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Our sustainability vision is to create retail destinations that deliver net positive impacts economically, socially and environmentally.
We will do this by creating retail destinations that deliver net positive impacts economically, soci...
Building Positive Places: Our Vision and Approach
Our sustainability vision is to create retail destinations that deliver net positive impacts economi...
Our Positive Places Commitments
Positive Places incorporates and represents all sustainability activity at Hammerson including our n...
Data & Performance
Hammerson has reported extensively on its sustainability performance since 2008. The data provided...
News and Insight
A showcase of some of our delivered and planned activity around Positive Places, giving you a chance...
Policies
Our policies represent some of our core building blocks to ensure best practice in sustainability is...
Our Commitment to Challenge and Innovate
We will challenge the status quo and trial new approaches and solutions to support the transition to...
Our Commitment to Protect and Enhance
We will protect and enhance our natural environment by minimising resource consumption and deliverin...
Our Commitment to Serve and Invest
We will deliver social value to the communities we serve, measured in Net Positive jobs, skills, civ...
Our Commitment to Partner and Collaborate
We will take a stakeholder led approach to create collaborative projects that deliver Net Positive o...
Our Commitment to Upskill and Inspire
We will invest in our people, as well as recognising and rewarding those delivering change that deli...
Hammerson’s 2017 Sustainability Report
2017 was a busy but exciting year for Hammerson as a whole and particularly for the Sustainability T...
Our Approach to Managing Sustainability Risks
Risks flowing from sustainability are managed in the same way as other business risks. Our company...
Sustainability Report 2015
We are pleased to present Hammerson's Sustainability Report for 2015. This report sets out our perfo...
Industry Memberships
As one of the UK’s largest retail landlors, Hammerson has a responsibility to influence and share be...
2016 Corporate Responsibility Report
2016 saw two major shopping centre developments delivered by the UK developments team are both on tr...
Verification and Disclosures
All our sustainability reporting is GRI and EPRA compliant. Our basis of reporting, asset lists, tar...
Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme
Our focus on energy efficiency has enabled us to reduce our CRC costs and mitigate our exposure to f...
Development Approach
Hammerson was one of the first major property developers to address sustainability considerations se...
Hammerson Supplier Survey
We aim to be Net Positive for carbon, water, resource use and social impacts by 2030.
Introducing Net Positive
We have set ourselves a new bold objective for Positive Places - to become Net Positive by 2030. Fi...
Climate Change
Hammerson recognises that the built environment is a major consumer of natural resources and one of...
Our Socio-economic Footprint
Our True Value of Retail Report shares our socio-economic footprint with stakeholders. It was launc...
Our Net Positive Mini Film Series
In early 2017 we launched an ambitious new objective to become Net Positive for Carbon, Resource Use...
Our Environmental Footprint
Hammerson has set out an ambition to become Net Positive in carbon emissions, water, resource use an...
Bristol Socio-economic Footprint
Here we look at the footprint for Bristol and explore some of the projects in place that are delive...
Leeds Socio-economic Footprint
Ireland Socio-economic Footprint
Moving to Naturally Ventilated Centres
Energy used to heat and cool our Shopping Centres is a major contributor to our carbon emissions. M...
Operational Approach
Proactively managing our environmental impacts across our Shopping Centre and Retail Parks portfolio...
Sustainability Training
Ensuring our staff have the right skills and support is key to enabling them to deliver Positive Pla...
Charity Partnerships
Hammerson is committed to creating Positive Places and investment through relationships with chariti...
Birmingham Socio-economic Footprint
Positive Growth Awards
Hammerson is committed to creating retail destinations that deliver positive impacts economically, s...
Hammerson’s 2018 Sustainability Report
2018 has been another busy year for Hammerson and our focus on excellence has continued to deliver...
The Big Positive Weekend : Engaging the Conscious Consumer
Following a successful summer of weekend events in 2014, The Big Positive Weekend is coming back for...
Donating Retail Space
Our in-kind scheme, which utilises the space we have in our retail assets to support third sector o...
The True Value of Shopping Centres
In 2013 Hammerson commissioned research to quantify the long-term socio-economic impacts of its shop...
Shaping Positive Places
Materiality at Hammerson and shaping the future of Positive Places
Hammerson Futures
As a company, Hammerson aims to bring together the digital and physical to enable exceptional retail...
How we will achieve our Net Positive targets
Our Net Positive targets focus on our four key material impacts or Carbon, water, resource use and s...
