Wynyard Park’s drive to be green is given a lift

Wynyard Park is taking part in this year’s ‘National liftshare Day’ in a drive to encourage its staff and tenants to think about reducing pollution and congestion through carsharing.

WP Staff

The annual nationwide initiative, which takes place this year on 9^th June, is being supported by the prestigious 700-acre business development as part of the site’s bid to become a greener place to work and forms part of its overall travel plan.

The aim of the day is to encourage people to share the journey to and from work. Benefits include helping the environment by cutting harmful exhaust emissions, making more efficient use of space on roads and helping to keep travel costs down.

As well as promoting the scheme throughout the site with banners, posters and leaflets, Wynyard Park is contacting each tenant individually to provide further information and is offering all participants a voucher for a free drink at the site’s exclusive Java café.

In order to plans journeys, anybody interested in taking part will be able to register their interest free-of-charge on a wi-fi laptop set up specially for the scheme.

Anna Stone, Travel Plan Co-ordinator from Wynyard Park is in charge of the project and has overall responsibility for the site’s travel plan.

“Having conducted traffic surveys in the past, we are very keen to develop a comprehensive traffic plan, with a full package of measures to encourage staff and tenants to use alternatives to car journeys for one. Supporting National liftshare Day is just one of the initiatives that we have planned and I am confident that the scheme will raise awareness of this issue and may even prompt people to make longer term changes to travel,” said Anna.

She added: “In the future, we hope to include further information in our travel plan, as part of our commitment to helping the environment, and we are particularly keen to develop public transportation routes to Wynyard Park.”

At the end of 2007 Wynyard Park Ltd announced plans for the creation of a 2000 home eco-village on the site as part of its aim to create a ground-breaking eco friendly mixed-use development for the region.  The long-term vision is to create a sustainable community incorporating a mixed use that facilitates work, leisure and living and provides for a high quality of life and well-being.

To reflect this a new green masterplan is currently being drawn up for the site that aims to balance a wide choice of housing alongside a wide-range of commercial space to create a distinctive development with a real sense of place.

Added Anna: “There is a general green theme to many of the projects planned for the site and the projects I am working on certainly reflect this.

“In addition to the car sharing scheme, I have been looking at other ways for us to operate in an environmentally-friendly way such as using recycled paper for company stationery, changing company emails to include requests not to print unless necessary and a review of office heating and lighting.”

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