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      What we do/ Sustainability/ Sustainable Buildings and Places/ MasterPlanning for Sustainable Buildings and Places

      Masterplanning

      With integrity and expertise, we guide our clients towards investing in property long-term, helping to achieve a sustainable future.

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      Court Lodge Farm, for Trinity Hall, Cambridge
      Court Lodge Farm

      Identifying, securing and managing a rare farming asset with the right balance of short, medium and long-term opportunities.

      The development industry has a huge role to play in the essential work of tackling climate change and creating sustainable communities. Through Masterplanning and urban design, you can make well-informed decisions now to contribute to hitting net zero carbon by 2050 and alleviating economic uncertainty.

      With a context-led approach, we ensure any proposed Master-plan is site-specific and responds to a site’s constraints and opportunities. This ensures we deliver an exemplary result for our clients’ time and time again.

      Behind each Master-plan drawing are several thematic layers; the open spaces, amenities, teaching and research needs, energy requirements, carbon neutrality and renewable energy opportunities, noise constraints, cost appraisals and quality of life for future residents.

      All these facets need careful consideration to form a Master-plan and design that delivers on your priorities and contributes to green infrastructure.

      By providing master planning services and obtaining an allocation in a local plan, or by assisting in preparing a planning application, we can unlock your site for sustainable development.

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      Retrofitting

      We can help you reutilise the embedded carbon in your assets so you can improve the emissions from your existing estate and protect your historic properties.

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      Master planning

      The development industry has a huge role to play in the essential work of climate change and creating sustainable communities. Through master planning and urban design, you can make well-informed decisions now to contribute to hitting net zero carbon by 2050.

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      Net Zero Portfolio Strategy

      We need to think big and think combined to bring together all elements of sustainability to reach our targets. There is no single solution.

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      Specification of materials

      With sustainability policies moving so fast selecting the right goods, materials and services for your project can feel like trying to hit a moving target.

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      Carbon lifecycle analysis

      Carbon is emitted by a building when it's built, used, demolished and disposed of but materials have their own carbon life too. We’ll help you understand the past, present and future of your assets.

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      Biodiversity Net Gain

      Having a credible biodiversity plan for your scheme is becoming integral to securing planning permission and maximising end values. 

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      Nutrient Neutrality

      The local planning authorities across Norfolk have been impacted by guidance issued by Natural England in relation to the impact of increased nutrient loads on protected habitat sites.

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      Environmental Impact Assessments

      Adding value to minimise the environmental impact of your development or infrastructure projects from the outset and ensuring compliance with the legislative requirements of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

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      Social Value

      Delivering social value through developments is now required by updated compliance and policy, and by society more generally. This means a more sustainable and clearly articulated development resulting in a more valuable and marketable product and is something we are passionate about at Bidwells.

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      Stranded Assets Assessments Strategy

      With the sustainability agenda moving at pace, ensuring your property assets don’t get left high and dry is becoming an integral part of portfolio assessments.

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      Creating a strategy to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 across a portfolio of historic college buildings.
      Jesus College Master Plan

      Creating a strategy to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 across a portfolio of historic college buildings.

      Creating a strategy to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 across a portfolio of historic college buildings.
      Identifying, securing and managing a rare farming asset with the right balance of short, medium and long-term opportunities
      Court Lodge Farm

      Identifying, securing and managing a rare farming asset with the right balance of short, medium and long-term opportunities

      Identifying, securing and managing a rare farming asset with the right balance of short, medium and long-term opportunities
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