Retail and Town Centres

Retail OverviewThe retail sector has seen unprecedented change over the last few years. Recession, internet and mobile e-tailing have changed the landscape of town centres and the way consumers use them.

The rise of internet sales, the polarisation of retail representation, the growth in leisure and convenience/discount stores, coupled with a severe recession, has meant that many retailers need fewer outlets, often in larger formats in the larger centres and

parks; and that in-centre development has slowed. Too many UK town centres are consequently struggling to adapt. Meanwhile, expanding retailers have sought representation where they can find deliverable opportunities, be that in-centre or beyond.

Our unique blend of planning, property, transport, economic, design and engineering skills gives our market-leading clients a distinct competitive advantage.

We advise our private and public sector clients on high-profile town centre and retail schemes in the UK and Europe on both town centre and out-of-centre sites. Our capability includes:

• Planning applications and appeals

• Retail impact assessments

• Transport assessments

• Environmental impact assessments

• Pre-planning, placemaking, viability and technical services.

Scheme Development

On behalf of Next Plc, PBA secured planning permission for one of the first Next purpose-built stores, including its new Home and Garden format on an out-of-centre car park in High Wycombe.

Now onsite, the development includes some 7,165 sq m of Class A1 retail floorspace alongside 160 parking spaces, ancillary coffee shop, service yard, landscaping, a new vehicle access and three new pedestrian accesses. When complete, the store will comprise a main two-storey building as well as a conservatory and garden centre, providing a sales area of 4,600 sq m with 59 per cent given over to ‘bulky goods’ and the remainder allocated for the sale of Next’s clothes and fashion lines.

PBA coordinated the professional team and submitted the necessary planning

application for the development, including providing a detailed retail and planning statement used to support the principle of the site’s development, which proved robust in defending the application from a potential judicial review.

The development was also subject to a Section 106 agreement and separate Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) payment totaling in excess of £2 million, with PBA leading discussions and negotiations with the local planning authority. Now in the post-application phase, PBA continues to lead ongoing negotiations with the council.

The application required close working with Wycombe District Council as the site was in use as a park & ride facility serving the town centre, with dedicated bus services running six days a week.

Next Home and Garden, High WycombeClient: Next Plc

220 7,261 £1.34m

Community Infrastructure Levy

Floor Space (sq m)

New Jobs Flagship Store

Acting for Optimisation Developments Limited, Wm Morrisons’s development arm, PBA secured planning permission for the Innox Riverside development in Trowbridge town centre.

The development includes some 15,000 sq m of floorspace on a contaminated former pork factory site adjacent to the River Biss and the railway station. The scheme includes the refurbishment and reuse of existing listed buildings and heritage assets for A3 restaurant uses, a new eight-screen Cineworld cinema and a 7,000 sq m Morrisons supermarket.

We coordinated the professional team and submitted the necessary planning applications for the development, including providing a detailed retail, economic and planning statements used to support the principle of the site’s development. PBA also led the ongoing negotiations with the local planning authority.

Initially, elements of the scheme were resisted due to the presence of a cinema in the development as well as a competing scheme elsewhere in the town. After securing permission for the development without a cinema in April 2013, PBA obtained consent for the full scheme to include a cinema at appeal in January 2014 to enable Cineworld to trade from the development following a public inquiry. The Inspector agreed with our arguments on the identical sequential status of the appeal site and competing scheme and therefore granted permission just three weeks after the close of the Inquiry.

Project highlights:

• Coordinating a large multi-disciplinary team to submit a planning application within four months of being commissioned

• Successfully appealing against the refusal of the cinema element of the scheme.

Innox Riverside, Trowbridge Wiltshire Client: Optimisation Developments Limited

A flagship scheme to develop the eastern side of Leeds has been kick-started, following the successful revision of a dated planning permission.

The original scheme promised to deliver employment, development and a new link road in a deprived area of Leeds. The broad quantum of office/business floorspace, which was granted in 1995 and increased to c.1.8 m sq ft of floorspace in 2004, became unviable when it stalled in the economic downturn. In addition, the delay significantly impacted the local community by frustrating plans for a new link road.

