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Contents
Power outlet
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Going for growth
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Making waves
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Building for the future
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Northern soul
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Snapshot of Portsmouth
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Life in the fast lane
Watch this space
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Cleaning up
Getting a wiggle on
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Out-of-this-world location
Treasured islands
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Join us
Shaping the Future of Portsmouth Investment and regeneration are happening now Supplying and supporting the Royal Navy From stunning museums to breathtaking towers A city centre development with a difference Facts and figures tell the story
World-leading satellite technology
The luxury hideaways that lie offshore
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Creating great video games on the waterfront
Foreword
From local bike shop to global online giant Cover image: Computer generated-image from the upcoming animated film Stina and the Wolf, produced by Foam Digital, a visual effects facility operating out the University of Portsmouth (see page 36).
The next level
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The ultimate retail and leisure destination
A passion for Portsmouth
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Attractions for visitors and residents alike
A gem by the sea
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An jeweller sparkles in Southsea
Sounds delicious
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Cool records and hot comfort food
Where dreams are made real
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Cover story: cutting-edge digital animation
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Success and growth without losing the fun
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Purifying everything from beer to paint
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Doing business where Daleks ruled
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How you can be part of the great waterfront city
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Portsmouth: the great waterfront city
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Foreword
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elcome to Rise – a magazine about success and opportunity in Portsmouth, the great waterfront city.
Rise is produced by Shaping the Future of Portsmouth, a partnership of major private companies and key public bodies delivering the city's ambitious regeneration strategy. In these pages you will see just some of the success stories happening in the city today, told by the people making them happen. Blake Lapthorn, the law firm where I am the managing partner, was founded in 1869 in Portsmouth. We have provided a mayor and two lord mayors to the city. We have always been very closely associated with Portsmouth, and I am delighted to be able to carry on this tradition. The private and public sectors can gain a lot from each other. We all benefit from sharing expertise, developing the local workforce and working together for growth. This is what Shaping the Future of Portsmouth is all about, and it is a huge honour for me to chair the group.
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Just to pick out some achievements, we have organised three opportunities fairs for young people, recruited more than 100 ambassadors to spread the word about the city's regeneration programme, and created a business buddying programme for headteachers. Even more importantly, we have brought in millions of pounds of investment. When the group was inaugurated in 2010 we had about 100 people turn up to its first meeting. At our last annual conference there were about 200, and interest in the initiative remains high. Neighbouring cities are looking at the Portsmouth model with some envy. This is an organisation about doing and delivering. So if you're interested in joining the companies on these pages, and finding success in the great waterfront city, do get in touch. Walter Cha Chair, Shaping the Future of Portsmouth
Impression of possible city centre developments
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Going for growth Huge investment in Portsmouth's economy is under way, with new transport infrastructure, new sites for development, and a boost for ultrafast broadband, says Portsmouth City Council's director of regeneration, Kathy Wadsworth.
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ortsmouth is being transformed as a wave of public and private investment totalling over ÂŁ1bn heads for the city.
The transformation is apparent as soon as you arrive on the M275, which runs right into the city centre. The new motorway junction we're building here will open up large areas in the north-west of the city to housing and commercial development. The junction was made possible with ÂŁ19.5m from the government and ÂŁ8.5m of council money, and will be part of a new interchange including a park-and-ride with more than 600 spaces. Regular buses will take park-and-ride customers into the city centre along a new bus priority lane, and then on to The Hard, for the Historic Dockyard and Gunwharf Quays shopping centre (see p26-27). The park-and-ride will cater for the increase that regeneration will bring in the number of people arriving for leisure, work and shopping. Our next major project will be a new road layout for the city centre, linking with the new bus lane. This will reduce congestion for drivers and make public transport a more attractive option. Put the whole picture together and you have a city where the transport network will have been reconfigured to drive sustainable economic growth.
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One of the most exciting developments coming up is the Northern Quarter (see p14-15) which will see the city centre remodelled and revitalised as a regional retail and leisure destination. We're also planning to enhance the seafront with new restaurants, cafes, open spaces and artworks, plus a major hotel and conference centre. Several impressive hotel developments in the city centre have planning permission, and will help us increase the quantity and quality of our hotel accommodation. There are great proposals for new hotel, commercial and residential development at The Hard (see main picture), where we're planning a new bus terminal and improvements to public areas. Just outside the city, at Dunsbury Hill Farm on the A3, the council is planning to make a 50-acre site into a great business location, with permission already obtained for the road infrastructure. We've also secured up to ÂŁ4.7m from the government's SuperConnected Cities programme. Using this we plan to hugely extend public wi-fi sites and give grants to SMEs to help them upgrade to ultrafast broadband and compete better in the global marketplace. And of course Portsmouth is part of a wider Solent economy, which is why we work closely with the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership, Southampton City Council and PUSH, the Partnership for Urban South Hampshire. One hugely promising initiative we have been working on is a joint City Deal with Southampton, which would allow us to release land for development, bring forward regeneration plans, support business growth and target training towards employer demand. We are boosting growth in key sectors such as advanced manufacturing, marine, aerospace, environmental technologies, transport and logistics, and the creative industries.
Kathy Wadsworth on one of the Spinnaker Tower's viewing decks
Regeneration is happening, and with it will come opportunities for huge improvements in the lives of local people.
