Trafalgar Wharf Development
Background
A redundant shipbuilding site with potential for alternative uses including marine related high-tech manufacturing, leisure and residential, subject to solving flood defence issues.
Development Initiatives
- Collaborated with Portsmouth City Council and the Environment Agency to develop a proposal to redevelop the site to provide up to 160 homes and 220,000 sq ft of B1/B2/B8 accommodation.
- Agreed to fund a significant contribution towards the provision of flood defences to protect the site itself and surrounding area from projected flooding owing to sea level rise.
- Secured a resolution to grant consent.
What We Did
- Advised on the acquisition.
- Secured a joint agreement with the Environment Agency to develop flood defences to the site and neighbouring property.
- Obtained a resolution to grant consent for a mixed-use redevelopment
- Advised and assisted in the asset management and development of the industrial/logistics element of the site
- Portsmouth
- Location
- 22
- Acres
- 220,000
- Square foot
- Past
- Status
- Amazon Investments
- Partner
Meet the team who worked on the Trafalgar Wharf project
Christopher specialises in retail and mixed-use sectors and has worked in the retail park, shopping centre, and leisure markets since 1987. Christopher started his real estate career at Capital & Counties in retail asset management, followed by Matthews & Goodman in investment and development with a focus on retail parks. Since founding Quadrant with Tristam Gethin in 1997, he works with a variety of investors, including UK REITs, institutions and landowners, private equity and overseas investors and has developed over 2.5 million sq ft in the UK. Christopher has been responsible for the origination and acquisition of projects with a combined GAV of over £1.5 billion since founding the company.