Date: 14th October 2014,
Time: Coffee and registration from 3.30 pm, Start 4pm
Venue: CBRE, Henrietta Place W1G 0NB
There will be light refreshments provided.
To reserve your place to attend this free event please email info@thesla.org.
Date: Tuesday, 9th September 2014
Time: 5.45 for 6.15pm.
Venue: PLEASE NOTE – JLL HEAD OFFICES HAVE MOVED TO: Jones Lang LaSalle, 30 Warwick Street, London W1B 5NH
nb: Please ALSO note the slightly earlier start time. Please arrive for registration at 5.45 as we will be starting at 6.15pm.
Workplace Zones are a new output geography for England and Wales which has been produced using workplace data from the 2011 Census. It may be extended to Scotland and Northern Ireland in 2015.
This seminar will provide you with all the information you need to know about Workplace Zones from how they were created to their many uses. A must attend for any site location analyst working with address data.
Dr Samantha Cockings, Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton
The creation of an entirely new set of output geographies designed specifically for the publication of workplace-relate data and the recent publication of associated 2011 Census data provide exciting opportunities for new insights into the spatial patterns of workers and workplaces. This talk outlines ongoing research by University of Southampton, in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics, to develop a national geodemographic classification of workplace zones based on 2011 Census data.
Dr Chris Gale, Research Associate, University College London (UCL)
Created from the 2011 Census, the new Output Area Classification offers a free and open geodemographic perspective of the UK. Released by the Office for National Statistics in July 2014, this talk introduces the new classification, highlighting its methodology advances and ability to differentiate different socio and economic groups found across the UK.
Ian Coady, Geography policy and Research Manager, Office for National Statistics
Ian Coady has worked for the Office for National Statistics as Geography Policy and Research Manager for the past 5 years.
During this time he has overseen the maintenance of the Output Areas and created the Workplace Zones as a new geography for the publication of small area economic and workplace statistics.
Robin Edwards, University College London
In 2011-12 Robin studied for a Masters degree (MRes) at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. The degree focused on GIS technologies, geographical and spatial analysis, urban modelling, understanding complexity and data visualisation. His dissertation analysed the 2011 riots in London, with a focus on their spatial structure and underlying motivations for participation.
In 2010 Robin gained an Honours degree (a South African higher Bachelor’s qualification) in Public Policy at the University of Cape Town. His research investigated the dynamic processes underlying policy formulation, implementation and monitoring and evaluation, particularly with respect to the state of innovation within the South African public sector.
From 2001-10 he served in the British Diplomatic Service, working in London and various embassies and missions overseas. His work included promoting bilateral and multilateral foreign relations, and political analysis and reporting.
Dr Samantha Cockings, Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton
Dr Samantha Cockings is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environment at University of Southampton. She developed the methods employed by the Office for National Statistics to maintain the 2011 Census Output Area geographies as well those used to create 2011 Workplace Zones, the first ever set of output geographies to be designed specifically for the release of workplace-related data in the UK.
Dr Chris Gale, Research Associate, University College London (UCL)
Dr Chris Gale created the new Output Area Classification, in partnership with the Office for National Statistics, as part of his PhD undertaken in University College London’s Department of Geography. He currently works as a Research Associate in UCL’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering as part of the EPSRC funded Crime, Policing and Citizenship project.
Our 30 Warwick Street office is situated towards the south of Regent Street, near Piccadilly, London. The office is easily accessible by public transport and car parking can be found locally in nearby Poland Street. It should be noted that the office is located within the Central London Congestion Charge zone.
Piccadilly is the nearest tube station, which is roughly a 5 minute walk away. Here you can reach London Heathrow Airport directly using the Piccadilly line or London Waterloo station using the Bakerloo line. The Piccadilly line also serves King’s Cross St. Pancras with international rail connections to mainland Europe. Oxford Circus tube station is also nearby, roughly an 8 minute walk, where the Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines are available.
There will be light refreshments provided.
To reserve your place to attend this free event please email info@thesla.org
Date: Tuesday 12th November
Time: 10.00 for 10.30 to 1.30
Venue: Chamberlain Room, Birmingham City Council, Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B1 1BB
How to find the venue:
Attendees should approach the Council House building via the front entrance middle set of doors – you can’t miss them as they have stone pillars around the doors. Enter the building, up the initial staircase to the security guard, who will point you to the room, which is on the first floor.
Official start time is 10am. If people arrive very early, there is a Starbucks next to the building.
Please download the
Council House Map and Directions here.