Regeneration is happening, and with it will come opportunities for huge improvements in the lives of local people, with over 11,000 new jobs and support for businesses to grow.
Artist's impression of the proposed Bouygues UK high-rise development at The Hard (see p12-13) with existing buildings below.
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There is going to be a lot of investment in Portsmouth in the next decade, on the back of the carriers and the regeneration of the city, and I can't think of any other cities in the country that are like that.
Making waves Supplying and supporting the Royal Navy is a huge job, and a vital one for the local economy as well as for the nation, says Rory Fisher, managing director of maritime services at BAE Systems.
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n operational naval base is a really vibrant place to work in. It's different every morning, and there's a great energy from the constant movement of ships and people. And what we do is important – we help protect those who protect us. I run the maritime services business within BAE Systems. I have about 2,600 employees in Portsmouth, most of them at HM Naval Base, and there are also about 1,300 in the city working for our shipbuilding business. One of our roles is to run the base for the Ministry of Defence. It's almost like running a small city – maintaining the buildings, cutting the grass, keeping the lights on and providing three meals a day for the 2,500 Royal Navy personnel who live here. We would argue that the industrial revolution started here, and we still have what is basically a Victorian dockyard. There are about 900 buildings on about 300 acres, with 12,000 military and civilian employees. We also maintain and support naval ships worldwide, including the world's most advanced destroyers, the navy's Type 45s. All the equipment, all the systems – we keep them available 24/7. Our other role is to provide training to the Royal Navy as well as to design, develop, manufacture and support radar and torpedoes, which we do from facilities on the Isle of Wight and elsewhere in Portsmouth.
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Main picture: Type 45 destroyer. Left to right: Rory Fisher, BAE Systems apprentice at work, mock-up showing new aircraft carrier in Portsmouth Harbour, small boats facility.
BAE Systems is part of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, building the nation’s two new aircraft carriers, which will be based in Portsmouth. Major sections of the first one, HMS Queen Elizabeth, were built here. She will arrive in Portsmouth in around four years, and the countdown to get ready has already begun. When the new 65,000-tonne carriers are here, there will be a greater tonnage of ships based in the city than at any time since the 1950s. They'll be in service for 50 years, making ours a longterm, enduring business. There has been a naval base here since 1194 and that is a heritage we can all be proud of and a tradition I want to help carry on. We believe our business is fundamental to the city and the wider area. £1.7bn is the annual economic output of the naval base and 4% of all full-time jobs in the Solent area depend directly or indirectly on it. That's up to 20,000 jobs. Being involved in the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership and Shaping the Future of Portsmouth was natural for us. The education work stream run by Shaping is particularly important, because we need an able workforce and there are people who will support and crew the new ships who have not been born yet. The team have done a great job – they've achieved a lot in a short space of time. There is going to be a lot of investment in Portsmouth in the next decade, on the back of the carriers and the regeneration of the city, and I can't think of any other cities in the country that are like that.
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Building for the future Heritage is important to Bouygues UK, builders of one of Britain's most stunning museums. But projects to come, including a breath-taking tower, are now the focus, says group strategy and finance director Philippe Jouy.
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arings, one of the companies the Bouygues group has acquired, has operated in Portsmouth for more than 80 years. It's been involved in a large number of schemes that have re-shaped the city, including the Marriott Hotel and the D-Day Museum. Our most recent major project in the city was building the Mary Rose Museum, housing Henry VIII's warship, raised from the seabed in 1982. It was enormously challenging. We had to build in and around a listed dry dock and the hull of the ship while it was still being sprayed with preservatives. Thanks to the new museum the trust has been able to display most of the 19,000 artefacts that were recovered from the wreckage, including dice the sailors played with, peppercorns, combs and the skeleton of the ship's dog. It opened in May 2013 and has already proved very popular. I think it will win many awards. It very much contributes to the cultural offer of the city, and makes Portsmouth an even more interesting place to visit. We're now looking at the development of a site nearby at The Hard – a mixed commercial and residential development including an iconic 38-storey tower. It will make a real statement on the skyline alongside the Spinnaker Tower. Portsmouth works well for us. It's close to London and continental Europe. As well as Warings in Portsmouth, we've also recently acquired Leadbitter in Southampton. We've chosen to bring them
together in a new base in Portsmouth. If the city didn't work for us, we wouldn't have done that. The level of engagement we've had with other businesses, and with Portsmouth City Council, has definitely been a factor in that decision. Portsmouth and Southampton are not competitors, they're very complementary, and work together within a dynamic sub-region. I'm convinced they will achieve substantial growth, especially in the aerospace and maritime sector and in advanced engineering. It's important for a company with our local history to give back to the community. We have been involved with Shaping the Future of Portsmouth from an early stage. When I arrived here in 2007 I was looking to be involved with the city, but there was no real opportunity to do so. When we started Shaping Portsmouth we put a framework in place which enables companies to get involved where they feel they can contribute. It's fantastic. What we've done under the Shaping banner has brought a great dynamic to the city. It's unique. Portsmouth has got a strong and united business community, working hand-in-hand with the council, committed to the future prosperity of the city. And it's making an impact. I don't think you have that in all cities. Portsmouth is a city on the move, with passionate people and ambitious plans for development. When you see the delivery of the Mary Rose Museum, and look forward to the building at The Hard and to development in the northern part of the city, you realise that things are happening, things are moving, and the efforts of people are paying off.