Delivering Retail Destinations with Purpose
Positive collaboration between businesses is critical to accelerating the response to the climate cr...
Hammerson Culture and Values
Creating value through our people is one of the core components of our business model and is fundame...
Creating Inclusive Centres
We’re committed to understanding and responding to locally specific community needs and adapting to...
Our Corporate Responsibility Data and Performance 2014
We are delighted to have achieved our key 5-year carbon reduction target a year early, having reduce...
Our Material Sustainability Issues
Every four years we carry out a sustainability materiality review. This ensures our sustainability...
2019 - 2020 Targets
Our sustainability targets set a challenging course for the the next year and support our objective...
Archive: Hammerson Sustainability Reports, Data and Disclosures
Hammerson have provided comprehensive CR and Sustainability reporting since 2008, generating a consi...
Collaboration with Costa wins BCSC Gold Award 2015
Hammerson and Costa have won Gold in sustainability category of the BCSC Gold Awards. The collabora...
MasterChef winner Shelina Permalloo hosts cooking demonstration at WestQuay shopping centre
WestQuay Watermark launched its delicious food on a budget recipe booklet with a cooking demonstrati...
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UrbanPlan workshops in Barnet and Croydon
Hammerson is one of the founders of Urban Plan, an initiative being delivered by The Urban Land Inst...
Barnet ‘Job Shop’ celebrates first anniversary
The Brent Cross Retail Job Shop has been celebrating a successful first year, having found new jobs...
Retail Revelations with Enabling Enterprise
As part of our initiative to encourage skills and enterprise, we've teamed up with Enabling Enterpr...
Croydon Partnership's Dragons' Den competition
Last week, the Croydon Partnership held a Dragons’ Den-style competition at the Whitgift Centre to h...
Le recyclage des déchets aux Terrasses du Port
National Takeover Day at Highcross Leicester
November 20th saw 11 members of Highcross staff including senior management have their jobs taken ov...
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Talent Match Leicestershire and The Prince's Trust
Between November 2015 and January 2016 saw WotSPACE support Talent Match Leicestershire (TM) partner...
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Opération aux Terrasses du Port : Rien ne se perd
Annual Young Enterprise Trade Fair at Centrale
Young Entrepreneurs from across Croydon showcased their business credentials on Saturday 13th Februa...
Leadership in Sustainability
As part of our commitment to upskill and inspire our people in sustainability, our senior management...
The rise and rise of Socially Responsible Investment
JP Morgan recently held a very interesting Socially Responsible Investment conference. The fact that...
Better Buildings Partnership launches case study on our collaborative project with B&Q
At Cyfarthfa Retail Park in Merthyr Tydfil, Hammerson and B&Q partnered to create an Eco Learning St...
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Community day 2016
On the 10th June 2016, Hammerson had it’s annual Community Day, which coincided with National Volun...
Hammerson Charity Committee Supports Young Achievers Publication in Barnet
With the support of Hammerson charity committee funding, Nutmeg, a London Borough of Barnet charity...
Manor Walks celebrates Community Day
Manor Walks, our Retail Park in Cramlington spent their Community Day with the aim to bring the loca...
Teenage Market Comes to Leeds
Tapping into the entrepreneurial spirit of young people in Leeds
Tapping into the entrepreneurial spirit of young people in Leeds
Hammerson partnered with Leeds Kirkgate Market to bring the first Teenage Market to Leeds ton Saturd...
Positive Growth Awards
Launched in 2013, Positive Growth Awards was developed from the Retailer Engagement Toolkit develope...
Lyons Works Building becomes a work of art
New artwork on the façade of the Lyons Works building on Templar Lane is now complete following a p...
B&Q Eco Learning Store
We formulated a new specification with B&Q to meet their Net Positive sustainability objectives for...
50,000 actions recorded by Hammerson employees
Hammerson joined up with The Butterfly Bank in 2015 to open our own bespoke branch of the innovative...
Culture And Values CEO Work Shadowing
Work shadowing was identified as a something that would benefit cross company collaboration as part...
Hammerson and Sir Robert McAlpine work with Trucost to join up the environmental and financial business case for energy efficient technologies
Hammerson and leading construction company Sir Robert McAlpine are using natural capital accounting...
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Hammerson Community Day 2013
Hammerson Community Day is a great example of Positive Places and Culture and Values in action.
53 Apprenticeships delivered in 3 years
With the launch of our new Community Engagement Report, we are celebrating each of the headline achi...
