Appendix: Further guidance for achieving sustainable infrastructure

These ten principles can be used to support integrated, systems-level approaches that can increase governments’ abilities to meet a given level of service need with less infrastructure that is more resource-efficient, pollutes less, is more resilient, is more cost-effective and has fewer risks than ‘business-as-usual’ approaches.

Carbon positive principles

Environmental positive principles

Zero waste and circularity principles

Comments

The core principles, as agreed by the London Legacy Corporation's Communities Committee, are as follows.

These principles will help support the following objectives.