Main picture: Philippe Jouy at 1000 Lakeside, Portsmouth, Bouygues UK's regional base, where the company added a stunning new atrium. Top: Mary Rose Museum. Bottom: planned development at The Hard.
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Northern soul
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The Northern Quarter development will transform Portsmouth city centre and its retail sector. But it will also be a human space where people feel they belong, says John Marsh of urban regeneration specialists Centros.
We believe there's a tremendous opportunity in Portsmouth. There's a catchment population in excess of a million people.
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hile city centre development across the UK has virtually ground to a standstill in recent years, strong cities like Portsmouth are now attracting demand from retailers and leisure operators for space in high-quality new developments. We believe there's a tremendous opportunity in Portsmouth to completely revitalise the city centre and bring it back into the premier league of shopping destinations. But with the increased popularity of the internet, any new retail destination needs to provide shoppers with a compelling reason to visit. So while shopping will be the major attraction of the Northern Quarter, there will be restaurants, cafés, a cinema and apartments too. It will join seamlessly with the existing city centre streets. It will have a department store; 50 to 60 other shops, including top-brand fashion names; restaurants to suit all budgets; cafés with outdoor seating; a cinema, and new parking. We'll also create an important public space around St Agatha's Church, with places to eat and drink. It’s important to create such spaces where people can feel safe – where they can meet and sit and enjoy the atmosphere of a vibrant city centre where people live. It will feel like they have ownership. And they won't leave at 5.30pm, as there will be a plenty to do in the evenings. From the retailer’s point of view, one of Portsmouth’s biggest attractions is that it has a catchment population in excess of a million people. The city has huge potential and there’s much that is already happening. Shaping the Future of Portsmouth is a really positive step towards coordinating public and private regeneration initiatives. Developments being pursued by Portsmouth City Council have secured public funding and will undoubtedly help to attract further private-sector investment. We're working closely with the council, which is putting forward plans to significantly improve the city centre road network at the same time. City centre regeneration projects are inevitably very complex and when you have such a strong public-private sector partnership you stand the best chance of delivering a high-quality successful development. Over the last 15 years or so, we’ve worked with many other councils to deliver regeneration in town centres around the UK. A recent example is the highly successful Arc scheme in Bury St Edmunds, which has boosted the whole town by drawing back shoppers who were previously going elsewhere. It won awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Civic Trust and the British Council of Shopping Centres. When the Northern Quarter opens in 2018, it will help transform the city’s overall attraction. It will bring new operators and revitalised formats from existing stores into a regenerated city centre, supported by everything else that Portsmouth offers as a whole, including the outstanding tourism offer. Add this to the huge success of the new Mary Rose Museum, schemes for new hotels, the rejuvenation plan for The Hard, the Tipner motorway interchange project, housing regeneration in the Somerstown area and aspirations for the seafront, and you have a good message: that the city can deliver.
Main picture: Artist's impression of part of the Northern Quarter scheme, Portsmouth city centre. Top right: Centros director John Marsh at St Agatha's Church.
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The basic strategy of Portsmouth, to focus on more high-tech areas, and have an educated workforce, is the right and only strategy.
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Main picture and top right: Satellite payloads and products being built and tested at Astrium, Portsmouth. Š Astrium. Right: Mike Healy
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Business is booming in space, says Mike Healy, site director at satellite company Astrium, a major player in Portsmouth's high-tech sector.
he space industry in the UK was worth about £7bn five years ago, and is now worth about £10bn, despite the recession. The trend has been a very positive one since 2001 and Portsmouth has grown consistently with the trend. The challenge now is to see if we can increase that growth. On this site the biggest thing we do is design and manufacture satellite payloads. The payload is the real 'brain' of the satellite. It might be a set of scientific instruments that look for climate change, or you might be re-broadcasting a TV signal down to a specific region. Ten years ago we employed about 1,000 people. Now 1,200 to 1,500 are on-site, depending on the project mix. The payload goes from here to Toulouse, where it's integrated with the platform – the satellite's support system – and the solar panels. It's tested there and then they fly it to Baikonur in Kazakhstan or Kourou in French Guiana, or other launch sites around the world. To make one of our satellites takes just under three years, from contract award to launch, but some scientific development projects can last five or six years. You invest a significant portion of your life in each of them. When it's launched there's a mixture of pride and trepidation – because a launch can go wrong. We have to manufacture products that work reliably for 15 years while operating 36,000km above the earth – they can't be repaired in space. We pride ourselves on our quality and reliability. Even the containers in which we ship our products have additional safety features such
as accelerometers, so we can assure the customer they haven't been damaged en route. The vast majority of our workforce – about 70% – is degree-qualified. We rely on the quality of our people, and over the years Portsmouth has proved reliable in either attracting people with the best skills or providing enough local people with the right skillsets. This is a university city next to the sea, in a relatively nice part of the world. We have strong apprenticeships here, and we see good retention rates. We engage a lot with the local community and we're always really impressed with the quality of the students. There's a tradition of companies working in the electronics and radar sector in Portsmouth, so there's a pretty healthy recruitment environment. There's an increasing number of low-cost economies around the world that are developing, or will soon develop, more advanced capability in space technology, so you have to be doing something that's not so easy for them to replicate. High-tech, high-value-added design and manufacturing is the way forward, and this fits well with the satellite industry I think the basic strategy of Portsmouth, to focus on more high-tech areas, and have an educated workforce, is the right and only strategy. And you have to get better year on year. If you ever get complacent or think you're in a privileged position, you can almost guarantee you will miss the next trick.
