Our stories

How our Green Travel Scheme helps people on Prologis Parks get to work, reduces local traffic and safeguards the environment.

Back in 2008, with the help of The Planet Mark and its charity partners at The Eden Project and Cool Earth, we became the first UK property company to measure, reduce and mitigate the carbon emissions embodied in the structure and fabric of our new buildings.

Less than twenty years ago, our development at The Bridge in Dartford was a derelict, overgrown site. Today, The Bridge, a joint venture between Prologis and Dartford District Council, is home to over 1,500 new houses, 80 acres of public open space, schools, leisure facilities and a thriving business community. It’s also a development with sustainability at its heart.

As part of my undergraduate placement programme at Prologis UK, I had been engaging, on a low level, with sustainability within the built environment, and it was through Prologis’s engagement with Planet Mark that I was sponsored to make the long trip south to Cornwall.

Archaeologists have discovered that Prologis Park Hemel Hempstead at Maylands Gateway, is building on a history of industrial activity at the site.

Environmental charity Cool Earth has established a project in Papua New Guinea to protect the rainforest from the advance of palm plantations and we are supporting this initiative as part of our approach to carbon mitigation.

Over the past 40 years, half of the world’s rainforest has been destroyed and the main cause, according to environmental charity Cool Earth, is poverty.

Spring has arrived at Prologis RFI DIRFT and the lambing season is underway. Earlier this year, the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire brought a flock of rare breed sheep to Lilbourne Meadows.

In the middle of the grassland that will become Lilbourne Meadows to the north of Prologis RFI DIRFT, sits a small, square, windowless house. Although it looks like a gingerbread house straight out of a fairytale, this mysterious little building is in fact, a specially designed bat house.