Read through our newest Community Development and Social Value Strategy 2025-28
Key programmes and achievements
LancWest Connects enables individuals and organisations to connect through green volunteering across the estate. Volunteers transform and maintain green spaces, assist with community events, and support local projects, while also offering training opportunities and pathways into employment.

The Green Skills Academy offers green training to residents, local enterprises, council and supply chain staff to support deliver the council plans vision of creating an eco-neighbourhood across Notting Dale and upskill residents for green jobs. Over 100 RBKC staff and 30 contractors have participated, along with North Kensington residents. After a recent decarbonisation course, all attendee’s felt the training would make their businesses more sustainable.

LancWest Works provides residents with comprehensive support, including personalised employment assistance, opportunity to engage and network with local employers and have paid work placements, access to free training opportunities across sectors and opening career pathways and ongoing support and mentoring whilst in employment.

Co-designed with residents, the Future Neighbourhood Vision aims to enhance community services and assets on the Lancaster West Estate. It focuses on integrating services locally, a holistic approach to coordinating investment, providing new social rented homes, improving public spaces, enhancing transport and connectivity. Whilst also emphasising the importance on health and wellbeing by establishing ongoing health interventions with the NHS and prioritising a green recovery in the Grenfell recovery process.

LWNT, in partnership with estate residents, will rebuild the community through collaboration and co-design and has an ambitious plan to transform Lancaster West Estate into a 21st-century model. This plan addresses residential refurbishment priorities which meets need and ensures the estate is carbon-neutral by 2030. Resident engagement and co-design are at the heart of this estate wide plan. Extensive resident engagement has guided the refurbishment designs making the estate a source of pride. LWNT efforts were recognised with the Pineapple Community Engagement Award 2022 and 2023 for excellence across UK developments.

Community Investment focuses on securing funding for impactful estate projects, such as transformation of garden spaces to addressing digital exclusion and alleviating pressures from the cost-of-living crisis. To date this has been £7,479,080.50.
In 2024 key funded projects include:
Money MOT Project: £50,000 secured from Fusion21 Foundation to enhance financial resilience for residents to effectively reduce debt and rent arrears, increase financial education and independence which could prevent residents being at risk of homelessness.
Rewired: £50,000 secured from Material Focus to establish a new electrical recycling scheme in the Notting Dale ward and across North Kensington, enabling easy recycling of small unwanted or broken electrical items.
In 2024 key funded projects include:
Money MOT Project: £50,000 secured from Fusion21 Foundation to enhance financial resilience for residents to effectively reduce debt and rent arrears, increase financial education and independence which could prevent residents being at risk of homelessness.
Rewired: £50,000 secured from Material Focus to establish a new electrical recycling scheme in the Notting Dale ward and across North Kensington, enabling easy recycling of small unwanted or broken electrical items.

The Circular Economy programme focuses on projects which are environmentally conscious and provide cost-saving solutions across the estate. The main projects are ReStore, a furniture recycling and distribution service, and ReWired, which recycles and repairs electronic devices. The Circular Economy programme is continuously expanding, with new monthly repair workshops and a planned book exchange library, supported by securing grant funding through Material Focus as well as the Mayor of London’s Future Neighbourhoods fund.

Lancaster West Neighbour Team has committed to becoming a carbon-neutral estate by 2030, and through the green spaces and bio-diversity programmes delivered they aim to improve sustainability across the estate. Identifying underutilised spaces which could be developed into communal green spaces, community gardens and food growing spaces through the indoor smart gardens and garden MOT programmes. They pay a lead role in ensuring further bio-diversifying local green spaces and creating new thriving green spaces for residents, increasing access to nature, food growing and air quality.

Case studies
Green Skills Academy
Our Green Skills Academy was incepted to provide training and opportunities in the context of our sustainable refurbishment. One example of how we embed these opportunities into our day to day programme is through the Notting Dale Heat Network, click here to read more about this.

Future Neighbourhood Vision
Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team was set up to be an innovative new, hyper-localised neighbourhood management model, providing 21st century model housing services that have residents at their heart. With Lancaster West Residents' Association, in 2024 we won a national 'Future Place' award, from the Developer, recognising the vision for the estate.

LancWest Works
This programme offers Lancaster West and North Kensington residents’ employment, learning, and career-focused training opportunities with the Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team, partners, and contractors. The aim of the programme is to provide bespoke support for a resident’s journey into employment, enabling local people achieve their career ambition and maximise their earnings through accessing opportunities to work, learn, and network.

Lancaster West Community Fridge
In 2021, the Lancaster West Community Fridge piloted a series of community breakfasts for residents across the estate. To evolve this area within the team we have used funding from the food hub to expand into community lunches as well as cooking workshops and promotion of growing healthy nutritious ingredients across the estate.

Other key strategic resources
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Neighbourhood Strategy 2024-2027
The newest edition of the Neighbourhood Strategy 2024-27 is centred around what residents have informed that they want our team to focus on and how they would like us to carry out works through co-design. It acts upon three thematic areas, Listen and Act, Repair Refurbish and Decarbonise, Create Opportunities.
We won the 2025 Pineapple Award for Strategy - read more about this here.
We won the 2025 Pineapple Award for Strategy - read more about this here.

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Future Neighbourhood Vision
Finalised in 2022, the Lancaster West Future Neighbourhood Vision is a vision for community services and assets on and around the Lancaster West Estate. This vision has been co-designed with residents to: Join up services in the area, bring a holistic approach to coordinating investment; Improve visioning around transport, connectivity and accessibility across the area; Help establish a framework of ongoing health interventions in partnership with the NHS; Place a green recovery at the heart of Grenfell recovery.

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The Council Plan 2025-2027
The Council Plan 2023-2027 sets the priorities for the council and lays out the vision of becoming the best council for a borough that is Greener, Safer and Fairer. Its three themes underpins the service our function delivers to Lancaster West residents by continuing to provide economic opportunities, ensuring residents are at the front of decision making and ensuring Lancaster West Estate is carbon neutral by 2030.

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PlanBee
Developed in 2023, PlanBee (Lancaster West) is an ongoing programme of garden-making and landscaping across the estate led by the Sustainability team in partnership with the Community Development and Co-Design team. It aims to improve existing green spaces, create new ones where possible and develop Lancaster West into a climate-resilient garden estate.

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Sustainability Strategy 2021-2030 and 2025-2028
Released in 2021 the Sustainability Strategy showcases the ambition of our vision to become a model 21st century carbon-neutral estate, and part of the UK’s biggest eco-neighbourhood. The latest update in 2024 raises awareness of the scope of Sustainability objectives across Lancaster West and reflective of changes in the global and local context of becoming a carbon-neutral estate.