The project team worked out that the original scheme was not viable due to its inability to meet modern business users’ expectations. We worked with the council and local community to assemble a new mix of land uses to bring the development through to delivery. Now, new proposals granted planning permission in March 2014 are set to introduce a balance of land uses, encompassing retail and leisure within the business park following extensive engagement with all stakeholders. The plans create greater potential to attract new

office/business occupiers by meeting their demands for greater convenience in terms of the range of supporting services and facilities which sit alongside their working environments.

The kick-started development will facilitate the Manston Lane Link Road (MLLR), a critically-important piece of highway infrastructure. As well as relieving present congestion, the MLLR will become part of the East Leeds Orbital Route (ELOR) which will open up the East Leeds Extension, where 6,000 dwellings and other land uses are planned.

Our concern was that the development might meet objections if it was perceived to jeopardise investment elsewhere in the city. However, our work clearly demonstrated to the council that the many benefits associated with the scheme substantially outweigh any limited adverse effects. The scheme will build on the existing success of Thorpe Park to create a prestigious business park in an exemplar environmental setting that will rival the best in the UK and elsewhere in Europe to attract prestigious tenants to Leeds.

Thorpe Park, LeedsClient: Scarborough Group

Our planning and public consultation advice helped achieve a new Waitrose store and contributed to a vibrant town centre in Warminster.

Dents, the glovemakers, wanted to relocate from its town centre site to a new, purpose-built factory. At the same time, Henry Boot Developments was looking to acquire a site in the town.

We advised Henry Boot Developments on acquiring the Dents site for a supermarket so that Dents could move. We also advised on acquiring additional town centre sites in order to achieve a developable site for the supermarket. We then managed the planning application process for both Dents’ new factory unit on the edge of town and

the town centre retail store. This included preparing a retail planning assessment, an employment land study and a planning statement.

Vital to the project’s success was effective public consultation. We managed the process and, through close liaison with the town council, achieved public support, despite a recommendation for refusal from planning officers. The extent of the public support resulted in a unanimous vote for the application at the committee.

The town centre sites in Warminster were redeveloped into a new 23,000 sq ft Waitrose store, which opened in March 2012, creating 124 new jobs.

Waitrose, WarminsterClient: Henry Boot Developments

We acted as retail consultants on this major redevelopment scheme, comprising the following key elements:

• Mixed-use development comprising offices, residential, retail, leisure/community uses located within eight new buildings and basement

• Up to 798 homes including affordable housing

• 76,043 sq m of office floorspace including a new headquarters building for Shell

• Up to 5,957 sq m of retail floorspace

• Up to 2,557 sq m of community/leisure floorspace

• Provision of new public realm and landscaping within the development, including: new public square incorporating water feature; additional tree planting; new pedestrian through routes, including additional routes between York Road and Belvedere Road

• Creation of a shared surface treatment on Belvedere Road, improvements to Chicheley Street including new landscaping and street widening, new crossings provided on York Road; and modifications and incorporation of London Underground ticket hall into one of the proposed buildings.

Shell Centre, London WaterlooClient: Canary Wharf Group

Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen

Strategic Planning We provide both private and public sector clients with early strategic guidance on planning for town centres and retail developments. Our capability includes:

• Retail capacity

• Site assessments

• Planning policy

• Masterplanning

• Transport

• Viability appraisals

On behalf of local authorities, we undertake retail and leisure capacity studies, provide evidence to support local plan policies and other public sector intervention and provide advice on planning applications for new retail and leisure developments.

On behalf of the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Ealing and Hammersmith & Fulham, we worked on the West London Retail Study Update, including preparing the key quantitative capacity and impact outputs. The study was underpinned by a telephone survey of 3,000 households and took into account the change in the West London retail hierarchy following the opening of Westfield at Shepherd’s Bush in October

2008. On the back of this work, we have advised LBHF on the recently-approved extension to Westfield in Shepherd’s Bush and Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and the Greater London Authority on the retail elements of the proposed redevelopment of Earl’s Court – including advising on the supplementary planning document and the application submitted by CapCo.

