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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.
Half Year Results 2024
Land Securities Group PLC announced its half year results for the six months ended 30 September 2024 on Friday 15 November 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
Reverse mentoring for an inclusive future
Earlier this year, nine executive leadership team members (ELT) were each paired with a more junior colleague for a six-month reverse mentoring opportunity.
Sustainability Insights Director
Open a broadsheet or scroll through Twitter in 2018 and climate change is everywhere.
Wildfires in California, heatwaves in Australia and drought in India. With climate change affecting trends in weather and causing increasing numbers of natural catastrophes, the world is waking up to what is fast becoming the defining issue of our time.
Property is no exception and our industry is under increasing pressure from the investment community to disclose climate risks.
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) encourages companies to offer more transparency on how they contribute to climate change, allowing investors to make better choices. But as well as the risk of investing in companies with excessive carbon emissions, there is another side to climate risk which investors are starting to consider.
As the effects of climate change start to show, the weather outside our window is changing and natural catastrophes are starting to become more common. This presents a variety of risks to business, from loss of trading to increased operating costs and even total loss of assets.
This question is of paramount importance in property, where our assets are exposed to weather and the changing climate. Ahead of our TCFD disclosure this year, we partnered with the Strategic Risk team from Willis Towers Watson to ask this question.
In the near term – up to 2030 – climate change will continue to take effect with rising temperatures making for a warmer climate across the globe. This is already contributing to warmer weather and is leading to more rainfall.
While this won’t affect the UK as much as other countries, property owners will need to be vigilant and make sure properties are well maintained and equipped to deal with heavy rain and storms.
One of the advantages of warmer weather is decreased heating costs. This might mean we’ll use less gas for heating, but it does mean that cooling costs will rise, putting pressure on older buildings with less capable cooling systems. Our modelling shows these two factors will cancel each other out, with no material effect on energy prices.
But there are many applications here in how we design our new buildings, reducing heating capacity and improving summer cooling capacity to cope with intense heatwaves.
In the long term, after 2030, our research shows we will start to see much greater impacts from climate change.
Flooding, coastal floods and windstorms will become more frequent and will become even more intense. Central London will start to feel more like Milan in summer, with much hotter temperatures, putting pressure on the capital’s infrastructure and buildings. Coastal properties without improved sea defences will experience more severe flooding, and assets sited on floodplains will experience more regular and higher losses.
Our modelling shows these losses could increase by over 30% every year, a significant number. This will start to have severe impacts on the property industry, as assets liable to damage or loss of trading from climate change become too risky for investors.
Looking at the effect climate change will have on insurance, we see very little change in the near term to 2030. The insurance market has proved to be slow to respond to climate change and, despite more frequent natural catastrophes, our analysis shows premiums aren’t set to rise. But in the long term, this will change and global weather events will push up premiums, leading companies to self-insure instead of paying out for expensive cover.
Our research into the risks from climate change will form part of our TCFD disclosure this year and we’ll be taking steps to make our business more resilient to climate change in everything from design to developments and insurance to investment.
Read about how we are developing resilience to climate change.
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