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Sustainability
1. Making the most efficient use of the site
2. Retail/community facilities located on Surrey Quays Road to encourage a mix of uses on the site
3. Pedestrianised internal streets and garden space provided, in order to encourage public use of the development
4. Large areas of external amenity space
5. Generous sized apartments to encourage a sustainable community
6. Sustainable building materials used for construction
7. Green/brown roofs to create biodiversity and help water attenuation
8. Central energy centre located within Site B2 development to provide heat, hot water and power for the Site A and B Sites
9. A majority of dual aspect apartments
10. Large areas of glazing to increase natural daylight within apartments
11. Large overhanging balconies to provide private amenity space and shade from summer sun
12. South facing apartments recessed into building to reduce solar overheating
13. Highly insulated buildings, to reduce amount of heating required
14. Buildings to have a high thermal mass to help summer time cooling
15. Extent of basements only underneath footprint of building, to allow natural drainage of the landscape and more extensive deep planting The Scheme
16. Mature trees to be planted in the courtyards to provide biodiversity and summer time shading
17. Car parking spaces minimised in order to encourage the use of sustainable transport
18. Large numbers of secure bicycle storage spaces provided, within the basement and at street level
19. Refuse and recycling centres located in the basements adjacent to circulation cores
20. Sustainable urban drainage system
