The UK's most walkable cities

Ah, Florence.

Its cobblestone streets "may not be ideal for breaking in that new pair of Gucci stilettos", but then only by foot can its soul truly be discovered.

That's the view of travel guide Frommer's, who on the Huffington Post site last week listed what in their view is the world's ten most walkable cities.

They don't say how they devised the list, but Florence tops it, followed by the likes of Paris, Sydney and Edinburgh, which they say is "steeped in history" but still possesses "a cutting-edge contemporary feel".

Edinburgh is the only UK town to make the cut. But do you think others deserve a place on the list? Let us know which town or city you think is the most (and least) pedestrian-friendly and why by adding your comments below.

'Big Society bill' boosted by Commons backing

Earlier this month, MPs voted for a bill that would require all public sector contracts to demonstrate how they would deliver positive social, economic and environmental benefits to communities to be sent to a Public Bill Committee for scrutiny.

Organisations such as the Social Enterprise Coalition (SEC), which represents social enterprises across England, have campaigned to rally support for Chris White MP’s private members bill – the so-called Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill - for some time, and the fact that it will now go through to committee stage, awaiting a reading and debate in the House of Lords, marks a significant step forward for them.

If passed, the bill would make social impact a statutory consideration in public services procurement, meaning that contracts would have to deliver added benefits such as the creation of local jobs or the reduction of carbon emissions. The implications for the social enterprise sector could potentially be huge – as the requirements contained in the bill would be an added incentive for commissioners to appoint social enterprises as public service providers.

'It could become one of the most important pieces of legislation for our sector in a generation' Peter Holbrook, Social Enterprise Coalition

What’s more, the legislation would encourage public bodies to ensure that public services have clear social benefits. Many would see this as particularly important given the coalition’s recent decision to scrap the social-economic duty contained in Labour’s Equality Act, which would have forced public bodies to consider how any strategic decisions would impact on the poorest groups of people.

Civil society minister Nick Hurd was one of the members who voted in favour of the bill. Former communities minister Hazel Blears did the same.

SEC chief executive Peter Holbrook (pictured above with Prime Minister David Cameron) said: "We cannot be anything other than delighted with the result of the vote. It was a major hurdle to overcome. As a result of this bill we have increased awareness of the importance of social enterprise and social value among MPs.

"If the bill proceeds, it could become one of the most important pieces of legislation for our sector in a generation. The fact that it has support from the three main parties makes the turning of this bill into law next year a very real possibility."

And a statement from Senscot, which represents Scottish social enterprises, said: "In England, the private members bill to make social impact a consideration in public sector procurement, now has government backing and stands an excellent chance of getting through. This would be a significant advance for our movement."

Now that the proposed legislation has passed second reading it will go the Public Bill Committee in early 2011 to be debated further, so watch this space.

By Sarah Townsend

Social enterprise in pictures

It was national Social Enterprise Day yesterday and, in case it passed you by, we’ve put together a slideshow of eleven photographs that are going head-to-head in a competition "to find the image that best shows the unique and transformative work of social enterprise" – so say its organisers.

The Social Vision: Business at its Best competition, which is now in its third year, is run by umbrella body the Social Enterprise Coalition and social lender Triodos Bank. The organisations are asking members of the public to take part in an online vote to decide which image should win.

So, have a browse through the images – which depict various social enterprises in action, such as homeless people learning cooking skills, children participating in a walk-to-school scheme and an engineer restoring an old washing machine to save it from landfill – and visit http://www.socialenterpriselive.com/competition if you’d like to vote. The deadline is 30 November.

UPDATE 1 December: Fordhall Community Land Initiative, a community-owned farm in Shropshire, was named winner of the photo prize last night. The winning photo will be on display alongside the other finalists as part of a free exhibition at Lumen gallery space in Tavistock Square, London, until 7 January 2011.

By Sarah Townsend

Pathfinders: Where do we go from here?

This Channel 4 expose on the 'shelving' of Labour's Housing Market Renewal pathfinder programme is well worth watching.

