Warrington is an example of a city whose economic strengths lie in its suburbs, which are home to many high-skilled firms. The city was chosen by the government to house the civilian nuclear...

Oxford’s Westgate Centre opened 800,000 square foot of retail, food and drink space in 2017, having been in development since 2010. The city was identified as having a weak retail offer for a...

The University of Liverpool owns 93 acres freehold, amounting to 130 buildings, in the centre of Liverpool. In addition, they own the veterinary school on the Wirral, botanical gardens and the...

The Media Centre in Huddersfield was set up 23 years ago to stimulate knowledge-intensive creative and digital industries in the city. The initial office building was fully occupied straight away,...

Bradford is one example of where an intervention was needed to provide quality office space. But rather than the city council stepping in, it was Business & Enterprise Finance, a subsidiary of...

London is experiencing particularly intense competition for space. The city is growing fast: the number of jobs increased by 22 per cent (the third highest city growth rate) between 2010 and 2016...

Slough is experiencing strong competition for space. It has the fifth highest residential property prices of all cities in England and Wales (£4,103 per m2 at sale price) and the sixth highest...

How land is allocated within Manchester is an increasingly political topic. Concerns are being raised about the pace of change, for example in the Northern Quarter, and policymakers are having to...

Crawley faces very strong residential demand for two principal reasons. The first is its proximity to London – almost 10 per cent of Crawley’s population commute every day to work in the...