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Getting a wiggle on His company is set to become the world's biggest online cycling store. He owns 13 bikes himself. But Andy Bond, chairman of Wiggle, shows no sign of putting on the brakes.
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Pictures, clockwise from top right: Andy Bond, Team Wiggle rider James Braid after winning the Mountain Mayhem 24-hour race, the Wiggle Honda women's pro-cycling team training on the road and (main picture) at Goodwood race circuit. Team pictures by Augustus Farmer.
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iggle's story is a truly great British entrepreneurial tale. Two local guys, Mitch Dall and Harvey Jones, thought this 'internet-selling thing' could be interesting, and in 1999 they just got under way, with a £2,000 investment. Mitch owned a shop in Portsmouth called Butler Cycles. They tried selling a bit of stock out of there and it just started working. The business grew from there. When I joined in 2010 there were about 100 people on the payroll. Now there are more than 370, including about 50 in our London office. In 2008, turnover was £33m. In the most recent year, we delivered £141m. We have just over a million customers who have bought in the last 12 months. That's up from about 250,000 four years ago. About 60% of the business we do is outside the UK. We ship to 95 countries and our website is translated into nine languages. We give customers access to about 52,000 products. And the shop is always open. We send out about 50,000 orders per week. Worldwide, we're the second biggest online cycling retailer. We hope to be number one next year or the year after. We sell running and swimming gear too, and we're the biggest online retailer in the road cycling and triathlon sector. I'm a MAMIL – a middle-aged man in Lycra – myself, and I do a lot of big cycling events. Last summer I did the Trois Etapes pro-am charity event, which is like riding four days in the Tour de France. The future's very exciting for the company, not least because cycling is growing as a leisure activity. The challenge will be how to manage a business that has truly global aspirations. We do want to have a stronger physical presence, which is hard when you're an online retailer, and the route we're doing that is through events that we run ourselves or get involved with as partners, including a new triathlon in Portsmouth this year. We're also the title sponsor of the Wiggle Honda women's professional cycling team. We give back to people and give back to the industry by doing these things. People buy more stuff from us, but also from their local bike shop, as a result of the events we sponsor or operate. Portsmouth works very well for us. If an order is made before 6pm, we can deliver in the UK and to most of Europe the next day. We can get product to the main distribution hubs well, and access to Heathrow is good. We're looking for a new location locally, to cater for further growth.
Portsmouth works very well for us... We can get product to the main distribution hubs well, and access to Heathrow is good.
We've got quite a large catchment area for employees – a good resource pool – and a good, committed workforce. People who come from Portsmouth are positive about being part of the area. Plus, when we hire people from further afield and they come to live here, they seem very happy. People see prospects in the area and I would hope that we're a part of that.
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Treasured islands Fancy staying on a luxury private island? Thanks to entrepreneur Mike Clare, you can. His AmaZing Venues collection includes three incredible Victorian forts, built in the Solent off Portsmouth.
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n 2008 I sold my shares in Dreams, the bed superstore business I'd founded more than 20 years earlier. It could have been time for retirement, sitting on a beach somewhere drinking gin and tonics. However, I realised I wasn’t quite ready for retirement, and my wife Carol and I love iconic buildings. So we decided to make our hobby into a business and formed Clarenco, building up a portfolio of amazing and unique venues for exclusive breaks, themed events and celebrations. When Spitbank Fort came on the market, we bought it the day before it was due to be auctioned. I hadn’t even been out to see it, which was slightly mad. The fort had a bit of a chequered past, but I had a vision of what I wanted it to be. It was that entrepreneurial gut feeling that told me somehow it was going to be OK. Then, when we’d just about got Spitbank ready, there was an opportunity to buy the other two forts nearby – No Man’s Land and Horse Sand.
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chef. No Man’s Land is nearly three times the size of Spitbank, and has its own helipad. It will sleep more than 50 people and cater for about 200 when it has been fully refurbished. We want to make the third fort, Horse Sand, into a living museum, with re-enactments and people dressed up in historical costume. We quite often pick guests up from Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth. Since that development was built the whole city has been transformed. For businesses the city is a great place to be. The road network is fantastic, with the M27 and the M275, and since the Hindhead tunnel was built it’s quite accessible from all different parts of the country. It’s also great for the train. Our guests can come straight down from London, look around Portsmouth and then sail over to the forts from there. I think the city’s changing – there’s a lot of work being done. Old Portsmouth is now starting to have quite a vibe about it.
We want to save the heritage of these buildings. We've spent £3m renovating Spitbank, having bought it for approximately £1m, but the work has been fantastically done, to a very high standard. Now it's fully refurbished, and we’ve had household names from TV staying there, and local people too.
When you come off the M275 into town, it just seems to have that feeling.
It has nine five-star bedroom suites, a huge 16-person hot pool with stunning sea views, two sun decks and a sauna. It even comes with its own private
residents and the businesses. And it’s a great place to be, not least because
It’s certainly got a lot going for it. Quite often you find that places are either on the up, or are going down. Portsmouth is certainly on the up. It’s got a future, it’s got history, it’s got character. It’s got a sense of community in the everyone wants to be by the water.