A very huge thanks to everyone who made this event a really interesting and worthwhile debate. A lot of hard work and planning went into getting this regional event organised and we hope to do more events like this in the future. We know that you, our members, really value regional events but we will need all your help in future to help us attract more delegates to regional sessions. Not least because it’s a shame when members miss out on such valuable and interesting learning and debate.
Special thanks to our hosts, Birmingham City Council for welcoming us to the beautiful Council Buildings and even organising the Christmas market to be set up right outside.
Thanks to our brilliant speakers who all spoke from the heart about very different subjects and approaches, but it was encouraging to see that there were also many similarities to the challenges faced.
We would also like to thank Bob Barr for standing in at very short notice to present on behalf of Blair Freebairn and Sarah Hitchcock of GeoLytix. Bob gave us his spin in Open Data, the innovations GeoLytics are using to bring you free open data for many, many fascinating data sets and how the future might look.
Finally thank you to those who attended. We were a little thin on the ground with far fewer than we normally expect to our events but it was a lovely cosy atmosphere with some good debates, questions and networking.
We are pleased to provide copies of all the event’s presentations here:
“Bob Barr of Manchest Geomatics presenting for Blair Freebairn and Sarah Hitchcock of GeoLytix”
This event received the BEST EVER feedback on the quality of speakers and relevance of subjects. 100% of attendees said the speakers were good or very good and every speaker got 100% score for their presentation. This is the best score we’ve ever had for any event.
As with every session we organise, there is always room for improvement on the event planning and the only regret is that so few managed to attend on the day. We really do want to run regional events for members but would like to see more attendees in the future. We also appreciate how much life and work get in the way, but those who attended on the 12th November had a real treat. Those who didn’t make it really missed out.
“A big thank you to all for hosting a really interesting event. I look forward to the next one.” Andy Brumwell, West Midlands Police
“This is the first SLA event I’ve ever attended and I found it very useful and look forward to attending more in the future.”
“I found it very interesting and the cosy feel really helps with the getting to speak to people. It would be good to attract more people and this does dissapoint a little but we must be mindful of the scale of change in the public sector at present. This will have had a big effect. Many thanks also to the presenters very interesting topics and we can all say we learned something new too. Also thanks to Susan who did a stirling job organising things here at the council.”
“Thanks for organising what was a good, if slightly sparsely attended, event. I thought the other speakers were great!” Bob Barr, Manchester Geomatics.
Chair: Steve Scholey, Hampshire County Council
Steve Scholey, Customer Intelligence, Hampshire County Council
Various case studies and examples. The intention is to focus on methodologies that others might wish to apply in their areas of work.
Zoe Wright, Analyst at Birmingham City Council
Using Birmingham City Council as an example, how the public sector can and does use sophisticated geodemographic (GDIS) tools and localised data to help profile citizens and local businesses, who does and doesn’t use Council services, and the most effective ways to communicate with users, residents and businesses.
Steve Scholey, Development, support and promotion of Customer Insight (CI) at Hampshire Customer Insight Partnership 
Within the public sector, Steve has contributed to DCLG-led projects on provision of customer-facing and waste collection services and to Hampshire projects on usage of libraries, cultural and recreation services, smoking cessation, demand for early years and special educational needs places and assessments of troubled families, children in need and school catchments.
Zoe Wright, Analyst at Birmingham City Council
Zoë Wright is an analyst for Birmingham City Council’s Customer Knowledge team, a centralised Customer Insight function.
Her background is in local government, starting in policy support, and now providing geodemographic and data analysis.
She has experience of working on customer segmentation, location profiles, and business data.
She graduated with a MA psychology degree from a Scottish university and moved to Birmingham for work a few years later, and has been here ever since.
Andy Brumwell, Geo-Spatial Intelligence Analyst at West Midlands Police
Andy Brumwell is geo-spatial intelligence analyst at West Midlands Police, UK’s second largest Police Force covering a population of approximately 2.7 million residents. He has responsibility for supporting the Force in the analysis of spatial data for strategic and tactical purposes.
He is responsible for supporting and training analysts and Police officers in the use of crime mapping and geo-spatial intelligence analysis techniques. He is also very interested in the use of multi-agency partnership data.
Andy is vice-chair of the International Crime and Intelligence Analysis Conference steering group. He has contributed to a number of crime mapping and analysis publications including the POP Centre Guide “Crime Analysis for Problem Solvers – 60 Steps” and the UK NPIA guide for crime analysts “Analysis of Geographic Information – Workbook”
He has a BSc (Hons) Geography Degree (Uni of Birmingham, UK) and a Post-graduate Certificate in Crime Prevention and Community Safety at the Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science, University College London (UCL), UK. He is an accredited geographic profiling analyst.
