Last year, Pentland moved from its Lakeside Office Campus, Squires Lane to new offices in Central London. The former office campus now offers the opportunity to create a unique place for living, commercial, community and cultural activities, all within a beautiful lakeside setting, bringing positive benefits to the wider community.

Having been deeply rooted in the Finchley community since the mid-1980s, Pentland is committed to engaging with local neighbours and partners to shape the exciting next chapter for the site. To ensure the community is fully and meaningfully involved, Pentland has appointed architects and urban designers JTP to facilitate a community planning process. There will be a variety of ways to take part including the online JTP Engages interactive map, an in-person Community Co-design Event in June and a Report Back Event in July.

Over 400 people attended the Community Co-design Event on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 June 2025 to share local knowledge and contribute to co-creating a new Vision for Finchley Lakeside through a range of activities, including site tours, and workshops facilitated by the JTP design team. There was also an exhibition explaining the background of the site and team members were on hand to answer questions.

Following the Co-design Event, the JTP-led team will analyse the outcomes and draw up an illustrated Vision for Finchley Lakeside to be reported back to the local community on Tuesday 1 July, 6.45pm to 8.30pm and Wednesday 2 July, 2pm to 7.30pm.

All in-person events will take place at the Former Pentland HQ – Lakeside Office Campus.

As well as in-person events, you can have your say via the online, interactive map – click here It’s quick and easy to make a comment.