After attending Maples Teesdale and Realty Insurances 'Back to the future: The carbon advantage of retrofit over rebuild' event last week, it is great to read that Landid and Elwood Fund Management have secured planning consent to repurpose Gillingham House in London's Victoria. The former cash depository, built in 1975, will be converted into 1000 sq ft of new sustainable flexible office space. 

According to Property Week, the retrofitted all-electric and BREEAM ’Excellent’ building will be designed to out-perform GLA embodied carbon targets and will see 66% of the building’s structure area and 70% of structure volume retained, with a lightweight frame and a fully new façade.

Hopefully this green light will pave the way for the creation of many more characterful, sustainable, low carbon workplaces and encourage the adoption of the retrofit over rebuild approach across the built environment industry.