To reserve your place to attend this free event please email info@thesla.org
Venue: CBRE Henrietta House, 8 Henrietta Place, London W1G 0NB
Nearest tube: Bond Street
Date: Friday 18th October 2013
Time: 9.30 for 10.00; close at 4.30 pm
Don’t miss your chance to attend this year’s SLA Forum; we have five excellent speakers lined up to give you an in-depth update on open data and mapping for the site location and planning industry.
It’s free to attend.
To book your place please email info@thesla.org.
Download ‘GeoEnabling Retail and Property’ by Steven Eglinton, Director for EMEA at GeoEnable, from Slideshare by clicking on the image below:
Download MapInfo update, roadmap and social media by Jon Flitton and Tom Probert, Pitney Bowes Software.
Download Is authoritative data worth the price? by Robert Barr.
Download A Brave New World – the impact of Location analytics, Big data and multi-channel on the retail market by Graham Wallace, Senior Business Strategist, ESRI.
Download Smart Cities – Location, The Citizen and Systems by Andy Hudson-Smith, Director and Reader in Digital Urban Systems, CASA.
By Steven Eglinton, Director, The Association for Geographic Information (AGI) and Director for EMEA, GeoEnable.
In this presentation I will examine how Location Analytics, as a technology solution and a term, is very rapidly becoming a mainstream concept in IT and GIS.
With examples, what one thought of as specialised tools, such as GIS, are now being ‘democratised’ and embedded in easy-to-use business processes and workflows.
With examples of how this could benefit the property and retail sector, I will examine the main and most important trends in, ‘Geospatial’ and Location Analytics that affect anyone involved in spatial analysis or GIS. These trends really are ‘game changers’ compared with the last 35 years of GIS and Location Technologies and need to be understood to leverage the potential benefits.
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By Graham Wallace, Senior Business Strategist, ESRI
The expansion of BI into BI + GIS = Location Analytics and look at some of the Gartner and analyst thoughts and recommendations about the future role of Location Analytics in the retail and Distribution sector.
Here I have in mind an assessment of how existing investment in BI systems can be enhanced by integrating these with GIS – and providing some examples of how this adds value in the Store / site selection process as well as improving data visualization and enhancing the capex management process. I will focus on opportunities to deliver sales and profit improvements with minimal investment
The potential impact of Cloud computing and Big Data
Here the main topics covered will be access to external data sources and trends in data access and data costs. This includes social media feeds and crowd- sourced data as well as an assessment of the quality of these feeds and whether they help or hinder the internal decision making process
What the rise of multi-channel retailing means in terms of capex management and data management
Here the main topic that retailers seem to be grappling with is how to create a standardized environment which integrates feeds from multiple channels and presents as single view of a customer as well as deciding how to allocate capital and investment resource to develop new routes to market. This is tied together by looking at the value of Location Analytics.
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Andrew Hudson-Smith, Director and Reader in Digital Urban Systems, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
University College London
The talk looks at the rise of the Internet of Things and its implications for pulling together BIM, Geographical Information Systems and Augmented Reality as a move towards Smart Buildings and Smart Cities.
Tom Probert, EMEA Product Marketing Manager
Dr Jonathan Flitton, Senior Analytics & Data Consultant
Some aspects of Social Media data in Site location Analysis – can foursquare check-ins and Instagram locations help retailers?
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By Dr Robert Barr, OBE
In the UK we have some of the most expensive address data in the world (possibly the best, but far from perfect) originally collected by the public sector. However recent changes have resulted in a number of poorly regulated for-profit entities preparing themselves to increase their profits from it. This is likely to lead to a reaction by the big data, web science and volunteered geographic information communities who will probably challenge these monopolies by identifying, collecting, quality assuring and exposing address data in the public domain if this comes to pass.
The questions for government are whether this continuing address war is in the public interest; does the protection of a poorly regulated for profit monopoly / duopoly serve UK plc best or should we follow an increasing number of countries in releasing a maintained national address base as open data?
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Graham Wallace, Senior Business Strategist, Esri UK Ltd.
Graham Wallace is Esri UK’s senior strategist with over 30 years Business Planning and Programme Management experience gained in the IT, financial services, telecom & retail sectors.