Richard Blakeway, Boris Johnson's housing adviser

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Street spirit: a community veteran's guide to the Big Society

Sarah Townsend reviews a book that aims to set out the secrets of successful community regeneration

David Robinson is chief executive of east London charity Community Links, which works to support social regeneration initiatives in the deprived London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

He recently published a short book, Out of the ordinary: learning from the Community Links’ approach to social regeneration, which claims to uncover the secrets of social regeneration and what makes a great community worker. Having co-founded Community Links 33 years ago and headed up the charity ever since, Robinson is probably more in-the-know than many.

'A fence at the top of a cliff is always better than an ambulance at the bottom' David Robinson

In the book he claims that a successful Big Society organisation does not arrive by accident, or good luck, but is carefully created and can be replicated.

He draws on lessons learned from the experience of Rokeby Hub in Stratford, one of the 21 east London-based neighbourhood centres that Community Links manages, and suggests reasons for its success. The centre, which attracts around 200 people each week, offers a range of community activities, from mother and toddler groups to pensioners’ bingo sessions, youth clubs and after-school children’s projects.

The book claims that, since opening in 2009, there has been a 49 per cent drop in reported incidents of antisocial behaviour on the local housing estate and a 56 per cent drop in reported crime – attributed both to the police and the work of the hub, Robinson says.

It suggests that "housing a range of disparate and unconnected activities under one roof is not in itself a sufficiently helpful service for anyone – particularly for [disadvantaged] people whose lives are often complicated, troubled and chaotic". Instead, the programme of activities, the services provided, the staff – both paid and voluntary – and the links between them are crucial, so that service users feel connected with other people and activities in the local area, the book says.

It includes a list of 15 attributes of a successful community worker, among them: always seeing the person, not the problem; being able to exert influence, not control, and being an active and passionate collaborator.

The book also stresses the importance of early intervention, or "early action", as Robinson describes it, in disadvantaged communities. At one point he writes: “A fence at the top of a cliff is always better than an ambulance at the bottom.”

This is something Robinson reiterates in an interview with Society Guardian published yesterday, where he says: "We need to become an 'early action' economy," – for example focussing available resources on youth clubs and community groups that can work with people at a very local level and prevent problems spiralling out of control at a later date.

Out of the ordinary: learning from the Community Links' approach to social regeneration has been self-published by Community Links and is being sold without a cover price. The charity asks that readers donate what they think it is worth having read it, which we reckon makes Robinson the Thom Yorke of the community sector - in 2007, Yorke’s band Radiohead asked their fans to donate to the band whatever they thought their In Rainbows album was worth.

It worked for Radiohead. Let’s hope it works for Community Links. Email Richard McKeever at the address here to request a copy.

Heseltine on growth fund and Thames Gateway

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The former deputy prime minister on why London should not get its hopes up too high for the Regional Growth Fund and the need for a public-private sector body to lead the Thames Gateway regeneration scheme

Lord Heseltine is the Government's chief adviser on the new £1.4 billion Regional Growth Fund, set up by the coalition Government to encourage private sector job growth in parts of the country especially dependent on public sector employment. He talks to Regeneration & Renewal about the kind of projects that he envisages the money being spent on, and where.

Talking on the sidelines of the recent Future of London summit, Heseltine also discusses the future for the Thames Gateway in the wake of the decision by the Government to withdraw all dedicated funding for the scheme, the urban development corporation model for regeneration, and why he thinks a mix of public and private sector bodies is best placed to complete arguably Europe's biggest regeneration project.

Watch more Regeneration & Renewal videos at youtube.com/regenandrenewal. For more news from the Future of London conference, click here.

Heseltine is the chairman of Haymarket Group, which publishes Regeneration & Renewal.

England's most beautiful car park

A photograph of a car park in Bristol has won a competition organised by the Government's design watchdog to find areas of outstanding urban beauty in England.

"There are 35 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England. But 90 per cent of us live in towns and cities and most people rarely get out and visit them," the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment said in launching the competition.

Commenting on a photo by competition winner Christopher Hoare of the Galleries car park in Bristol (right) yesterday, the judges said: "You have that wonderful blast of colour from the ethereal Ferris wheel, contrasted with the cheap metal of the door panel and the surprise of the church tower. Just like urban beauty itself, this is about strong juxtapositions, and you can read it on many levels." Whatever that means.