49 Digital High Street Workshops
With the launch of our new Community Engagement Report, we are celebrating each of the headline achi...
66 Work Experience Opportunities
With the launch of our new Community Engagement Report, we are celebrating each of the headline achi...
8 UK Shopping Centre Jobs Fairs
With the launch of our new Community Engagement Report, we are celebrating each of the headline achi...
Zero Waste To Landfill, Glasgow
“By using a combination of recycling and green energy solutions we have achieved 100% diversion from...
4885 Jobs Created
With the launch of our new Community Engagement Report, we are celebrating each of the headline achi...
WOT Space with somewhereto_ at Highcross
Opened in February 2014, Wot Space at Highcross Leicester is the UK’s very first brokerage agency t...
14071 Further Job Opportunities Generated by Supporting Community Organisation
With the launch of our new Community Engagement Report, we are celebrating each of the headline achi...
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80 Tours and Presentations
With the launch of our new Community Engagement Report, we are celebrating each of the headline achi...
Providing local employment opportunities in Marseille
Hammerson’s 61,000 m2 development of Les Terrasses du Port shopping centre in Marseille created arou...
7687 Students Engaged
With the launch of our new Community Engagement Report, we are celebrating each of the headline achi...
Aspire II Employability Programme
99 Schools, Universities and Colleges Engaged
With the launch of our new Community Engagement Report, we are celebrating each of the headline achi...
Community Engagement Review 2013 -2016
We are pleased to share our Community Engagement Review. The review looks back over community engag...
Croydon Partnership continues support for local businesses
Croydon Partnership is keen to support the existing work of local businesses such as Mum's The Chef...
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Saints Foundation and Hammerson announce Active Families initiative
In partnership with the Saints Foundation, we have today announced the launch of an initiative to pr...
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Charity committee support for young musicians at the Birmingham Conservatoire
Hammerson’s funding provided 34 talented young musicians from Northamptonshire Music and Performing...
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Doors open for East Street Arts at 130 Vicar Lane, Leeds
On Friday 9th September, a small stakeholder event was held at 130 Vicar Lane in Leeds to celebrate...
Croydon Partnership Helps Young People Get Ready for Work
The Croydon Partnership, the joint venture between Westfield and Hammerson is pleased to have suppor...
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Hammerson and Sir Robert McAlpine publish Natural Capital Report
Hammerson and Sir Robert McAlpine collaborate on new report on Natural Capital
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Retail Matters: Campaign Launch at Hammerson
Retail Matters Week is a campaign to celebrate and showcase the great talents of those who work in r...
Pop Up Business School in Croydon
Following a successful pilot with the Oracle team, which was featured on the BBC, the Pop Up Busines...
Launch of First Steps Croydon
A Croydon Partnership funded programme to support young people in Croydon with quality work experien...
Brandon Trust takes over Quakers Friars!
Cabot Circus hosts craft market for Brandon Trust.
Hammerson and Sir Robert McAlpine Natural Capital Workshop
Hammerson and Sir Robert McAlpine Natural Capital Workshop
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Seeing is Believing – Private Sector Investment making a real difference
Guest blog by Dan Stickland, Economic Development and Skills, Southampton City Council
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Croydon’s First Teenage Market and a return to Victoria Leeds
After the success of the first Teenage Market in Leeds Kirkgate Market in July, Hammerson partnered...
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Pop Up Business School comes to WestQuay
One of the focus areas of the Watermark community plan is to support local enterprise. In partnershi...
Case study: The Oracle hosts local students for recycling project
The Oracle provided Reading College Creative Media students with several case studies interviews abo...
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Victoria Leeds Business Boost Competition
Earlier this year, in partnership with Leeds Beckett University, we launched our Victoria Leeds Busi...
Saints FC visit Westquay
On the 14th of December, young members from the Saints Foundation visited Westquay shopping centre t...
Partnership with GCU’s British School of Fashion and retailRIGHT to support fashion’s next generation of entrepreneurs
In an innovative new partnership, GCU’s British School of Fashion, retailRIGHT and Hammerson have te...
Time Truck and CITiZAN go Christmas Shopping!
Guest blog by CiTIZAN about their experience in Westquay, Southampton
Hammerson funds City College apprentices to renovate medieval cargo ship in Southampton
A new restoration project has just been announced which will see Southampton’s replica medieval carg...
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Budding entrepreneurs visit Hammerson offices
Enabling Enterprise visited our offices once again to exhibit the future entrepreneurs of Retail!