Working at Board level for a number of FTSE 100 companies much of this work has been focused on strategy, business transformation and M&A activity.
Graham read Geography at Cambridge University.
He is also Director of the AGI (Association for Geographical Information).
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Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith FRSA, Director and Reader in Digital Urban Systems, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith is Director and Deputy Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at The Bartlett, University College London. Andy is a Reader in Digital Urban Systems and Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet Journal, he is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Greater London Authority Smart London Board and Course Founder of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation at University College London. He is also course founder of the new 2014 course MSc in Smart Cities and Urban Analytics .
Twitter @digitalurban web http://www.digitalurban.org
Dr Jon Flitton, Senior Analytics & Data Consultant, Pitney Bowes Software
Dr Jon Flitton is a Senior Analytics & Data Consultant within the UK Analytics team of Pitney Bowes Software. Having studied the spreading of Nuclear material for his PhD and then research into underwater mine detection and tank camouflage Jon joined a small boutique Retail Analytics company called NumberCraft (run by identical twins Simon and Peter Grindrod (OBE) and David Waters). Jon then joined GeoBusiness on the day it was bought by MapInfo which itself is now part of Pitney Bowes Software.
Jon spends his days solving client problems and playing with lots of data across Europe. These include Retail Sales models, product mix, market segmentation, optimal networks, Open Data, Social Media Data, bus route optimisation and optimally sized postcodes for postcode lotteries.
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Tom Probert, EMEA Product Marketing Manager for Pitney Bowes Software
Tom Probert is the EMEA Product Marketing Manager for Pitney Bowes Software.
He is an ex-pat American, and though with 12 years of experience living in the UK still sounds like a Yankee.
His responsibilities include presenting at MapInfo User events, meeting with customers to understand how we should improve our software and he is the editor for “The MapInfo Professional” monthly journal.
Dr Robert Barr, OBE
Bob Barr retired from the University of Manchester after a 30 year career of lecturing, research and consultancy on Geographical Information Systems. His laboratory was spun out as a company, Manchester Geomatics, of which he is now Chairman. He was a Harkness Fellow and studied the use of geographic information for the delivery of social services in the United States; he was also a member of the Cabinet Office Social Exclusion Unit’s policy action team which reported on “Better Information”.
He is a Visiting Professor at Liverpool University and Honorary Fellow at Manchester University. Bob is also a Borough Councillor and on Warrington Borough Council and an independent director of Helena Partnerships, the stock transfer Housing Association for St Helens.
He is currently an active campaigner for the release of Public Sector Information as Open Data and is a member of the Cabinet Office Open Data User Group and of the Ministry of Justice / The National Archives Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information. Bob was made an OBE, for “services to geography” in the 2008 New Year Honours list.
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Steven Eglinton BSc, MBCS, IoD
Council Member, Director, AGI (The UK’s Geospatial Industry Body)
Director, GeoEnable
Steven is a thought leader in the innovative use of Geospatial Solutions, GIS and Location Analysis for Environmental Conservation, Asset Management, Construction and community empowerment. Having been the GIS Coordinator at Iracambi in 2004-2005, he remains involved with a strategic role providing advice to continually develop the mapping, surveying and GIS capabilities at Iracambi.
Following studies in Environmental Biology in the UK, Steven has worked his way from hands-on to strategic GIS roles, in the development, implementation and integration of geospatial and information-centric solutions. Including applying his skills to the UK government (7 years), London Underground, Asset Management and in the construction industry with King’s Cross.
He now understands that true ‘holistic’ solutions require more that ‘tech’ alone, but require innovative thinking; outcome-based management, end-user engagement, senior management backing and (crucially) strong leadership. With this in mind Steven is very active in shaping the Geospatial Industry as Founder and Director of geospatial and information management (IM) solutions company, GeoEnable, and as a Director and Council Member The UK’s Geospatial Membership Body – The AGI.
Steven’s Memberships and affiliations include:
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To register for this free to attend event please email info@thesla.org.
Welcome to the August 2013 SLA Newsletter. We have had a very successful series of events so far this year in June and July so if you haven’t yet managed to attend there is still a packed programme to choose from:
Read moreVenue: The New Cooperative Group HQ, The Auditorium, 1 Angel Square, Manchester, M60 0AF
Download: Manchester Campus Visitor Guide
Date: Tuesday, 3rd September 2013
Time: 6.00 for 6.30pm
Refreshments will be provided.
