safety.
We are privileged at Landsec in that our position as the largest UK property company means people sit up and take note when we do something. It’s vital that we don’t do this work alone. The scale and breadth of our supply chain means we can encourage large parts of our industry to put the same emphasis on health as we do.
Thanks to the groups we’re already leading, the work we’re already doing and the effect we’re already having on people, it feels like we’re now making progress – first and foremost, because we’re talking about it.
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