The Co-operative Group is the world’s largest consumer co-operative with a turnover of more than £9 billion, 2.5 million active members and around 85,000 employees. As well as food retailing and financial services, our other businesses include pharmacy, funeral care and travel, together with property, motor dealerships, consumer legal services, and farming. In addition, we run the online electrical and bed retailer, Electrical Shop.
The Co-operative Group is the world’s largest consumer co-operative with a turnover of more than £9 billion, 2.5 million active members and around 85,000 employees. As well as food retailing and financial services, our other businesses include pharmacy, funeral care and travel, together with property, motor dealerships, consumer legal services, and farming. In addition, we run the online electrical and bed retailer, Electrical Shop.
The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) is the professional body for people working in housing and regeneration. We are a registered charity and a non-profit making organisation. We have a diverse and growing membership of over 20,000 people living and working in over 20 countries and five continents across the world. Our purpose is to maximise the contribution that housing professionals make to the well-being of communities. Our corporate priorities include:
English Partnerships is the Government’s national regeneration agency delivering high quality, sustainable growth in England. It does this by developing its portfolio of strategic projects and acting as the Government’s advisor on brownfield land. It also ensures that surplus public sector assets are used to support wider Government objectives, especially those contained in the Sustainable Communities Plan. English Partnerships helps create communities where people can afford to live and want to live.
English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation are working with the Department for Communities and Local Government to establish the proposed new homes agency.
Always looking for innovative ways to improve our neighbourhoods, we help create and maintain sustainable communities within London and the south-east. Currently delivering groundbreaking schemes including the £138 million Tavy Bridge regeneration project in Thamesmead, we are also building on past successes such as the multi-award winning Ecopark by putting the environment at the heart of our new developments.
Our excellent public realm management services improve the lives of our residents and our recognition for constant improvement ensures our activities and interests are central to the needs of the community we work in.
Harworth Estates is the property division of UK COAL, a mining, power and property company employing 3,100 people with its headquarters at Harworth Park, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
In addition to producing almost nine million tonnes of coal a year, UK COAL is also the owner of one of the country's largest brownfield property assets, actively managed by Harworth Estates.
This comprises 46,500 acres of land and other property, having a 2007 current asset value in the region of £400m set to more than double in the next five years as plans to develop more than 70 sites come to fruition.
The property portfolio will create opportunities for building around 20,000 homes and 29 million square feet of business space mainly in Yorkshire, the Midlands and the North East. Regeneration projects include promoting large scale Urban Extensions, the construction and development of commercial buildings either directly or in joint ventures with partners.
NHBC is the leading consumer protection body for new home construction in the UK. Established more than 70 years ago as a non-profit distributing company, it is the leading warranty and insurance provider for new homes in the UK with the primary purpose of raising standards in the new house-building industry and providing consumer protection for new house buyers.
A key focus of NHBC’s recent work has been to champion the consumer in the drive to meet the Government’s 2016 zero carbon homes target. Its independent research partnerships with BRE, the research-focused NHBC Foundation and policy think-tank The National Centre for Excellence in Housing, have also devoted themselves to tackling the sustainability agenda.
Regeneration & Renewal is the UK’s number one magazine for the regeneration profession.
Circulated to over 15,500 regeneration professionals every week, Regeneration & Renewal is essential reading for public and private sector professionals working in regeneration, helping readers to learn from the successes and failures of projects both in the UK and overseas. Regeneration & Renewal is the first place to look for jobs; carrying more recruitment pages than any other regeneration-focused publication.
For more information please visit our website www.regen.net
Sovereign Housing Group is a leading provider of affordable housing across southern England. Our members (Sovereign, Twynham and The Vale Housing Associations) currently own and manage 22,000 homes. We also lead the Sovereign Development Consortium, a Housing Corporation preferred partner.
Our group structure enables us to provide strong central support but also local service delivery. From rural housing schemes to urban regeneration projects, we work closely with local authorities, the community and other partners to develop a shared vision of place and provide homes and neighbourhoods where people want to live.
Spawforths is largest independent planning practice in Yorkshire comprising three main areas of expertise – planning, architecture and urbanism.
As a people-focused business with more than 50 staff, long-term client relationships are fundamentally important to us.
Planning Magazine’s 2007 Consultants Survey confirmed Spawforths as the tenth largest planning consultancy nationally in the regeneration sector and amongst the top 20 consultancies in the residential, commercial and mixed-use development sectors.
Our current projects include: a Carbon Challenge designated scheme at Brodsworth in Doncaster (one of only four nationally); strategic mixed-use developments in North Wales, Liverpool and Pontefract; major retail and leisure schemes in St Helens and Manchester; and an exciting project in South Yorkshire with scope to deliver up to 15,000 new homes.
We currently are handling over £1 billion worth of development for our clients.
The Sustainable Communities Excellence Network is an alliance of the nine Regional Centres of Excellence for Sustainable Communities established throughout England. We equip people, partnerships and leaders with the skills and knowledge to enable the practical delivery of regeneration and sustainable communities. We interact with the cross-sector regeneration community through our 20,000+ registered contacts, millions of web visitors, thousands of events and numerous partnerships and networks.
For more information on the Regional Centres of Excellence for Sustainable Communities, please email Diana Thompson at diana.thompson@creatingexcellence.org.uk or call 01823 250804.