Portsmouth is certainly on the up. It’s got a future, it’s got history, it’s got character.
Main picture and opposite, top: Spitbank Fort. Opposite, below: Mike Clare, executive chairman of Clarenco.
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hen they come here, a lot of our clients just say: 'Wow – this is one of the best places in the world to have a studio.' There are a few studios in Los Angeles on the beach, but this is pretty good. It’s the best office I’ve run from a location point of view.
The next level Coming to work by boat, devoting your day to computer games, then enjoying the waterfront nightlife... Being CEO of Climax Studios means competing in a tough global marketplace. But Simon Gardner finds it has rewards too.
We're on the waterfront at Gunwharf Quays, looking out across the Solent and Portsmouth Harbour. Most days I see something big and grey – a warship – going past my window. It’s pretty exciting. And I come to work on my boat sometimes – it’s a Rib with Space Invaders on the side, called Player 1. Climax is a computer games development company, set up by a Portsmouth guy, Karl Jeffery, who’s co-owner with me. We’ve got just under 100 people working here at the moment – all kinds of nationalities. We compete with the banks in London for the best computer code writers. We’re proud of the fact that we’re quite a green company, because we just send data down the line to the US or Japan or wherever. There are no lorries outside, no packages being sent out. We turned over just under £7m in 2012, most of it generated from overseas sales. It’s a true export business. But environmentally, we do it in a low-impact way. Our clients include Microsoft, Konami and Sony, who have made us a PlayStation 4 development partner. We’re probably best known for horror games – Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is one of our most famous titles. The company had a studio in Brighton but sold that to Disney. We were the first tenants when this development opened about 12 years ago. We’ve got the BBC next door. I came for three weeks' consultancy work, and ended up staying 10 years and running the place. I go abroad all the time, for trade shows and conferences or to meet games companies. In a year I usually go to Las Vegas, San Francisco, Paris, Cologne, LA and Tokyo. Being a global company based in Portsmouth works perfectly. It’s really easy to get to Heathrow and even Gatwick. I love the fact that the M275 motorway comes right into the heart of the city. Connections to London are perfect – Portsmouth Harbour train station is next door, with a direct line to Waterloo. A lot of overseas visitors just come straight down the A3 from London. And it’s strategically good for our industry, because it forms a triangle with Brighton and Guildford. This industry has become more like the film industry, where contractors are hired for a particular project, and the beauty of Portsmouth is that it’s in that triangular catchment area, where there’s a pool of talent. Clients who come here are interested in the history of the city. They learn about the heritage here and try to see some of the local colour – the museums and HMS Victory and so on. That’s unique to Portsmouth. And when it comes to entertaining, there’s always a restaurant with amazing views.
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Being a global company based in Portsmouth works perfectly.
Pictures, clockwise from top left: Climax Studios CEO Simon Gardner, his boat, Bloodforge, Silent Hill: Origins, two images from Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
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Main picture: Gunwharf Quays marketing manager Claire Smale. Above, right: views of Gunwharf Quays.
Power outlet At Gunwharf Quays, superyachts bob beneath the iconic Spinnaker Tower while some of the world’s coolest brands display their wares. No wonder visitors arrive from all over the south, says Claire Smale, of Land Securities.
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unwharf Quays is a retail, restaurant and leisure destination with a marina, which makes it very special. It's been a very successful centre from the day it opened 12 years ago.
Also, we share our site with the Spinnaker Tower, the UK's tallest accessible structure outside London. It's iconic, and with the Historic Dockyard next door to us you've got a strong leisure offering.
Even before I came here to work, I was impressed with Gunwharf Quays because it had a real quality edge, a feeling of difference. You can have shopping centres that are just shopping centres, and you can have others with quality and personality and character. With Gunwharf Quays it's partly the brands and partly the environment. Combined, they deliver a shopping experience that's hard to find elsewhere in the UK.
Although the majority of our visitors live within 90 minutes of Portsmouth, research shows us that we're actually drawing from a far wider catchment. So an important part of our strategy moving forward will be to actively target a 120-minute catchment area, taking in affluent areas such as Guildford and Kingston and south-west London.
However, we're not one to rest on our laurels, and although we've had consistently good growth over the years, we believe there are further opportunities. Our vision is to turn Gunwharf Quays into an unmissable premium retail outlet destination for the UK that attracts both national and international visitors to Portsmouth.
In recent years we have also seen a noticeable increase in the number of overseas visitors as a result of the work Portsmouth City Council, the destination marketing partnership and the regional tourist board have undertaken, and this is certainly an area we will be focusing on and looking to capitalise on in the short term.
To deliver this we're looking at extending the offering of aspirational brands in the centre to complement names such as Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss and Jaeger who are already here.
For businesses, Portsmouth's connections are very good. You have rail, you have Southampton Airport just 30 minutes down the road, and you have a very good motorway system.
However most of our industry is realising that you can’t have retail alone, and that it has to be part of a wider leisure experience – it's about offering a destination. And although we were forward-thinking in that respect when we built Gunwharf Quays, ensuring we have the right dining and leisure brands is paramount to our success. Examples include our most recent additions: Jamie’s Italian and Carluccio’s.
All the people I've met in Portsmouth, whether from businesses, the council or local organisations, have a real spirit of wanting to move this city on, and move together, in a collective way. There's a real sense of energy and I am looking forward to seeing what the next few years bring, not only for Gunwharf Quays but for the city as a whole.