Thanks to everyone for attending this event. With over 45 attending and 50 booked it was yet another successful SLA event with some really thought provoking presentations and interesting debates, not to mention excellent catering from The Cooperative Group. Special thanks to our excellent speakers and The Coop for hosting.
Download “What does convenience mean?” (659 KB) by Blair Freebairn.
Download em>”Market factors & business opportunities in international convenience retailing” (2,581 KB) by Dr Jonathan Reynolds.
Download “The evolving convenience market: a retailers perspective” (1,564 KB) by Mark Harlow.
Our next event it taking place at The Cooperative Group’s new headquarters in Manchester on Tuesday 3rd September.
Registration will be from 6pm and the presentations will begin at 6.30pm.
We have an excellent line-up for this event. Joining Mark Harlow, Senior Location Analysis Manager from The Cooperative Group will be Blair Freebairn, Founder and Principle of GeoLytix and Dr Jonathan Reynolds, Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management. Blair will be sharing his thoughts on what convenience means to different customers in a multi-channel, multi-format world and Jonathan will be talking about the market factors and business opportunities in international convenience retailing.
The Co-operative Group will be sharing their experiences in the convenience market, looking at how the convenience market has evolved from a retailers perspective and what challenges remain.
Dr Jonathan Reynolds, Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School
Jonathan Reynolds is Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School.
A geographer and planner by background, he now works with students of marketing and retailing of all ages and leads applied research projects on the sector internationally.
He is the current director of the longstanding Oxford Retail Location Analysis workshop.
Blair Freebairn, Founder and Principal Geolytix
o Founded Geolytix 2011 to present
o Global head of analytical data and routing at PB MapInfo – 2011
o Manager of the MapInfo UK predictive analytics (PA) business 2009-2011
o Principal architect and methodologist for EMEA PA 2005-2009
o Modeller working in UK retail 2001-2005
o Head of Site Research at UK largest leisure retailer 1997-2001
o Operational management for leisure retailer 1991-1997
o Over the last ten years have served the site research teams at the majority of the top 25 UK retailers
About GeoLytix
o Founded by Blair Freebairn in 2011 to deliver vendor neutral spatial analytical consulting, development and deployment services
o Sarah Hitchcock joined in Oct 2012 from managing the Network Planning team at J Sainsbury’s bringing additional business consulting, project management and training skills
o Recent projects have included bespoke store forecasting models, training, custom data development, system development and consulting projects
o Can be found via www.geolytix.co.uk or by email to blair.freebairn@geolytix.co.uk
Mark Harlow, Senior Location Analysis Manager, The Co-Operative
Mark has a strong retail background stemming from a number of store management roles at Tesco. He has worked as an Area Manager on the Express format and prior to that managed stores within the Extra hypermarket format.
He has also recently completed his MBA in Retail at Stirling University.
Having initially worked as a Regional Location Analyst, Mark now leads the North team of analysts assessing and delivering on new food retail opportunities for the Co-Operative Group.
Venue: CBRE, St Martin Court, 10 Paternoster Row, London EC4M 7HP
Nearest tube: St Pauls
Date: 16th July 2013,
Time: 6.00 for 6.30 pm
How to get there
The nearest underground station to CBRE’s offices at 10 St Martins Court is St Paul’s on the Central Line. Take exit 1 out of the tube station and turn left onto Newgate Street. St Martins Court is the second entrance on the left.
Alternatively, if you are coming from Bank underground station on the Northern Line, take exit 1 out of the tube station and head down Poultry, which continues into Cheapside. At the end of Cheapside is a staggered junction and the sign for St Paul’s tube station is visible on the other side of the road. Cross the road, towards the tube station, and walk past the tube entrance onto Newgate Street. St Martins Court is the second entrance on the left.
Refreshments will be provided.
Are the days of building new grocery hypermarkets finally over? If so, how might formats evolve in future? Our three speakers will give their views on the likely way forward for the UK grocery market.
Steve Jones, Unilever – “Staying ahead of the convenience shopper”
Hamish Macmillan, CBRE – Evolving store formats
Andy began his career in GIS and Location Planning at Laser Scan and then Small World Systems some twenty years ago. He then moved to Rank Group as Market Intelligence Manager, where he met future business partners Jon Walker and Steve Halsall.
His next venture was to set up his own business, GeoBusiness Solutions, alongside his two former work colleagues, Jon and Steve. GeoBusiness Solutions was an independent location analysis company which grew in success with many customers across retail, property and leisure using their consultancy and modelling skills until its takeover by MapInfo, now Pitney Bowes Business Insight.