There were more than 750 entries - evidence, perhaps, that the topic of beauty, which Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons has said is a taboo subject, is becoming less so. To see a slideshow of the impressive shortlisted photographs, click here.

Mori have also made a ten-minute film, Beautiful Sheffield?, which explores questions of beauty with local residents, commissioned by Cabe in collaboration with the Arts & Humanities Research Council. Watch it here.

We'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the topic - do you think urban beauty matters? Is it still taboo?

Poll: Is London a special case?

Should London be treated as a special case for public investment?

Certainly that’s the view of London mayor Boris Johnson, who, in the run-up to last month’s Comprehensive Spending Review, lobbied the Treasury in an attempt to ensure that the capital was not clobbered too hard when it came to spending cuts. His basic argument is that London is the engine for the UK economy as a whole, and as a result should be spared the worst of the cuts, lest this engine start to splutter.

Johnson has also warned that more than 80,000 London families could be forced from their homes by the Government’s reforms to housing benefit, unless the plans are softened. The mayor has reportedly lobbied for an existing hardship fund to be allocated 90 per cent towards London.

The spending review settlement was kind to Johnson on Crossrail - London’s new east-west rail line was one of a number of transport infrastructure schemes to escape the cuts.

The Government has also confirmed that the mayor will be able to coordinate bids from London to the £1.4 billion Regional Growth Fund, which is curious given that one of the main objectives of the pot, according to ministers, is for it to boost the private sector in areas currently over reliant on the public sector. The public sector contributes 22.2 per cent of employment in London – well below the national average, according to a report published last year by urban policy think-tank Centre for Cities.

There’s also the none-too-small matter of the £9.3 billion being spent on the Olympics in east London, up from the original budget of £2.4 billion.

So in our latest poll, we want to know if you think London deserves to be considered a special case by Whitehall or if you think a greater proportion of resources should be directed north of the Watford Gap. Vote in the poll at the top of this blog and comment below.

Interview: HCA London head David Lunts

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David Lunts, the London director of housing and regeneration quango the Homes & Communities Agency, talks to Regeneration & Renewal editor Richard Garlick on the sidelines of the Future of London Conference 2010.

Lunts discusses the impact of last month's Comprehensive Spending Review on financing and delivering urban regeneration in London, including the effect of the Government's new affordable housing investment model and what the new economic development body for the capital might look.

The regeneration brain drain

In the current issue of Regeneration & Renewal, we report that the number of actual and planned redundancies across England’s nine regional development agencies has already neared 1,000.

This blow to the sector comes on top of news that some local authorities are beginning to announce regeneration job cuts after chancellor George Osborne’s spending review last month, in which it was announced that town halls would take a 26 per cent hit in their funding from central government.

Linking to the RDA story on the Regeneration & Renewal Twitter feed, one practitioner, based in Truro, tweeted: "Was this really what was needed - good people will be lost."

Another, based in "Leeds and Brockley", warned: "Will be a lot more [redundancies] announced by June 2011."

What happens next for these regeneration practitioners? Last month, Leeds City Council (and former boss of regional development agency Yorkshire Forward) chief executive Tom Riordan said the city’s economy is at risk of being hit by a "brain drain" because up to 100 economic and regeneration experts could lose their jobs. The Yorkshire Post reported that Riordan was urging the Government to step in and ensure that well-qualified specialists currently working at the regional development agency, which employs 450 people, do not abandon the city.

In our latest issue, one expert warns that the fact that the coalition would not fund day-to-day running costs for the emerging local enterprise partnerships means there would be limited scope for ex-RDA staff to find jobs at LEPs.

Are you a regeneration practitioner who feels your job at risk? If so, have you started planning for the next career move, one that might involve you moving out of the sector? Or do you feel confident that you’ll still be working in the sector 12 months from now – perhaps in your area at least, you think fears of a brain drain are overstated.

Whatever your experience, and ahead of our fully comprehensive careers and salary survey that will appear in the 22 November issue, we’d like you to share your thoughts on this blog.

Councils bid to maintain regeneration activity in face of cuts

Regeneration remains a priority for council chiefs following the spending review but will be expected to take its share of the pain, finds Ben Willis

When I called around some of England’s councils in preparation for Regeneration & Renewal’s coverage of local authority funding cuts, Sheffield City Council’s John Mothersole offered a brief glimpse into the present realities of life for the average council chief executive.