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A passion forPortsmouth Visitors flock to Portsmouth for the same reasons that people want to live, work and study in the city, says Drusilla Moody, who chairs the city's destination marketing partnership.
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ou could say Portsmouth is a city of twos.
There are two great ways to see the beautiful natural setting of the city – from Portsdown Hill to the north, or from the 170m Spinnaker Tower, which has three viewing decks with floor-to-ceiling windows, providing breath-taking panoramic views stretching up to 23 miles. The city's cultural heritage is dominated by two great writers – Charles Dickens, born in Portsmouth in 1812, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who worked as a doctor in Southsea while creating the Sherlock Holmes tales. We have two wonderful major theatres, dating from 1884 and 1907, and two beautiful cathedrals. And we have two huge wide-open spaces – the seafront and the green expanse of Southsea Common nearby. Many of our visitors choose to simply relax and enjoy the beach and the constantlychanging view of marine traffic on the Solent. There are very few places in the world where you can stand on the waterfront and see cruise-liners, naval ships, fishing boats, sailing yachts small and large, continental ferries, catamarans, hovercraft, rowing boats and many, many others.
We're not standing still as a destination... As an environment to work and live in, you can't beat it.
Let your mind go back to the days of HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, or HMS Warrior, Britain's first iron-hulled, armoured warship. Or stand on the ramparts of Southsea Castle and imagine the thoughts of Henry VIII as he stood there while the Mary Rose sank. You can visit Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and see HMS Warrior and HMS Victory for yourself, along with the new £35m Mary Rose Museum – a stunning modern building which reunites the hull of the Tudor battleship with many of the 19,000 artefacts also recovered from the seabed, showcased in six themed galleries. This is a truly mesmerising experience
As well as culture and seaside charm, Portsmouth is a great destination for shopping, from the designer outlet stores at Gunwharf Quays (see p26-27) and the major high street names in the city centre to the array of independent and vintage shops in Southsea. The city is not standing still. Portsmouth International Port is attracting more and more cruise visits. New coffee shops, independent restaurants and galleries are springing up. Triathlons are joining our established major sporting event, the Great South Run, on the calendar, and Portsmouth FC has a new lease of life as a true community club. We also have a new tennis centre to add to our portfolio of impressive sports facilities. There are bold plans for new developments, such as an arts and crafts quarter in historic Old Portsmouth, a hotel and conference centre at Clarence Pier, and the Northern Quarter scheme for the city centre (see 14-15). Destination Marketing Portsmouth has been set up to ensure that we maximise the city's potential. We will be working with our public and private-sector partners to continue to attract visitors to the city, and increase the numbers staying longer and spending more. By working together we will boost tourism and investment and become the destination of choice for both national and international visitors. Clockwise from top left: Drusilla Moody on HMS Warrior, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard; tall ship passing Round Tower; Mo Farah wins the Great South Run; view from Portsdown Hill; Gunwharf Quays; art on Southsea beach (picture: Dave Kirby).
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The Good Growth for Cities report placed Portsmouth in a list of the best cities in the UK in which to live and work. Source: PwC and Demos 2012
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With a showroom in London’s Mayfair and an international reputation, jewellery designer Barbara Tipple might have been tempted to move away. But she loves Portsmouth and the inspiration it brings.
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’ve had a shop in Southsea, Portsmouth, for more than 30 years. I mainly live in Southsea, spending half the week working at my shop in Albemarle Street, Mayfair.
I believe Southsea is the secret of the south – a wonderful place to live. It has everything – the real feel of a local community, even though it's in a city. And it's easy to commute to London: we have clients who have their weekend homes here. At the age of 21, in my second year at Hornsey art college in London, I won the prestigious Diamonds International Award. I went on to win it three more times, and then to be granted membership of the Diamonds International Academy. I work with my husband, David Ward, who's a master goldsmith, and all my jewellery is handmade in workshops attached to each shop. My clients range from the rich and famous to students looking for an engagement ring on a budget. Prices start at around £30, but to commission a very special piece the price is limitless . A very interesting recent commission was a large jewelled key for a client who was presenting a £1bn yacht to his wife. I love living here. Portsmouth is quite unique. The main thing for me is the seafront, which is phenomenal, with the view of the Isle of Wight. The harbour is very busy, with international ferries, sailing and fishing boats, and naval ships. We have great pubs on the edge of Spice Island where you can sit and watch all the activity. You can virtually touch the boats. It's a busy working port – the outstanding one in this country in my opinion. But although it's busy, there's always an amazing view or some history around the corner.
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I love living here. There's always an amazing view or some history around the corner.
My ideal day off would start with popping into the Garage Lounge café in Albert Road or the Southsea Coffee Company in Osborne Road. For lunch on the seafront, I'd go to the Pavilion Café at Southsea Tennis Club, and have a game of tennis, or maybe the Yellow Kite café in Southsea Castle, built by Henry VIII. For supper it would have to be the A Bar Bistro in Old Portsmouth. If I had my grandchild with me, I might go to the Blue Reef Aquarium. If not, I love to take my bike on the ferry to the Isle of Wight. Or I might stay in Southsea and ride along the seafront. My work includes figurative sea themes and wave forms, and stones reflecting water such as aquamarine and tourmaline. These things I grew up with and are part of me. As a child I would spend most of my free time on the beach, looking at the sea in all its moods. I'd look for pebbles with holes in them – they were the lucky ones. Years later, I picked one up and thought how much it was like a Barbara Hepworth sculpture. I cast it and made it into my Lucky Pebble pendant. I swear it works.
