Bollo Lane phase two in Acton was a pilot for the UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard. TfL's property company says it added £447m to London in 2025/26.
The second phase of the Bollo Lane housing scheme beside Acton Town station was one of two London developments used to help shape the new UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard, Transport for London’s property company said on Friday 13 November. Places for London named it in its latest “Our Contribution” report, which puts the company’s added value to London at £447 million in the year to 31 March 2026, and at more than £1 billion since it was formed in 2023.
Places for London said two of its schemes were “used as pilots to help shape the countrywide UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard that launched earlier this year”: Bollo Lane phase two, a residential development, and 10 King William Street, a commercial office development.
What is being built on Bollo Lane
Building work began in March 2026 on 900 homes on land next to Acton Town station, half of them affordable. The West London Partnership, a joint venture between Places for London and Barratt London, is developing it. What the partnership published when work started:
- Phase 1 is being built with Grainger, as homes for private and intermediate rent; half the affordable homes in it are at London Living Rent. Its 195 homes will be bought by Places for London’s joint venture with Grainger.
- Phase 2, the one used as a net zero pilot, is with Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing. Its affordable homes are split 67% social rent and 33% shared ownership.
- From phase 2 onwards the homes are to be built to what the partnership calls a Lo-E standard, which it says goes beyond Passivhaus and should cut heating costs by 60% and carbon emissions by 90% for residents.
- The scheme also includes green space, shops and offices, and is due to be finished in December 2029.
Bollo Lane runs from Acton Town towards Chiswick, and the partnership says the scheme will improve the link between the two. The road is separately part of TfL’s West London Orbital consultation, where one of its level crossings could close to cars. It is a different site from Bollo Yard, where Ealing Council is buying 95 flats for social rent.
The £447 million figure
The report covers 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 and measures five themes: transport, housing, economic growth, social impact and environmental performance. The figures are Places for London’s own, worked out with a Strategic Impact Framework it developed with the property adviser Savills. For the year, the company says:
- about £389 million of the total was economic contribution through investment, employment, wages and taxes, with around 12,000 jobs supported across its estate;
- homes built by it and its partners produce an estimated £8 million a year in what it calls societal benefits, such as better health from stable housing, education and cost-of-living savings;
- people who found work through its training during the year are projected to earn £66 million more over their lifetimes;
- schemes finished in the year include more than 2,300 square metres of sustainable drainage, and its new homes have on average 31% less embodied carbon than the industry benchmark for residential schemes.
Since 2023 it says it has delivered more than 2,000 homes, 58% of them affordable, and started more than 4,900 on site.
Gordon Rogers, Head of Sustainability at Places for London, said: “The results are clear, we are helping London grow and giving new opportunity to people, business and communities, including those with most need, so the city can continue to be its best, with new homes and destinations that people want to be in.”
Howard Dawber, Deputy Mayor of London for Business, said Places for London was “making a significant contribution to our ongoing work to grow the capital’s economy, deliver much-needed affordable homes and champion sustainable development”.
What it means for you
- If you are looking for work in construction: Places for London says its construction skills programmes have trained more than 12,000 Londoners since 2019, and that many went on to permanent jobs or further training. Details are on its Skills Academy page.
- If you run a small business: 95% of the company’s tenants are small and medium-sized businesses. Its new Places for Growth programme is aimed at firms looking for their first shop or premises. In Ealing it is currently advertising a 248 sq ft retail unit at Acton Town station, at the Gunnersbury Lane entrance, at £18,000 a year base rent or a share of turnover, whichever is higher (listing checked 12 November 2026).
- If you live near Acton Town: the building work on Bollo Lane is due to run to the end of 2029.
New rules for how it judges projects
Alongside the report, Places for London has adopted a Sustainable Estate Framework, which builds on the Sustainable Development Framework it launched in 2021. Adopted in April 2026, it applies first to projects worth more than £500,000 and concentrates on retrofit and refurbishment of buildings it already owns. The company says it sets measurable targets under three headings: diverse communities, healthy places and local economies.
Muniya Barua, chief executive of the business group BusinessLDN, said: “London needs more homes, more investment and more opportunities for people and businesses to thrive. Places for London is helping deliver all three.”
The report and both frameworks are on the Places for London sustainability page. Its previous report, for 2024, is available as a PDF.
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