Returning my call a couple of hours after the allotted time, Mothersole pointedly made light of the fact he was taking time out to talk to me. “Don’t worry, I’m not too busy,” he said wryly. “It’s as quiet as a mouse up in the town hall at the moment.” There was no attempt to disguise the irony in his voice.

It’s only a couple of weeks on from chancellor George Osborne’s much dreaded comprehensive spending review (CSR), and councils across the country are heads down trying to work out how to make the savings imposed on them by the coalition Government. Local authorities fared badly in the CSR, collectively taking a 26 per cent hit to their funding from central government over the next four years. This and the in-year cuts already announced to the area-based grant that covers pots such as the Working Neighbourhoods Fund have left councils facing real difficulties in meeting their regeneration and economic development commitments in the coming years.

The good news is that while precisely how the cuts will affect local authority business is not yet known, councils seem generally optimistic over the future of regeneration and economic development. “Not everything has gone,” Mothersole said. “We mustn’t just give up because things got a bit more difficult.”

This seems to encapsulate the prevalent mood in other town halls at the moment: regeneration is as much a priority as it ever was, but the rules of the game – the means by which it will be achieved – have changed. “The era of ready access to grant has gone, so let’s not waste time looking around for what no longer exists; let’s look at different ways of achieving what want to achieve,” said Mothersole.

In Greater Manchester, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council chief executive Eamonn Boylan said future regeneration and economic development work would involve a greater emphasis on collaboration. “In Greater Manchester, we’re looking as ten authorities across the whole range of what we do in order to find ways in which we can do things more effectively, and instead of ten times, do it once. We’ll be looking at things like economic development in that light and whether there’s more that we might do collaboratively in order to increase the efficiency of delivery across what is a single economic geography.”

And the retreat of the state means a greater role for the private sector. In the North-East, Newcastle City Council’s executive director of regeneration David Slater said the authority was looking at new ways of using the private sector’s financial muscle to keep regeneration moving.

“We’re looking at Tif [Tax Increment Financing]; we’ve got a pilot ready to push on that,” he said. “We’re looking at new funding mechanisms for housing investment. [and] all those things where we can unlock private sector funding or find different ways of using public money. We can use our resources as a city, which are still very significant, to make investments and de-risk.”

Yet reliance on the private sector to play a larger role in regeneration is not without its concerns. Down in west London, Pat Hayes, executive director of regeneration and housing at the London Borough of Ealing, said the Government’s aim of relying more generally on the private sector was predicated on a growing economy. What happens, he asked, if the cuts instituted by the CSR prevent this from materialising?

“The issue is whether it causes a dip. We’re just starting to see the property market coming out of recession; if CSR chokes that off, then that could be a problematic as far as we’re concerned. This is probably most significant thing for us, because so much of what we do is about investor confidence and channelling that confidence, and shepherding the private sector. We’ve never been a big recipient of state money.”

And of course the bullish attitude of senior town hall personnel does not disguise the fact that part of local authorities’ new way of doing things will mean their being lighter on their feet – in other words losing staff.

The first signs of what is to come emerged last week when Stoke-on-Trent Council announced it was likely to shed 70 members of its regeneration team as a part of a planned cull of 700 members of staff over the next year. How many regeneration staff will be lost from other authorities is not yet clear, but all of the council bosses I spoke to said job cuts would be unavoidable. Their message was that regeneration is as much of a priority as it ever was, but that it would be expected to take its share of the pain.

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What they own: The RDAs' land and property assets revealed

Below is a list of the land and property owned by England's regional development agencies - thanks to William Green from The Journal for alerting us to the list's existence. The list - which is staggeringly long - includes quirky entries such as a greyhound stadium in Portsmouth and a fish and chip shop in Scarborough. But on a more serious note, the huge number of business, industrial and brownfield sites on the list perhaps explain why ministers are still struggling to work out how to deal with the RDAs' legacy.