Pictures: Barbara Tipple at her Southsea shop, and some of her creations. Page 32 bottom right: Lucky Pebble pendants
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Sounds delicious Southsea, centre of Portsmouth's creative scene, is where quirky independent businesses thrive. And they don't come much quirkier than Pie & Vinyl, owned by Steve Courtnell and Rob Litchfield.
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Pictures: Rob Litchfield and views of Pie & Vinyl (images on right page by Dan Smyth).
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think we're the only place in the world selling pie and mash and records.
We got the idea when I was selling barbecues and Steve was working for EstĂŠe Lauder. We'd got to a stage in our lives where we thought that if we didn't do something now, we'd never do it. We'd always wanted to own a record shop, but we knew it wouldn't work on its own, the way the industry works today. We knew we'd have to add something different, and Steve came up with the idea of pie and mash. We offer an experience. Comfort food and records, surrounded by antiques. It's like being in your gran's house, remembering a time when things were a bit simpler. People seem to like what we're doing, and word of mouth has spread. We sell music released on vinyl in the last couple of years. These days you get download codes or CDs with records, so you get two formats for the price of one, which is helping to make vinyl more popular. I like to call it a resurgence rather than a revival. Vinyl is such a personal thing, and it's tangible. You have the artwork and you have to spend time with it. There's very much a place for downloads in the world, but you can't fall in love with one. At the end of the day, you're just pressing a button. We decided to fund the business ourselves. The whole thing was a risk, but if we hadn't done it, we'd still be in our office jobs. It's very early on, but we're in a healthy position, which is very surprising for a company of less than two years old. I think it comes down to the way we treat our customers. It was very important that we did this in Southsea, where we both live. There's a strong underground arts movement here and we're a part of that. It's very much a mini-Brighton, with a very strong vibe, and people will support you.
We decided to source as locally as we could. We serve pies from Buckwells butchers in Southsea, and we stock Portsmouth Tea, blended by another local firm, All About Tea. Our cakes are made locally too. Our demographic goes from 15 to 80. A mother and daughter came in the other day and saw a ration book I'd found at a car boot sale. It had belonged to the mother's mother, so I gave it to her. It was such a lovely experience. We're in Castle Road – a beautiful road that's steeped in history. Peter Sellers was born at one end, and Sherlock Holmes was created by Conan Doyle at the other end. It leads on to Southsea Common, which is like a huge garden. And we're by the sea, which brings out the creative side of many people. There's so much that Portsmouth has given the world. And there's so much potential here. If a business is looking for somewhere to locate, then it's important to get in now.
If a business is looking for somewhere to locate, then it's important to get in now.
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Their Avatar-style animation is already making waves in the movie business. Alex Counsell of Foam Digital says a Hollywood-quality feature film is next.
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’m principal technician at the University of Portsmouth’s school of creative technologies, and I also teach motion capture – where a live performance is used to create a computer-generated character, like Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films. We set up Foam Digital as a facility producing industry-standard digital animation. Our big project over the next few years is the film Stina and the Wolf, directed by Paul Charisse, who lectures in animation and worked as an animator on Gollum. He’s also worked on The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Stardust, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. We’ve done a seven-week shoot with actors from the university and a local school, capturing facial expressions, audio performances and physical performances, using the same techniques as Avatar or The Adventures of Tintin. They act out the film as if they were on a normal set, but they have skintight black and blue suits covered in ‘baubles’ – the markers used to track their movements. The film creates a world with the logic of a dream, and the digital animation helps to create an uncanniness about what you’re seeing: is it real or not real? We can produce visual effects of a quality that you see in the cinema or TV. Our dream is to get a full cinematic release, and the idea is that Foam will pitch for commercial work on the back of the film. But it will stay as a teaching project within the university. We talk to the industry a lot, and they say students come out of universities with great skills, but there are very specific processes they need to know. So another goal is to provide a real-world industry experience for the students.
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Foam has a structure similar to that of Weta Digital, which produced the digital effects for Lord of the Rings. The students only progress if their work hits the mark we set. We’ve had good feedback already that our students speak the language of the industry. Our industry contacts are over the moon that someone’s doing this at last – although they think we’re absolutely crazy. The university has provided around £54,000 for us to make a trailer for the film, and we’re using about £1/2m worth of software and hardware provided by sponsors. We know of only one university in the world doing what we’re doing, and that’s in China. And they’re not doing motion capture. We’re the only university making a full-length feature film of this calibre in the UK. We show people in the industry and they say: ‘Wow, how did you do that?’
More and more productions are coming back to the UK, because of the tax breaks – like the new Star Wars. Most graduates have to go to London to work in the industry, but it would be fantastic if there was a whole scene in Portsmouth, a culture of people working in this field. I see Foam as being a big part of making that scene happen. After all, Hollywood started somewhere...
We show people in the industry and they say: 'Wow, how did you do that?' Main picture: Alex Counsell in the Foam studio. Clockwise from bottom right: scene from Stina and the Wolf, Stina, actors equipped for motion-capture, Paul Charisse.
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Things are going on in Portsmouth. There’s a good feeling about the city at the moment.