West London Local Authorities

Evidence-Based Capacity Studies, Countrywide

Photo: Panhard

We undertook the Thurrock Borough-wide retail study, published in 2007, and subsequently we advised the council in respect of the East of England Plan Single Issue Review on the Lakeside Basin. We advised on the policy implications of the eventual town centre designation and have also provided general policy advice to the council. In 2013, we were commissioned to

provide a new Sub Regional Retail Study for Lakeside, which was finalised in late 2013. This assesses the need for new floor space across the sub-region and the scale of retail floor space that could be accommodated in Lakeside as the area’s Regional Town Centre.

Lakeside, Thurrock Client: Thurrock Council

245 133,200 13,000

Parking Spaces

Floor Space (sq m)

Stores and Services

Largest Shopping Centre in Britain

10th

Birmingham has changed beyond recognition in the last 20 years, with a revived economy and a much expanded city centre. The Big City Plan, launched in 2010, sets the framework for the continuing transformation of the city centre, while the Birmingham Development Plan provides the wider strategy for the city.

As part of a team, led by Urban Initiatives, we provided the economic evidence to inform the Big City Plan, the largest ever plan of its kind in Europe. We examined the economic sectors that would drive Birmingham’s growth, spark off ideas and provide a seedbed for innovation and growing prosperity across the region. Our work helped shape planning strategy to create the best possible conditions for these industries and use the city’s assets to generate more private sector investment.

We also contributed through the preparation of the Vision for Movement in 2010 on behalf of the Birmingham City Council, Centro and the Business Improvement Districts, in association with National Express. The Vision for Movement was a collaborative exercise between public and private sectors, which provided guiding principles and practical transport proposals to underpin the Big City Plan. Key factors included proposals to enhance public transport connectivity in the city centre, to make best use of available highway capacity and to deliver an outstanding pedestrian environment.

These proposals were designed to create connections between transport hubs, commercial, retail, learning and living quarters, and to deliver world class public

realm - thereby providing capacity for regeneration and growth, an improved quality of life and an environment which would be attractive to investors. Subsequent work, including Making the Connections (2012) and Unlocking the Potential (2014) have built on this work, and have contributed to a shared understanding of transport objectives for the City Centre, the development of the Birmingham Mobility Action Plan, and to securing funding for public transport, highway and public realm proposals in the City.

PBA is also part of the team behind the statutory Birmingham Development Plan submitted to the Secretary of State in July 2014. We have prepared the Strategic Housing Market Assessment and supported the Council as they prepare options for new housing areas. We are currently assessing housing need and housing development options for the wider market area, covering Greater Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country.

BIRMINGHAM DEVELOPMENT PLANPre-submission version

Planning for sustainable growthDecember 2013

Big City Plan and Birmingham Development Plan, BirminghamClient: Birmingham City Council

The innovative remodelling of a complex junction addresses transport challenges and creates a valuable town centre development.

This mixed-use, one million sq ft development provides a unique opportunity to combine urban regeneration with a transport solution and to resolve significant severance between Lewisham’s transport hub and town centre. Detailed design, transport engineering and placemaking combine to facilitate large footprint shopping formats into a high street environment and the economic benefits of enhanced pedestrian links and new network creation for the town centre.

Initially providing transport consultancy services, our brief developed to provide all planning engineering and sustainability services, and support of the RIBA Stage C masterplan for retail, residential, commercial and a public transport interchange with improved highway layouts.

This site will be transformed with new public spaces and a new riverside park which will act as the heart of the town centre. A car-free pedestrian route will create direct access from the town centre to bus, train and DLR stations. Our solutions will create a better environment for residents, laying the foundation for future economic and social improvement.

Challenges included: remodelling of major highways and rivers; detailed capacity analysis of a complex highway and complex utilities diversions.

We provided transport, environmental, civil/structural infrastructure engineering, utility liaison, Environment Agency liaison, co-ordination/preparation of the environmental assessment, acoustic, air quality, ecology, geotechnical and water resources, energy and waste management advice.

PBA continues to be involved as contractor’s designer for this major town centre remodeling project.

Lewisham Gateway, LewishamClients: Muse Developments, Taylor Wimpey

Associated professionals: Arup Associates and Quod

Movement Strategies

Our innovative approach to transport assessments and strategies has swiftly unlocked development opportunities in Wembley, north London. Our approach is now being used to support further planning applications in the area.

