Towering Ambitions
Towering ambitions
Transforming high rise housing into sustainable homes
Towering ambitions: Transforming high rise housing into sustainable homes By Hannah Kyrke-Smith
Green Alliance Green Alliance is a charity and independent think tank focused on ambitious leadership for the environment. Green Alliance is a charity and independent think tank focused on ambitious leadership for the environment. We have a track record of over 30 years, working with the most influential leaders from the NGO, business, and political communities. Our work generates new thinking and dialogue, and has increased political action and support for environmental solutions in the UK. About Towering Ambitions This report is published as part of Green Alliance’s Towering Ambitions project which is looking at the challenges faced by residents of existing high rise housing in trying to live greener lifestyles. This report recommends how green living in tower blocks can be facilitated. We have also produced A better place to live: a toolkit for high rise green living, aimed at helping tower block residents to take action. Green Alliance 36 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 0RE 020 7233 7433 ga@green-alliance.org.uk www.green-alliance.org.uk blog: greenallianceblog.org.uk twitter: @GreenAllianceUK The Green Alliance Trust is a registered charity 1045395 and company limited by guarantee (England and Wales) 3037633, registered at the above address Published by Green Alliance, December 2012 ISBN 978-1-905869-80-0 Designed by Howdy and printed by Park Lane Press Acknowledgements Thanks to the residents of the Petticoat Tower on the Middlesex Street estate in the City of London; Warwick and Brindley estates on Harrow Road in the City of Westminster; and the Grantham Road estate in the London Borough of Lambeth, who helped us to develop the ideas in this report. Thanks also to Faye Scott and Edward Hobson at Green Alliance for their help with editing. We are grateful to the City Bridge Trust for
Transforming high rise housing into sustainable homes
Towering ambitions: Transforming high rise housing into sustainable homes By Hannah Kyrke-Smith
Green Alliance Green Alliance is a charity and independent think tank focused on ambitious leadership for the environment. Green Alliance is a charity and independent think tank focused on ambitious leadership for the environment. We have a track record of over 30 years, working with the most influential leaders from the NGO, business, and political communities. Our work generates new thinking and dialogue, and has increased political action and support for environmental solutions in the UK. About Towering Ambitions This report is published as part of Green Alliance’s Towering Ambitions project which is looking at the challenges faced by residents of existing high rise housing in trying to live greener lifestyles. This report recommends how green living in tower blocks can be facilitated. We have also produced A better place to live: a toolkit for high rise green living, aimed at helping tower block residents to take action. Green Alliance 36 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 0RE 020 7233 7433 ga@green-alliance.org.uk www.green-alliance.org.uk blog: greenallianceblog.org.uk twitter: @GreenAllianceUK The Green Alliance Trust is a registered charity 1045395 and company limited by guarantee (England and Wales) 3037633, registered at the above address Published by Green Alliance, December 2012 ISBN 978-1-905869-80-0 Designed by Howdy and printed by Park Lane Press Acknowledgements Thanks to the residents of the Petticoat Tower on the Middlesex Street estate in the City of London; Warwick and Brindley estates on Harrow Road in the City of Westminster; and the Grantham Road estate in the London Borough of Lambeth, who helped us to develop the ideas in this report. Thanks also to Faye Scott and Edward Hobson at Green Alliance for their help with editing. We are grateful to the City Bridge Trust for