ADVANTAGE WEST MIDLANDS

Asset Title/ Address/Description City/Town
Former Kington Cottage Hospital Kington
3 Elms Trading Estate, Bakers Lane Hereford
Unit 1 Golden Hillock Road, Birmingham
Business Link HQ, Quinton, Birmingham
Parkside Coventry
Castle Gate Dudley
Hilton Cross Featherstone
Radford Coventry
Ansty Park Strategic Site Coventry
Bilston Urban Village Wolverhampton
I54 Wobaston Road Wolverhampton
City Wharf Lichfield
Pebble Mill Birmingham
Camp Hill Urban Village Nuneaton
Wem timber Yard Wem
Eastside Birmingham
Icknield Port Loop Birmingham
Walsall Waterfront Walsall
Longbridge Birmingham
Ex Matthew Bolton College site Birmingham
Aston Community & Sport centre Birmingham
Corus Site Birmingham
Stoneleigh Stoneleigh
Icentral Wolverhampton
Former Job Centre Stoke
9 Broad Street Stoke
Wilkes Bros Stoke
Sandwell College site West Bromwich
Andromedas Building Stoke
Aston Employment Land Birmingham
148 Brierley Hill Dudley
Dog & Partridge pub Brierley Hill Dudley
Bridgnorth Employment Land Bridgenorth
Browns Lane Coventry
Ex Media Site Coventry
Wall & Floor Tiles Site Coventry
Former Rentokill Site Birmingham
Larch Homes 28 London Road Coventry
Far Gosford Street Coventry
Land adjacent to Edgbaston Cricket Ground Birmingham
Former EON Substation @ Bromsgrove Technology Park Bromsgrove
Sideway Stoke
Former Lea Hall Colliery Rugeley

In addition to the above land assets, AWM is also the registered proprietor of the following freehold properties which are not of material value:

Chatterley Valley Stoke
James Bridge Darlaston
Railway Lands – Ransom Strip Oswestry

EAST OF ENGLAND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Asset Title/Description City/Town
Northwick Road Canvey Island
Trailer Site, Cromer Road North Walsham
Riverside Business Park Lowestoft
Thorby Ave March
Southbank North & South Peterborough
Glebe Road Peterborough
Wiggenhall Road Watford
The Hythe, Colchester
Rope Walk Ipswich
Brooklands Jaywick
Saul's Wharf Great Yarmouth
Wyboston Bedfordshire
Tudor Estate Meadows Jaywick
South Denes Road Great Yarmouth
Cranfield Mill Ipswich
Castle Acre Road Swaffham

EAST MIDLANDS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Asset Title/Description City/Town
Shirebrook Colliery Bolsover
Southfield Lane Bolsover
Coney Green, Clay Cross Chesterfield
Wigwam Lane Hucknall
Gedling Colliery Gedling
Steetley Colliery Nr Worksop,
Cotgrave Colliery Rushcliffe
Avenue Coking Works Chesterfield
Pleasley Bolsover
Debdale Lane Mansfield
Wigwam Lane (surplus landscaping) Hucknall
Shireoaks Triangle (surplus landscaping) Worksop
Portland Drive Shirebrook
Manton Wood (woodland) Worksop
Rawdon Colliery Moira
Sherwood Energy Village Ollerton
Sherwood Park, Kodak Expansion Annesley
Unit 3, Poulton Drive Nottingham
Abbey Meadows Abingdon
Albany Works, Carlton Road Nottingham
Unit A3, Poulton Drive Nottingham
Princes Supermarket, Bold Lane Derby
Subaru Site, 8 Siddals Road Derby
Derby Rail Centre Derby
Former BOC, Derby
38 John Street, Derby
30 John Street, Derby
32 and 34 John Street, Derby
Sherwood Park (land scaping and roads) Annesley
Mint Road and Tarragone Road Leicester
Randal way (Access road) Retford