The London Designer Outlet Village is a major mixed-use development that includes retail, offices, a hotel and cinema. Quintain commissioned us to audit a previously-completed transport assessment and to review the transport strategy for the scheme. Our conclusions highlighted major difficulties with the deliverability and sustainability of the strategy in relation to assumptions used from modes of transport to and from catchment areas. The performance of the highway network was also a concern.

As part of the review, we adopted an approach that assessed not only the development site’s opportunities but also all aspects of Wembley Stadium and Brent town centre’s operations. It included assessing a realistic impact on the transport infrastructure rather than a ‘standard’ worst case approach. We developed a strategic micro-simulation (Vissim) model to test the impacts of the development proposals.

We also prepared detailed access and movement strategies. From the initial audit, we developed a bespoke first principles travel model. This demonstrated to both London Borough of Brent (LBB) and Transport for London (TfL) that the impacts of a large-scale regeneration development were low, thus requiring an assessment of local, rather than strategic, effects. Our travel planning and negotiation of Section 106 agreements complemented our initial transport planning work. Collaboration with both LBB (and their consultants) and TfL was critical in ensuring that the time between planning submission and planning consent was only six months.

We also worked closely with the landscape architect on the public realm scheme.

Wembley, LondonClient: Quintain Plc

Associated professionals: Make, Leslie Jones

20 9

Screen CinemaRestaurantsShops Peoples nearest outlet centre

50+ 5.8m

Delivering Development

Windsor’s central shopping centre was redeveloped to improve Waitrose’s store as well as refurbishment of the 1000-space car park. The project, including a hotel, upgraded and reconstructed retail space and was carried out within a sensitive conservation area. Concrete repair and substantial refurbishment of the existing multi-storey car park was carried out concurrently.

This reconstruction used hybrid combinations of structure appropriate to the different uses in the building. For example, basic reinforced concrete semi-basement, three to seven storeys of concrete for deliveries, plant and ‘back of house’ spaces, and hot rolled long-span steel roof and elevation structured a new Waitrose raised

one level above its original level prior to redevelopment. Cold-formed steel framing, inserted in the concrete frame maximised the number of floor levels/rooms provided within a constrained overall height. Precast standard ‘bridge’ beams were used over the service road. A hybrid structure was essential to maximise the value of the new spaces provided.

The site was directly adjacent to the other half of the shopping centre, kept in operation throughout the work. Public access to the car park was disrupted by a few midday and night possessions when the 1000-space car park had its nine-storey ramps modified, reversing flows to suit Waitrose’s request for a ‘fast up’.

King Edward Court, WindsorClient: Analytical Properties Plc

We provided design and structural engineering support for Streatham Hub, a multi-million pound regeneration scheme.

We helped deliver a new bus interchange for Transport for London with a basement car park below it, a new Tesco supermarket and a residential complex of 250 apartments.Tesco’s urban regeneration subsidiary, Spenhill, is funding the Streatham Hub, with new leisure and transport facilities forming part of its planning agreement with the London Borough of Lambeth.

The development includes a six-lane, 25-metre swimming pool with a new ice rink over the top, which replaces a rink dating from the 1930s. The 250 flats above and around the Tesco Extra supermarket provide a mix of private, shared-ownership and affordable homes.

Additionally, Streatham Bus Garage has been demolished and a new bus interchange has been built in its place. The main contractor, Vinci, divided the site in two, with the supermarket and transport interchange on the northern half of the site, and the leisure centre to the south. We undertook design and structural engineering work for the Tesco and TfL elements of the development. We also provided drainage engineering services.

The new bus interchange became operational in the summer of 2012. The leisure centre and Tesco’s store opened to the public in 2013 and the apartments were completed in 2014.

Streatham Hub Development, South LondonClient: Spenhill (the regeneration subsidiary of Tesco)

5,855 1000

Seat Ice RinkSupermarket(sq m)

New Homes Bus Interchange for Transport for London

250

We work with investors and asset managers to increase the value of their retail assets through delivering refurbishments, extensions and alterations. This service incorporates the full range of our technical services. In particular, our planning team are experienced on advising on planning strategies for securing the necessary permissions to refurbish and alter existing retail parks to attract new tenants to the site. Our advice on planning strategy is particularly relevant where the retail use of the existing buildings has significant planning restrictions. Our experience working alongside site owners, retailers and local authorities means we can advise on planning strategies that can deliver the necessary permissions to secure new tenants.