Andy enjoyed being his own boss and running his own business so he then set another new company, The Wendover Group for three years before moving on to a completely new venture at Anytime Fitness, where as MD Andy helped to establish this successful brand, with over 2,200 clubs across 14 countries, including US, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Anytime Fitness now has 15 clubs open in the UK with plans to double this by the end of 2013.
He is currently working at Sainsbury’s heading up their Network Planning and Property Insight team.
Steve began his working live in GIS and Research at Jones Lang LaSalle where he stayed for 3 years before moving on Tesco where he worked in location planning, corporate marketing, international and Tesco Express for 10 years. Then after a brief spell as a Retail Consultant at CBRE he joined Unilver where he is Senior Format Manager.
Steve will be talking about how the C-sector has been through a period of great change in the last 20 years, and continues to be one of the most dynamic and fastest growing grocery channels. So what’s next? What will shoppers want from their local stores in the future? And how will retailers develop their store propositions to stay ahead of the game and grow sales?
Hamish Macmillan is Retail Supermarket Agency & Development in CB Richard Ellis Retail Division and works in the Supermarket Group within the Division.
Hamish is an associate director within CBRE’s retail supermarket agency and supermarket team. Having acted for many major developers on in town retail led schemes for parties such as Hammerson, Land Securities, Lendlease to name a few, he now concentrates on developer led clients initiating supermarket led schemes throughout the UK.
Dr Jonathan Reynolds, Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School
Jonathan Reynolds is Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School.
A geographer and planner by background, he now works with students of marketing and retailing of all ages and leads applied research projects on the sector internationally.
He is the current director of the longstanding Oxford Retail Location Analysis workshop (which next runs between 8-10 April, 2013).
To reserve your place please email info@thesla.org
Venue: CBRE Henrietta House W1
Date: 18th June 2013
Time: 3.30 for 4.00 ’til 8.30 pm (jointly with SPR)
Speakers include:
Thanks to everyone for making this event such a huge success, especially our excellent speakers and the SPR for co-hosting. Over 90 delegates attended to find out more about the future of West End shopping and impact of Crossrail.
Download Ian Lindsay’s presentation, “Crossrail – driving London development”
Download Richard Dickinson’s presentation Crossrail – Capital Management
David Shaw did not use any slides
Download Will Bax’s presentation, “Mayfair and environs: the wider impact of Crossrail”
Crossrail is the largest civil engineering project in Europe. First phase Crossrail completion is scheduled for 2018, barely one rent review away. The scheme is unique: it is the first time that a main-line rail network on this scale has been routed through a mature international city centre the size of of Central London. The ease and quality of Central London access will be irrevocably altered. Crossrail, as a result, is poised to trigger the largest wave of central city shops renewal seen in the UK for a generation.
West End pedestrian flows will change; pitches will change too. Some tertiary property will become secondary and some secondary, prime. Development and stock renewal activity will gradually ripple out of the West End’s main retail drags, repositioning shopping in peripheral areas both north and south of Oxford Street. Associated development activity has already begun. Many of the best sites (and best occupier opportunities) have already been snapped up, but there is a great deal still to play for.
The speakers at this important SLA/SPR seminar will focus on the likely initial retail impacts of this giant transport project; the opportunity areas and how they see development activity and stock renewal evolving due to Crossrail.
The seminar in arranged in two parts. The first part addresses the project itself together with the New West End Company plans for exploiting the Crossral opportunity for the benefit of retailers and shoppers. The second half focuses on the retail property market implications from the perspective of the West End’s two largest landed-estates: The Crown Estate and Grosvenor, both leading players in London’s West End property market.
3.30pm registration and coffee (CBRE, Henrietta House)
4.00-4.10 Jonathan Reynolds (Chair), Said Business School, University of Oxford
4.10- 4.40 CROSSRAIL – THE PROJECT
Ian Lindsay, Land and Property Director, Crossrail
Crossrail is a £14.8bn project. The Crossrail route will pass through 37 stations and run 118 km (73 miles) from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west, through new twin-bore 21 km (13 miles) tunnels to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.When Crossrail opens it will increase London’s rail-based transport network capacity by 10%, supporting regeneration and cutting journey times across the city. Crossrail is being delivered by Crossrail Limited (CRL). CRL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London. Crossrail is jointly sponsored by the Department for Transport and Transport for London. Ian’s paper will address progress on the project as well as address the pivotal associated station developments at Tottenham Court Road and Bond Street.