NORTH-WEST REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Asset Title/Description City/Town
Land adjacent to Renaissance House Warrington
Lillyhall East Industrial Estate Workington
Devonshire Road Industrial Estate Workington
Lillyhall Business Park Workington
Land at Mercury Court Liverpool
Lea Green Industrial Estate St Helens
Croft Business Park Bromborough
Wavertree Technology Park Liverpool
Hooton Business Park Ellesmere Port
Whitehaven Commerce Park Whitehaven
Estuary Commerce Park Liverpool
Estuary – National Bio Manufacturing Centre Liverpool
Estuary – Aerodrome Complex Liverpool
Central Park (North Manchester Business Park) Manchester
Ancoats Urban Village Manchester
Boulevard Industry Park Liverpool
Kingsway Business Park Rochdale
Borders Business Park Longton
Station Road Silloth
Venture Point Speke
Harbord Street Industrial Estate Liverpool
Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus Daresbury
Wirral International Business Park Bromborough
Stonebridge Business Park Gillmoss
73 – 81 and 353 - 355 Edge Lane, Liverpool
Cross Keys House Moorfields
Lillyhall North Industrial Estate Workington
Kingston House Liverpool
Bickershaw Colliery Leigh
Agecroft Colliery Salford
Cronton Colliery Merseyside
Ashton Field Walkden

In addition to the above land assets the NWDA is also the registered proprietor of the following freehold properties which have no material value:

Mann Island, Liverpool
Jordan Street Liverpool
TGWU Building Liverpool
Wingates Bolton
Victoria Way Rawtenstall
New Chester Road Tranmere
Derwent Mills Cockermouth
Windy Arbour Road Huyton

ONE NORTH-EAST

Asset Title/Description City/Town
Stella House, Newburn Riverside Newcastle
Commissioner Quay Blyth
Former Kwiksave Berwick
Quayside Berwick
Spittal Quay Berwick
Cowpen Blyth
Hadston Industrial Estate Hadston
Science City (Cleared Brewery site), Newcastle
106 Corporation Street Newcastle
Former Westgate House Newcastle
53-57 Blandford Square Newcastle
Tyne Bridge Tower Newcastle
Circatex (Large demolished factory) South Shields
Harton Staithes South Shields
Stadium Park Sunderland
1 Hay Street Sunderland
26 Wilson Street Sunderland
Cottam Bros Sunderland
1 Stobart Street Sunderland
Doyles Scrapyard Sunderland
Former Ice Factory Site Newcastle
Former Wimpey Site (Malmo Quay) Newcastle
Former Heaney Car Garage Newcastle
35-40 Holmeside, Sunderland
1-6 Holmeside Sunderland
133 High Street West Sunderland
134-136 High Street West Sunderland
1 William Street Sunderland
11-18 Hudson Road Sunderland
9-11 Villiers Street Sunderland
12-14 Villiers Street (Former Temple Securities) Sunderland
2-4 Nile Street Sunderland
9-10 Nile Street Sunderland
20 Nile Street Sunderland
45 Nile Street Sunderland
47-50 Nile Street Sunderland
Quality Tooling (18m2 parcel of land) Sunderland
Old Shire Hall Durham
Durham Ice Rink Durham
Hotel Development Site – DCCC, Chester Le Street Chester Le Street
Central Park Darlington
Land at Durham Tees Valley Airport Durham
Middlehaven Middlesbrough
QBM Precision Engineering (North Shore), Stockton
Wynyard Park Wynyard
Imperial Park Middlesbrough
Heighton Lane Newton Aycliffe
Blyth Quayside Blyth
NaREC, Blyth Dock Blyth
South West Industrial Estate Peterlee
Viking Industrial Park Jarrow
Belmont Business Park Durham
New York Industrial Estate North Tyneside
Balliol Business Park Newcastle
Hylton Park Estate Sunderland
North West Industrial Estate Peterlee
Seeham Grange Industrial Estate Seaham
Evans Incubator Newton Aycliffe
North Hylton, Former Coalfield Site Sunderland
Westoe, Former Coalfield Site South Shields
Monkton, Former Coalfield Site South Shields
Weetslade, Former Coalfield Site North Tyneside
Vane Tempest, Former Coalfield Site Seaham
Dawdon, Former Coalfield Site Seaham
Foxcover, Former Coalfield Site Seaham

SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Asset Title/Description City/Town
Chatham Maritime - St Mary's Island Chatham
Chatham Maritime – South of Basins (inc. Interface land) Chatham
73 High Street Chatham
Brewsters Print Works Rochester Riverside
Gas Land Rochester Riverside
DW Clarke's Land, Hythe Street Dartford
Milestone Garage, Victoria Road Dartford
Former Unwins Depot, Victoria Road Dartford
Matrix Business Centre, Victoria Road Dartford
3 Victoria Road Dartford
Steam Crane Wharf, Lower Hythe Street Dartford
Railway Hotel, Station Approach Dartford
Former TT Electronics site, Crete Hall Road Northfleet
Red Lion Wharf, Crete Hall Road Northfleet
18-24 Charles Street Greenhithe
Rushenden link road Queenborough
Dane Paper Factory, Rushenden Road Queenborough
First Ave Queenborough
Four parcels of land Queenborough
Land at Elliotts Farm, Harty Marsh Leysdown
Regina Works, Rushenden Isle of Sheppey
Regina Cottages, Rushden Isle of Sheppey
Al - Le Logistics, Rushenden Link Road Queenborough
Former Jewsons Unit, Rushenden Road Queenborough
Stourmac site, Rushenden Road Queenborough
Former Twyfords site, Rushenden Road Queenborough
International House, Dover Place Ashford
Former Rimmel Site Ashford
Former Cattle Market Site Ashford
Crouch's Garage, Dover Place Ashford
Beaver Road / Victoria Road Ashford
Former DC Site, Elwick Rd Ashford
Elwick Rd (South) Ashford
The Marlowe Centre, St Peter's Lane Canterbury
Land at Lakesview Business Park Canterbury
Shearway Business Park, Shearway Road Folkestone
Betteshanger Business Centre and Country Park Northbourne
Buckland Paper mill, Crabble Hill Dover
Land west side of Nonnington to Eastry Road Dover
Former Sorting Office, Kings Road St Leonards-on-sea
Land at Clifton Road, Ore Hastings
Land at Church Street, Ore Hastings
Adur Business Centre, Ropetackle Shoreham-by-sea
Land at Ropetackle Shoreham-by-sea
Andover Business Centre, Caxton Close Andover
Daedalus Airfield Lee-on-Solent
Drivers Wharf, Clarke Packaging Southampton
Drivers Wharf, Ocean House Southampton
Woolston Riverside, Victoria Road Southampton
Hythe Marine Park, Shore Road, Hythe Southampton
Gosport Business Centre, Fareham Road Gosport
Frater Gate - Land behind Gosport Business Centre Gosport
Harts Farm Way / Broadmarsh Havant
Land at Southmoore Lane Havant
Tipner Greyhound Stadium, Tipner Portsmouth
Tipner – PD Site, Twyford Avenue Portsmouth
Fleet Photographic, Tipner Portsmouth
Chiltern Woodworks, Princes Risborough Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire
Faringdon Business Centre, Brunel House Faringdon
Island Technology Park, East Cowes Isle of Wight
West Medina Mills, Stag Lane, Newport Isle of Wight
Venture Quays, Castle Street, East Cowes Isle of Wight
Trinity Wharf, Trinity Road, East Cowes Isle of Wight
Land at Three Gates Road, Cowes Isle of Wight
Land at Kingston Isle of Wight
Land at Ryde Business Park, Ryde Isle of Wight
South side of Newport Road, Lake Isle of Wight