Acting on behalf of Invista and then Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, PBA has been the lead planning consultant for the owners of Mannington Retail Park since 2011. This is an important gateway development to Swindon and was a dated retail park in need of modernisation. The Park is now anchored by John Lewis at

Home. We obtained all the necessary planning permissions to enable Next Home, Mamas and Papas, Brantano, Oak Furnitureland and Marks & Spencer Food to trade from the site. The site is now trading successfully and represents a significant physical improvement to the site whilst providing a large number of jobs locally.

Mannington Retail Park, SwindonClient: Invista and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership

Asset Management

45,000 14,000

Trading Mezzanines(sq ft)

Floor Space (sq ft)

New Jobs Existing ShopsFully Refurbished

70 3

Placemaking is at the heart of creating the right environment for retail to flourish, for people to enjoy the experience and return and to further attract investment. From the strategic masterplanning of the public realm to its detailled design, implementation and management, PBA approach the retail environment in a whole life and mixed-use way.

Public Realm

Since 2009, we have been working on the highway and transport elements for the 2 million sq ft regeneration of Paradise Circus, Birmingham. We have helped the council unlock these strategic development sites to establish the vital new links for pedestrian flow from the central retail heart of the city into the wider commercial areas. This work is delivering on the Big City Plan vision to create a walkable city linking retail, transport infrastructure and business with footfall and public realm connections establishing retail planning on a larger scale. Our work included designing a realigned highway layout to accommodate current traffic levels from Birmingham City’s transport model as well as providing an improved pedestrian gateway into the city. PBA has also reviewed the implication on current public transport services, attended public consultation events and been involved in discussions with key stakeholders.

PBA provided Expert Witness at the Compulsory Purchase Order and Stopping Up Order Inquiry which was approved by the Department for Transport in 2014. Following receipt of planning consent in December 2012 we have continued to be involved in the delivery of the scheme. Our current work includes the detailed design of all highway works for this scheme, including the necessary coordination with Centro for a proposed metro scheme and Birmingham City Council for all approvals.

The scope entails full design for all civil engineering aspects, highway and drainage design, structural engineering, utility diversion design, and detailed discussions on phasing and traffic management during the works with Birmingham. We are the project manager of the scheme under an NEC3 contract.

Paradise Circus, Birmingham

Our eye for the bigger picture is helping achieve our client’s objectives for King’s Cross Central, a high profile urban regeneration project. The £38m Eastern Goods Yard scheme has transformed much of the historic Grade II listed Granary Complex north of King’s Cross and St Pancras International station into a university campus for around 6,500 students and staff.

The creation of quality public realm provides an attractive, vibrant focus at the heart of this key development. The project created 25,000 sq m area of public space, a new bridge across the Regent’s Canal, green infrastructure and refurbishment of the canal towpath. The mixed use masterplanning around a feature public space, retail square and street is facilitating the step change needed to brand the wider environment during phased implementation. The interface of university, creativity, tech industry and transport infrastructure establishes a destination for retailers and temporary, interim uses.

We are planning and delivering the development infrastructure to support the vision of the area, providing an environment of high quality materials and green infrastructure that facilitates the flexible use of public realm and the need to robustly accommodate place management and operations.

The detailed works are being delivered to a constrained programme, linked to the construction and commissioning of the on-site combined heat and power plant, district heating and other utility networks. Our earthworks and remediation strategies have dealt with localised contamination while the streetscape design covers the realignment of existing roads and creation of new streets. Innovative utilities and bridge architecture has created the gateway over the Regent’s Canal and established a new link down to the waterfront. We are leading the utilities strategy for the wider development and negotiating agreements with authorities and detailed liaison and approvals with Network Rail.

This is the first phase of a large development on a complex, brownfield site. Our professional understanding of the impacts on the wider area, and the relationships with other proposals, is key to the project’s success.

King’s Cross Central, LondonClient: Argent (BAM Nuttall, Carillion, Kier)

Town Centre Strategy

London Boroughs must actively plan for more housing, and allow for other changing uses, in town centres if the capital is to meet the challenges of rapid growth, explained a new report for the Greater London Authority, which PBA co-authored.