Launching our new Net Positive Objective
I am delighted to be able to announce Hammerson’s Net Positive initiative this week. We are setting...
We are Dementia Friends
12 Oracle employees attended a Dementia Friends training session on the 28th February 2017 ahead of...
Life Less Plastic
Hammerson employees from 10 retail destinations across the UK, including the Bullring in Birmingham,...
Community Day 2017
Thursday 8th June saw Hammerson complete its tenth successful Community Day.
Croydon Partnership supports H.E.A.R. The Runway
In 2016, Tanya Gabrielle a resident of Croydon who is deaf, was successful in applying for a £2,000...
Pop Up Business School at The Oracle
On the 21st and 22nd of April The Oracle provided 7 Pop Up Business School participants with trading...
Football legend Eddie Gray raises dementia awareness at Victoria Leeds
Leeds legend Gray praises Victoria's partnership with Leeds United Foundation
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The Big Positive Weekend 2014
The Big Positive Weekend visited nine Hammerson shopping centres between June and August 2014. It...
Sustainable Restaurant Association
Together with the SRA, Hammerson developed the first ever sustainability accreditation for food dest...
Hammerson releases new video to celebrate World Green Building Week
To mark World Green Building Week 2017, Hammerson has released a short video celebrating the company...
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Environmental Lease Clauses
The inclusion of environmental clauses in leases is increasingly common across the industry and is s...
Daring Developers take on Hammerson
Hammerson proudly hosted Enabling Enterprise, and Year 5 students from Preston Park Primary School,...
Two World Firsts at Elliott's Field retail Park, Rugby
Elliott’s Field Phase II, Rugby, has achieved two sustainability world firsts, having been awarded a...
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Supplier Survey Report 2016
2016 was the fourth year for our Annual Supplier Survey. As a property development and asset manage...
Hammerson Community Day 2014
Our 6th Community Day was as well supported as ever and this time, the sun shone!
Who are we supporting with Community Day 2018?
Taking a leadership role in Net Positive is extremely exciting and as we embark on this journey, one...
Making a positive difference
Establishing meaningful relationships, creating networks and collaborating with social enterprises,...
Bug Hotel Telford Forge
A new Bug Hotel has been created at our Telford Forge Retail Park. Created from old pallets and rec...
HAMMERSON GIVES BACK FOR COMMUNITY DAY 2018
282 Hammerson employees on the 7 June 2018 across UK and Ireland took time out to give… #Positive...
The Bullring gets a green makeover
Announcing our UK & Ireland Employee Charity Partner 2018-20
A new opportunity to support
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Hot shot youngsters given opportunity to win a place on the Crystal Palace FC Foundation Summer Football Academy
Our Croydon Team get involved in the local festivities..
New tenants create a buzz at The Oracle
A trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park for locals
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Silverburn helps those who have fallen by The Wayside
Hammerson goes green for World Green Building Week
Find out how Hammerson promoted and joined in the global, annual event that motivates and empowers t...
Managing recycling at our Dundrum shopping centre in Dublin
Gerry Cahalin, Logistics Manager at Dundrum Town Centre discusses the destination's recycling policy...
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Highcross get greener glass for the white stuff!
Kick-starting the New Year, Highcross management team have made the switch from plastic to glass mil...
Hammerson retains GRESB Green Star
Hammerson retains GRESB Green Star and continues to show improving performance
Hammerson Visit Haiti
Cabot Circus 2018 Community Summary
A summary of Cabot Circus' community engagement in 2018.
The Bees are back in town!
Westquay 2018 Community Summary
A summary of Westquay's community engagement in 2018.
Terriers Launch Event
The Oracle 2018 Community Summary
A summary of The Oracle's community engagement in 2018.
Brent Cross 2018 Community Summary
A summary of Brent Cross's community engagement in 2018.
Silverburn 2018 Community Summary
A summary of Silverburn's community engagement in 2018.
Developing Retail Skills
As part of our commitment to make our centres a positive place for the communities they serve, we've...
Recent Projects and Progress
Since the publication of the 2018 Sustainability Report, the Sustainability team has been busy deliv...
Into the Dragon's Den at Silverburn, Glasgow
Eight teams of pupils from Glasgow schools near Silverburn Shopping Centre were invited by the centr...
Who are we supporting on Community Day 2019?
Community Day is back and bigger than ever!
Lives not Knives, Centrale, Croydon
As a property and investment company, we are aware of how important it is to establish good relation...