SOUTH-WEST REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Asset Title/Description City/Town
Land at Indian Queens Indian Queens Cornwall
Land at Saltash Parkway Saltash Cornwall
Derriford Business Park Plymouth
Threemilestone Ind Est Truro Cornwall
Guildford Rd ind Est Hayle Hayle Cornwall
Land at Cardrew Pool, Cornwall
Halwill Junction - Land Halwill Junction, Beaworthy, Devon
Cooksland Ind Est, Bodmin, Cornwall
Treleigh Redruth, Cornwall
St Columb Major St Columb Major, Cornwall
Shebear Ind Est - Land Shebbear, Devon
Pitts Cleave Tavistock, Devon
Delabole Delabole, Cornwall
Tolvaddon Industrial Estate Camborne, Cornwall
Brunel Business Park St Austell, Cornwall
Land at North Dorset Business Park Sturminster Newton, Dorset
Bridon Ropes Falmouth, Cornwall
Exeter Innovation Centre Exeter, Devon
Tripos Building Bude, Cornwall
Bickland Industrial Estate Falmouth, Cornwall
Callywith Gate Bodmin, Cornwall
Trevol Bus Park units 22-25 Torpoint, Cornwall
Temple Quay (plots 3 & 6) Bristol
Temple Quay Phase 3 Bristol
Bristol Science & Tech Park Bristol
Beacon Technology Park (St Lawrence's Hospital) Bodmin, Cornwall
CUC Tech Park Tremough
4 and 5 Dudnance Lane, Pool
Former TA Centre, Falmouth
Helston Business Park (Clodgey Lane Ind Est) Helston, Cornwall
Incubation/Medi Park Treliske Truro, Cornwall
Long Rock Cattle Market (land) Penzance, Cornwall
Long Rock Industrial Estate Penzance, Cornwall
St Austell Town Centre St Austell, Cornwall
Tolvaddon (land) Camborne, Cornwall
Trevol Business Park Torpoint, Cornwall
Wave Hub Hayle, Cornwall
Exeter Road Okehampton, Devon
Winkleigh (land) Winkleigh, Devon
RNAS Portland (Osprey Quay) Portland, Dorset
23 - 25/27-29 Commercial Road Gloucester,
Barbican Car Park Gloucester,
Fleece Hotel Gloucester
Gloucester Docks Gloucester
Dursley (Littlecombe) Dursley, Gloucestershire
Plymouth Int Bus. Pk Plymouth
Royal William Yard Plymouth
StoneHouse Creek Community Centre Car Park Plymouth
Morlands Glastonbury, Somerset
Western Woodcraft Frome, Somerset
Whiterock, Harbour House and Renwick House Paignton, Devon
Tidworth Emp Site Ludgershall, Wiltshire
Castle House Truro, Cornwall
Land at Penryn Penryn, Cornwall
Land at St Dennis St Dennis, Cornwall

YORKSHIRE FORWARD

Asset Title/Description City/Town
Victoria House (including Cable & Wireless Building), – (Operational) Leeds
Velocity Bradford
Furniture City Bradford
The Tyrls Bradford
Former National Tyres Building Bradford
Great Horton Road Bradford
Former Odeon Cinema and adjacent land Bradford
St Peters Building Huddersfield
Bristol Street Motors Leeds
Leodis Court Leeds
Tower Works, Holbeck Leeds
24 Kings Cross Street, (Hopwood Gateway) Halifax
25, 25A & 25B Union Street Halifax
1-5 Thomas Street Halifax
Potteric Carr Doncaster
Adwick Park Wath
Rockingham Barnsley
Site of former Nelson Mandela Building, Sheaf Square Sheffield
Former Carpetworld Premises Barnsley
May Day Green Barnsley
Metropolitan Centre Barnsley
Former CEAG building Barnsley
Digital Campus Phase 1 Sheffield
Digital Campus Phase 2 Sheffield
Sheaf House (Sheffield Digital Campus Phase 3) Sheffield
Porter Brook site Sheffield
Advanced Manufacturing Park Technology Centre, (ITC,EETC) Waverley Rotherham
Waverley Plot 4, The Advanced Manufacturing Park Rotherham
Colburn Business Park Catterick
Former ABB Site, Holgate Park York
Fish & Chip shop Scarborough
Former Mermaid Pub Scarborough
Burn Airfield Selby
Europarc Grimsby
Capitol Park Goole
Riley Centre Hull
Burma Drive Hull
ABP Site –Quays ph 2 Hull
Tower Street, Hull
Island Wharf, (incl. Site R3b) Hull

Coalfield Portfolio (YF hold beneficial interest)
Dinnington Colliery Rotherham
Green Lane Featherstone
Grimethorpe Colliery Barnsley
Hickleton Colliery Barnsley
Roundwood Colliery Rotherham
Smithywood Sheffield
Woodhouse Farm Pontefract

Coalfield Portfolio (YF non beneficial interest)
Askern Colliery Doncaster
Barton Lane Doncaster
Bentley Doncaster
Brodsworth Colliery Doncaster
Carr Lodge Farm Doncaster
Hesley Wood Sheffield
Kiveton Colliery Rotherham
Adwick Park, Wath Upon Dearne Rotherham