2017 Yearbook

Supporting our Community
Better Bankside - Metal Box garden scheme
With poor air quality as one of the most important public health issues facing London, funding
has been received from the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund to deliver a flagship project for Bankside.
“Better Bankside’s Clean Air Mini-Neighbourhood programme” is aimed at improving air quality
in London’s Bankside area and we were thrilled to answer a call for help by the organisers
of Phase 1 of the programme - the Metal Box garden scheme, which saw a number of skips
transformed into gardens.
We helped deliver skip flower beds and it was great to know we were approached due to our
corporate responsibility credentials.
The temporary installations are designed to help illustrate how investing in greening the more
quiet back streets can help support more walking across the neighbourhood and reduce the
number of business-related vehicle journeys in the immediate area. Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy
Mayor for Environment and Energy, said: “Better Bankside’s project is a fantastic example of
a business group using
funding from the Mayor
to reduce exposure to
pollution, at the same time
as encouraging walking
and attracting people to
local shops”.
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