Enabling Enterprise visit King's Place
On the 9th May, Hammerson's head office hosted Enabling Enterprise, and pupils from Lavender Primary...
The role of sustainability in retail
On 4 October, in partnership with YCN, we hosted a fantastic panel discussion at Kings Place about t...
Hammerson colleagues embark on The Outward Bound Trust Ambassador Programme
Next week we have six intrepid colleagues venturing out of their offices and into remote locations f...
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World Environment Day 2019
What happens on an Outward Bound Programme?
Our Outward Bound Trust Ambassadors have returned from their week of residential volunteering in the...
Hammerson masters the art of cake decorating
On the 11th April King’s Place hosted a cake decorating master class in aid of The Outward Bound Tru...
Two new installations in King's Place
New green walls and a N.A.P are boosting the health and wellbeing of colleagues at Hammerson head of...
Hammerson comes together to support our communities
Hammerson's 12th Annual Community Day was a success! Read about what happened on the day...
Hammerson and retailTRUST provide seed funding to entrepreneurs
In 2018/19, £35,000 was awarded to start-up businesses as seed funding to continue growing and devel...
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Hammerson-supported tech start-up brings artificial intelligence to Bullring shopping centre
Artificial intelligence (AI), or machine-learning, is rapidly moving from research labs to real wor...
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2019 - 2020 Charity Bursary Recipients Announced
Each year, our Shopping Centres are allocated an annual bursary to support one or two (the sum is sp...
Hammerson is Disability Confident Level 1
Hammerson is extremely pleased to commit to the UK Government's Disability Confident Scheme.
Hammerson signs groundbreaking Climate Change Commitment
To mark the start of World Green Building Week, Hammerson and 22 other leading commercial property o...
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The first international Lionheart Challenge final
In September, four teams from schools across the UK and Ireland travelled to London to take part in...
Minimising our environmental impact at Victoria Gate, Leeds
We have worked closely with the project team at Leeds Victoria gate to ensure we minimise the enviro...
Highcross' Declutter to Refresh saves waste from landfill and supports local charity
Shoppers donated pre-loved clothes and received advice from pro-stylists on how to create an autumn...
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Hammerson Become First Property Company to Win an EDR Funding Pot
Hammerson and DECC are joining forces to deliver electricity savings at peak times.
Celebrating Sustainable Suppliers with the Release of our 2014 Annual Supplier Report
As a property development and asset management company, much of our business activity is delivered t...
Creating a Sustainable Blueprint for Retail Parks with B&Q
A collaboration between B&Q and Hammerson has been shortlisted for the sustainability of the year by...
Collaboration with Costa leads to a roll out of leading edge 'Zero Energy' design
In 2017 our second Zero Energy Coffee Pod will open. The hub builds on our award winning project wi...
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Life Cycle Carbon Assessment
Understanding the capital and operational carbon impacts of our centres is key to reducing them
Barnet EBP & Brent Cross
Retail Parks Bug Hotel Competition
The onsite teams at Hammerson’s retail parks were tasked with the exciting challenge of structuring...
World Mental Health Day
To celebrate World Mental Health Day, WotSpace at Highcross Leicester came together with organisatio...
Opération SOS Cancer du sein
Hammerson becomes one of 16 leading European companies to sign up to new energy efficiency commitment
Today marks the signing of a new commitment for Hammerson as Leading Built Environment businesses c...
Energy Policy
Hammerson is one of Europe's leading property investment and development companies, who owns, operat...
Environmental Policy
Hammerson is one of Europe's leading property investment and development companies whose principal a...
Climate Change Policy
Hammerson recognises that the built environment is a major consumer of natural resources and one of...
Biodiversity Policy
Our operations have the potential to impact on biodiversity both directly and indirectly. As such, w...
Responsible Procurement Policy
As one of Europe’s leading property companies Hammerson is a major procurer of goods and services. W...
Flexible Working And Equal Opportunities Policy
Hammerson is committed to facilitating working arrangements which vary from the standard pattern and...
Hammerson Health and Safety Policy
Positive Places are safe places. Safeguarding our employees, customers and suppliers is a constant f...
Code Of Conduct
We ask our employes to treat other people with respect, act fairly in dealing with customers, suppl...
Supply Chain Code Of Conduct and Procurement
In 2009, Hammerson launched a responsible procurement policy to improve our engagement with our supp...
Volunteering Policy
We aim to deliver innovative volunteering programmes that aim to positively benefit local communitie...
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