The top partnerships driving change in the property industry
Lendlease and Southwark Council
This duo are working together to regenerate 28 acres of land at Elephant & Castle, SE1. The £2bn project, due to complete in 2025, will deliver 3,000 new homes, 50 shops, and some 6,000 jobs. The pair have also collaborated to deliver new skills to the area’s population, including a construction skills centre, which will train 500 local residents annually.
Argent Related
Since the developers behind the transformation of London’s King’s Cross, WC1, and Hudson Yards in New York City came together in March 2015, this collaboration has won projects that will see it deliver more than 7,500 new homes across London and transform Tottenham Hale, N15, and Brent Cross, NW2.
Howard Bernstein and Richard Leese
Manchester council’s chief executive, Sir Howard Bernstein, and its leader, Sir Richard Leese, are the partnership that has made Manchester the poster child for effective local governance. Together for more than 20 years, the pair have brought major investment into Manchester.
Nigel Hugill and Robin Butler
For more than two decades this duo has been instrumental in some of the biggest regeneration projects across London – White City, Greenwich Peninsula and Stratford – and have now, through their Urban & Civic vehicle, started to do the same across the regions. The greatest regeneration collaboration in history?
John Burns and Simon Silver
This duo have been called the shrewdest, wisest and most active minds in property. For the past three decades, the pair have taken Derwent London from a £1.5m cash shell to one of the most respected and coolest London developers with a market capitalisation of £3bn, and with it transformed fringe areas of the capital into sought-after destinations.
Sir Stuart Lipton and Peter Rogers
Partners for more than 30 years, these two have been at the forefront of innovation, placemaking and planning. First through Stanhope and more recently through Lipton Rogers, this pair has delivered several of London’s most iconic developments, including Broadgate and Chiswick Park.
Margaret Ford, Helen Gordon and Vanessa Simms
The three women in charge of the transformation of the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, Grainger. Together they are working to revolutionise the 104-year-old company and turn it into an income-focused business. Individually brilliant, collectively unstoppable.
Sadiq Khan and James Murray
With the new London mayor not showing the greatest of interest in the property community – rumour has it he will not be attending MIPIM – this collaboration has to work for the sake of the real estate industry. Khan has already shown that he will put delivery of homes ahead of profitability. It will be down to deputy mayor for housing and residential development James Murray to work with both the mayor and the industry.
Theresa May and Philip Hammond
Only one word is really needed to explain the need for a collaborative effort from the UK’s new PM and chancellor. Brexit. Together these two have to work to make sure the UK makes the most of its decision to exit the EU.
The Crown Estate and Norges Bank Investment Management
This partnership has enabled the Crown Estate to bring forward the transformation of London’s Regent Street, W1, and add to its holding by buying the adjacent Pollen Estate. As the Crown is unable to borrow, NBIM’s £682bn wealth is vital for the Crown’s development ambitions. And provides NBIM with a healthy return, of course.
For the second year in a row, a public body has been awarded Estates Gazette’s Collaborators Award. Click here to find out the winner.
- POLITICAL PARTNERSHIPS The local authorities, politicians, councillors and companies whose partnerships caught the eye of this year’s judges.
- TECH TEAMS The top partnerships using technology to improve the built environment
- SOCIAL SUPERHEROES Working together need not only happen inside the workplace, as these collaborative efforts show
- CREATIVE SPACES Collaborating to create the best places to live and work