4.40-5.00 CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Richard Dickinson, CEO, New West End Company (NWEC)
The New West End Company is the guardian of London’s West End shopping streets. Richard outlines NWEC plans for dealing with the influx of additional shoppers that Crossrail will bring to London’s burgeoning central shopping area.
5.00-5.20 Coffee Break
5.20-5.40 EAST AND WEST FROM REGENT STREET
David Shaw, Head of Regent Street Portfolio, Crown Estate
Mix change managed by Crown Estate has propelled Regent Street from secondary backwater to the West End’s premier upscale shopping pitch in little over a decade. Development activity is now consolidating Regent Street’s position as one of the most sought after flagship retail locations in London. David looks at the stock renewal set to flow from Crossrail in areas east and west of Regent Street and how he sees it affecting the West End in the future.
5.40-6.00 MAYFAIR AND ENVIRONS: THE WIDER IMPACT OF CROSSRAIL
Will Bax, Grosvenor
Mayfair is the luxury heart of the West End, containing the capital’s most exclusive shops, hotels, restaurants and clubs. Grosvenor is synonymous with Mayfair, both London’s largest landed-estate and the leading player in the West End’s luxury shop property markets. The new Crossrail station entrances serving Mayfair will be in Hanover Square, adjacent to Regent Street, and in Davies Street close to the existing Bond Street tube station. New office development is occurring above both new station entrances. Major area/stock renewal is planned for Hanover square and New Bond Street. Will explores the ripple effect of luxury shop demand as upscale retailers seek space in the period Mayfair shopping stock and how Crossrail will boost shopper flows south of the new stations, strengthening existing pitches.
6.00-6.30 Q&A (Stewart Colderick moderating)
6.30-8.00 Drinks/ networking.
Ian Linsay, Land & Property Director, Crossrail
As Crossrail’s Land & Property Director Ian is responsible for acquiring all the land and rights necessary to build the Europe’s largest infrastructure project, creating commercial value from over station developments to help fund the project, designing public realm improvements that will improve the setting of Crossrail stations, as well as safeguarding the existing line of route potential to deliver extensions to Crossrail/Crossrail 2.
Ian is a Chartered Surveyor and urban regeneration specialist with a background in delivering mixed-use property development solutions in the public and commercial sectors. Prior to joining Crossrail Ian spent five years at Network Rail taking forward the re-development of the main London and regional stations in partnership with developers – e.g. Cannon Street, the Shard at London Bridge and the re-development of Birmingham New Street station.
Ian also helped establish Solum Regeneration Ltd – Network Rail’s station development joint venture with Kier Property, acting as a Board Director.
Will Bax, Director – London Portfolio , Grosvenor Britain & Ireland.
Will Bax MRICS, is responsible for the delivery of portfolio strategy and financial performance across Grosvenor’s London portfolio. Prior to taking up his current role Will was responsible for running all of Grosvenor’s investments in Mayfair, for which he continues to have a strategic overview as part of his wider role. He is extremely well versed on the Mayfair retailing environment and will be discussing his thoughts on the Crossrail effect.
Prior to this he worked for Grosvenor’s Fund Management business in Paris, where he was responsible for asset and portfolio strategy across the European funds before returning to London in 2011.
Will sits on the New West End Companies Operations Board, is a member of the interim steering group for the Mayfair Neighbourhood Forum and is involved in various other industry bodies.
Dr Jonathan Reynolds, Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School
Jonathan Reynolds is Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School.
A geographer and planner by background, he now works with students of marketing and retailing of all ages and leads applied research projects on the sector internationally.
He is the current director of the longstanding Oxford Retail Location Analysis workshop, which last ran between 8-10 April, 2013.
Steward Colderick, Exectutive Director at CBRE
To reserve your place please email info@thesla.org
Date: Tuesday 6th November
Venue: CBRE, Henrietta House, Henrietta Place, London W1G 0NB
Nearest tube: Bond Street
Time: 6.30pm – 8pm (Registration at 6pm)
We’re excited to announce the first collaborative meeting between the Society for Location Analysis (SLA) and the Society for Property Researchers (SPR) which examines the changing high street and its prospects going forward.
Many High Streets look to be on their last legs. Vacancy rates have proliferated. Stock obsolescence problems seem to become more pronounced by the day. Administrations show no signs of easing. Mainstream investors continue their retreat from High Street shopping. Multiple retrenchment into larger towns has turned from a trickle into a flood. And expiry clusters appear to threaten secondary shopping everywhere. So where is all this going?
