For Derwent London
Network, Camden
A 136,300 sq ft grade-A office at 21 Brock Street, fully pre-let to Databricks and anchoring the Knowledge Quarter. We coordinate the end-use Section 106 programme, a different challenge from construction-phase delivery, and one most consultancies don't take on.
The brief
A different challenge from construction-phase delivery.
Network sits inside the Knowledge Quarter and is fully pre-let to Databricks. The Schedule 7 obligations attach to the end-use rather than the build. That makes it a different problem entirely. There is no Tier 1 contractor with a multi-year apprenticeship pipeline to anchor against. There are no labour histograms for laying brick. The commitments are about the building's working life: who gets ringfenced access to the jobs inside it, how Camden SMEs make it into the supply chain, what audit-grade record gets retained for ten years.
Most consultancies decline end-use S106 because it is harder to scope, longer-tailed and quieter. We took it on because end-use is where most of a building's social impact actually happens.
Our approach
End-use commitments, designed in alongside the leasing.
The S106 programme is published live to Camden through Opportunity Network, and tracked on the same evidence base Derwent reports against. The commitments below run for the building's operational life, with a ten-year audit-grade evidence retention requirement.
Apprenticeships, ringfenced for Camden
Levels 2 and 3 apprenticeships, accessible to Camden residents, designed around real roles inside the operational building rather than placeholder positions.
STEAM school placements
Work placements for Camden 16+ students through the borough's STEAM schools, brokered through the Knowledge Quarter network.
London Living Wage check
Every role inside the building checked against the London Living Wage as a condition of the programme.
Vacancies into Good Work Camden
Open roles pushed directly into the Council's Good Work Camden brokerage, so the route to the job is through Camden's own infrastructure, not a third-party board.
Camden SMEs into the supply chain
Meet the Buyer events that bring Camden suppliers into the operational supply chain for the building, including catering, FM, security and professional services.
Ten-year evidence retention
Audit-grade record of every commitment kept on Opportunity Platform for ten years, supporting Derwent's ESG reporting and Camden's monitoring duties.
Featured film · Derwent London Snug Sessions
The social impact of a building.
Derwent London invited Tom Storey to join their Snug Sessions series with Paul Lynchehaun (Project Director at Laing O'Rourke) and Sam Carlsson (Senior Sustainability Manager at Derwent), hosted by LionHeart. The session unpicks the effect a building has on different communities across its lifespan, the question that sits at the centre of the Network programme.
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Snug Session: The Social Impact of a Building · Derwent London, May 2022 · Hosted by LionHeart, with Tom Storey, Paul Lynchehaun (Laing O'Rourke) and Sam Carlsson (Derwent London) · View on Derwent London→
Founder · Storey Consulting
Tom Storey
Local Employment Coordinator on the programme. Brings the alignment-layer perspective to the panel.
Project Director · Laing O'Rourke
Paul Lynchehaun
Tier 1 contractor view on construction-phase social value and supply chain inclusion.
Sustainability · Derwent London
Sam Carlsson
Owner-developer view on stewardship across the building's lifespan.
Voices from the session
From the Snug Session.
Pull-quotes from Tom's contributions to the Derwent panel. Awaiting transcript. Once the captions or transcript file is available, the four placeholders below will be replaced with the lines that landed hardest.
"[ Quote 1 from Tom Storey on the social impact of a building. To be added once transcript is available. ]"
"[ Quote 2, likely on alignment, on end-use vs. construction-phase impact, or on the council/community relationship. ]"
"[ Quote 3, possibly on the Camden brokerage, on STEAM schools, or on what most consultancies don't take on. ]"
"[ Quote 4, closing line from Tom. ]"
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What's next
From handover into operation.
The programme is now in the operational phase. Each apprenticeship cohort, each placement, each Meet the Buyer event, each LLW check is logged on Opportunity Network and held against the deed. Derwent reports against the same record. Camden monitors against the same record. Databricks recruits against the same record.
End-use S106 only works if the obligation is carried into the building's operating life. That carry is what we run.
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