Accommodating Growth in Town Centres will inform the London Plan and be the focus of future regeneration funding and programmes.

The report finds that the capital’s town centres are already undergoing significant restructuring that is challenging their traditional role. Town centres have been particularly hit by changing shopping habits and working practices. The report recommended that restructuring is led by residential development in order to create a balanced mix of uses in town centres, while resolving many of the structural issues holding back London’s town centrtes.

The report recommends that the Mayor’s support be directed at those centres which have the potential for intensification; are under threat of decline as a result of structural change; and where there is the commitment and capacity to deliver intensification.

Kit Malthouse, Deputy Mayor for Business and Enterprise, said: “London’s high streets are the heartbeat of the capital’s business community and the Mayor’s recently published ‘Action for High Streets’ aims to maximise their huge potential while delivering tens of thousands of new homes. This is a very useful piece of work which will help us ensure our high streets rise to the challenge of reinventing themselves as places to live as well as work, and thrive for years to come.”

Accommodating Growth in Town CentresClient: Greater London Authority

Town centres are struggling to adapt. We advise local authorities, town centre stakeholders and investors/developers on strategies to enhance performance, develop an attractive offer, improve accessibility and overcome revenue constraints and create better places for local communities.

Bridlington Town Centre Area Action Plan, Bridlington, East Yorkshire

Brentford: Future of the High Street Feasibility StudyClient: London Borough of Hounslow

Client: East Riding of Yorkshire Council

We led the multi-disciplinary team that conceived the regeneration strategy for Bridlington’s town centre and prepared, from issues and options stage through to examination, the Area Action Plan (AAP) needed to deliver it.

The centrepieces of the strategy are a major housing and retail-led development scheme and a new marina that also restores the historic harbour. The projects require compulsory purchase, Transport & Works Act and Harbour Revision orders, and the AAP is drafted to lay the ground for these.

The AAP also includes a within-centre sequential approach in favour of the major projects and an in-centre impact test to safeguard their delivery. The AAP was found sound in August 2012 and adopted in January 2013.

We undertook a feasibility study into the future of Brentford High Street, the purpose of which was to recommend a sustainable economic model for the High Street and to set up the principles of an attractive offer to potential investors. In doing so, we answered key questions from the Council and made recommendations for the role of the Council, improving the retail experience, how it could be special/distinctive (given its riverside location) and how to enhance the public realm and calm through traffic. We also recommended an innovative approach to future High Street management.

Need for TCIM identified in a

Business Neighbourhood

Plan/AAP

Local Authority agrees to support

plan with CPO

Investor partner is selected to

implement TCIM

Investors capital for development/ refurbishment and capital investment

Rental Income covers operational

expenditure

Town Centre asset management team to manage

and undertake operational work. This team would be

highly performance managed

Town Centre trust created

Property is purchased at market rate or

‘swapped’ for bonds of equivalent value secured against the

trust

There is a widespread view that one of the overriding factors in the inability of the High Street to adapt to change has been poor asset management of high street shops due to fragmented ownership. We have published a thought leadership paper about getting investment back into our town centres, by resolving the problem of fragmented ownership, through the application of asset management techniques. We call this approach Town Centre Investment Management (TCIM) and believe that for many centres this is likely to result in a step change in the performance of the town centre, the local economy and its service and value to the local community.

Asset management is distinct from facilities management which is where the current funding and application of techniques is concentrated. This includes such measures as: local improvements, town teams, BIDs, partnerships, etc.), which have worked within the town centre’s current configuration. While such measures have undoubtedly made a difference, it has become more apparent that an innovative and forward-thinking approach is needed to tackle the issue of empty high street properties, poor occupier line-ups and failing town centres. TCIM involves the pooling of assets to form a critical mass of properties that can then be adapted and curated.

Town Centre Investment Management

www.towncentreinvestment.com

Need for TCIM identified in a

Business Neighbourhood

Plan/AAP

Local Authority agrees to support

plan with CPO

Investor partner is selected to

implement TCIM

Investors capital for development/ refurbishment and capital investment

Rental Income covers operational

expenditure

Town Centre asset management team to manage

and undertake operational work. This team would be

highly performance managed

Town Centre trust created

Property is purchased at market rate or

‘swapped’ for bonds of equivalent value secured against the

trust

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