Are things really as bad as they look or is something entirely different actually happening on the UK’s embattled High Streets? Are we actually seeing the beginning of a renaissance as obsolete shopping is finally forced into other uses? With little in the way of speculative development activity, is the investment focus poised to switch back to prime High Street? Leading retail market commentator Jonathan Reynolds of OXIRM is joined by Richard Gwilliam of Prupim, Gregor Durston of SpaceNK and Roger Wade of BOXPARK to discuss the high street problem.
Chair – Neil Blake, Head of UK & EMEA Research, CBRE
Jonathan Reynolds, Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management, OXIRM
Richard Gwilliam, Head of Property Research, PRUPIM
Gregor Durston, SpaceNK
Roger Wade, CEO & Founder BOXPARK
Download Jonathan Reynold’s presentation Prospects for the High Street
Download Richard Gwilliam’s presentation “High Street Retail – Where Next?”
Download Gregor Durston’s presentation “The High Street: The heart of every community?”
Download Roger Wade’s presentation “The Future of Retail: Multichannel Store”
Gregor Durston, SpaceNK
Gregor will begin with a focus on the biggest challenge to the high street. He will then provide a definition of the high street and present some additional thoughts on customer depletion. He will touch on forthcoming lease expiry’s and the impact this will have as well as retailer withdrawal reasons e.g. saturation, market turmoil, internet shopping etc. Gregor will share insights into Space NK’s high street and also his views on multi-channel retailing, site selection and working the high street.
Dr Neil Blake, Head of UK and EMEA Research, CBRE
Dr Neil Blake is Head of UK and EMEA Research for CBRE. Prior to joining CBRE in mid-2012 Neil has held positions of Director of Economic Analysis at Oxford Economics and Director of Economics and Forecasting at Experian Business Strategies. He has also worked for Wharton Econometrics (Global Insight) and the University of East Anglia. He holds degrees from the Universities of York and Warwick.
Neil has extensive knowledge of economic modelling and forecasting and has worked on numerous retail and property-related projects. These include modelling international property returns for a leading agent, work for the Barker Review on the economic effects of restrictions on housing supply, the RICS City Office Model, “How Much Space?” and “Retail Voids” for the BCSC, “The Future of Retail” for the BRC and the IPF Research Foundation’s project on “Property and Inflation”, contributing to the development of an investment strategy for a major Dutch property investor as well as modelling, forecasting and scenario analysis of the demand for commercial and residential space in Abu Dhabi.
Neil is a member of the SPR and is a frequent speaker at SPR, IPF and IPD events.
Dr Jonathan Reynolds, Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School
Jonathan Reynolds is Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School.
A geographer and planner by background, he now works with students of marketing and retailing of all ages and leads applied research projects on the sector internationally.
He is the current director of the longstanding Oxford Retail Location Analysis workshop (which next runs between 8-10 April, 2013).
Richard Gwilliam, Head of Property Research, PRUPIM
Richard is Head of Property Research at PRUPIM.
He is responsible for the overall direction of property research within PRUPIM, including the analysis of the UK and global property markets, the formation of in-house views, and determination of strategy for PRUPIM’s funds, as well as bespoke in-depth research projects.
Richard has a decade of analysis and research experience within property investment; before joining PRUPIM in 2006, he spent three years at IPD.
Roger Wade, CEO & Founder BOXPARK
Roger Wade is the Founder and ex owner of the Original British Street Fashion brand, Boxfresh. After spending a few years in Advertising after graduating from University, Roger started Boxfresh in 1989. He grew the brand from a market stall, to an International Brand selling in over 12 different countries. Boxfresh were reknowned pioneers of the British Street scene, and were the first to import labels like Carhartt, G-Star and Penfield into the UK. in 2005, Roger sold the Boxfresh to Pentland Brands and formed his own Brand Consultancy, Brands Incorporated, specialising in the development, financing and licensing of UK Fashion Brands. In 2010, Roger founded and created the World’s first Pop Up Mall, Boxpark Shoreditch. BOXPARK is constructed of stripped, and refitted shipping containers, to create unique, low cost, low risk, ‘box shops’. Filled with a unique mix of international fashion and lifestyle brands, galleries and cafés, it’s the world’s first ‘pop-up’ mall – so named because its basic building blocks are inherently movable: they can, and will, pop up anywhere in the world!
Roger is a regular columnist for Drapers, a guest speaker at Manchester and London fashion network, an Associate Lecturer at London College of Fashion, and is a member of the Cool Brands Council.
Registration: To book your place on this event, please email info@thesla.org