News: Rotherham Business Centre sets a green example

Moorgate Crofts Business Centre, run by Rotherham Investment & Development Office (RiDO), the Borough Council's regeneration arm, is to be included as one of the key case studies in a new landscape and design guide for Hertfordshire County Council.

The details and photographs of Moorgate Crofts – with its 8,000 plants from 48 species, making it the first major green roof on any UK business centre – will also appear on an accompanying website.

Michéla Griffith, team leader with the council's landscaping design department, said: "The fact that Moorgate Crofts has been chosen as an example of best practice is a real compliment to us. It shows that our work has been officially recognised and that other local authorities are following our example.


"Green roofs have a number of benefits – they improve urban drainage, reduce the need for air conditioning in the summer so there’s a lower level of CO2 emissions, and have double the life span of a normal roof, which means you save resources."

The building has 56 units for entrepreneurs benefiting from environmentally economic technologies such as geothermal heating and cooling.

Delegates at the Sheffield Hallam University workshop - Green Roofs - Benefits And Best Practice will visit the centre on May 12.

Rotherham Investment and Development Office website
Sheffield Hallam website
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