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Pictures, clockwise from left: Henry Braithwaite on the MarketMakers office go-kart (picture by Mark Maguire); lake at 1000 Lakeside, where the company is based; Henry with MD Paul Thomas; Porsche showroom at 1000 Lakeside.
Life in the fast lane At Portsmouth telemarketing company MarketMakers they never take their foot off the gas. Fun is an essential part of their amazing success story, says operations director Henry Braithwaite.
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met Paul Thomas, the managing director, at school. We went to college together, and then straight out into work. At 21 we set up this business. We'd got to a point where we were both working in call centres and marketing services, and wanted to set up our own business. We thought: we'll go and do it ourselves. That was 10 years ago. Paul and I started off in his bedroom and my kitchen. We've had some great times, and we've managed to grow pretty much 40 per cent a year for the last seven years. Growth was even bigger in the early years. We have more than 300 staff and we're taking extra space at our offices, with another 50 seats. We're also opening an office in Atlanta. It's pretty full on. Last year we rose to 20th position on the Sunday Times list of the 100 best small companies to work for. Our clients include HSBC, Holiday Inn, Microsoft, Deloitte, Samsung and Toshiba. From the outset the business was ambitious and passionate. Businesses like that attract a certain kind of person. The more ambitious you are, the more ambitious people you get. Therefore, momentum is important. And we need to demonstrate big year-on-year growth, because if we can't grow our own business, then we can't grow our clients' businesses. The proof is in the pudding. This is a very lively and energetic business. Every Monday we get the entire company together outside my office and we vote for 'man of the match', or we 'knight' someone with my big broadsword if they've performed really
well. Sometimes we do a bit of karaoke or circuit training, or maybe tug-ofwar or go-kart racing. We have an incentive programme called Pimp my Desk, where you can choose an extra flat-screen monitor, an upgraded headset or a leather attaché case. For special achievements you can earn a nice suit or a Montblanc pen. Paul and I grew up in the area and we still live in the city. Ninety per cent of our staff live in a five or 10-mile radius. We do have a bit of a hub of call centres around here, in the greater Portsmouth area – insurance and outsourcing and financial services. So there's a good pool of talent for us – it's easy to find people locally. Portsmouth is in close proximity to London, which is important to most businesses, but it hasn't got London costs. The recruitment pool is very good, and its location is attractive too. If people are enjoying the city life we've got it here, and if they're looking to move out of the city life, for the countryside or the sea, you can tick those boxes. I'm always saying to people that things are going on in Portsmouth. When our clients come in from across the country, they see this building (1000 Lakeside, see p42-43), the Porsche dealership nearby and other developments. There's a good feeling about the city at the moment.
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Cleaning up They're in military helicopters as well as home printers. They help produce both beer and diesel. Products from the Pall Corporation are everywhere in today's world, says Huw Chapman, MD for Pall Europe.
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Pictures: below, Huw Chapman. Other pictures: applications for Pall products. Clockwise from bottom right: pathogen removal, military helicopters, hospital patient protection, biopharmaceuticals. Main picture: integrated circuits.
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e're often called 'the original clean technology company', because we're in the business of filtration, separation and purification.
The UK is the largest employer of Pall staff in Europe, and we've centralised a lot of our core activities here in Portsmouth, where we have 600–700 people.
We trade business to business, in all kinds of sectors.
Our operation here is a really important strategic technological hub. The company has been here since the 1960s, when it employed ex-dockyard workers who had the right specialised skills. In our factory today we still employ those kinds of skills.
If you see a beer described as 'cold-filtered', resulting in a better flavour, there's a good chance that it's been through a Pall product. And about 30% of European wine is filtered through Pall membranes. In hospitals, we make breathing filters for patients, and a big growth market for us is water filters, which protect against bacterial contaminants like legionella. We also supply the pharmaceuticals industry, making a whole range of solutions involved in drug production. We're involved in oil production and exploration, right through to manufacturing the final polymer. We also supply devices to remove water from fluids like diesel, to get purer fuel for your car. A lot of the gas imported to the UK also goes through Pall products, to remove liquids. We sell filters for use in hydraulic systems in paper and steel mills. And we filter paint for cars, to improve corrosion protection.
There's a global research and development centre for life sciences here in Portsmouth. And we also have an aerospace engineering centre here. That's the kind of commitment we've put into the city. The effort the city council is making to get local businesses to engage with the regeneration of the city, under the Shaping the Future of Portsmouth banner, is brilliant. I think that blend of business leaders and council people does create a more entrepreneurial approach, which without a shadow of a doubt will achieve growth. Public sector and business people learn from each other, and you get checks and balances. People come away from meetings with a totally different perspective on how to do things. What's going on in Portsmouth is really positive.
We filter the water, gas and chemicals used in the manufacture of silicon chips, to ensure there are no contaminants that could cause short-circuits. That's a particularly arduous process. We also supply to makers of ink-jet printers. In your printer at home, there are tiny filters in the cartridges, and it’s possible they were supplied by us. We also filter the ink that's sprayed on eggs, to mark them with a use-by date. We make filters for air intakes on helicopters, including for the military. Many western passenger aircraft you fly in will have our filters too. The same technology is also used in Formula 1 cars.
I think that blend of business leaders and council people does create a more entrepreneurial approach, which without a shadow of a doubt will achieve growth.
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Out of this world location Daleks once ruled at Lakeside North Harbour. Now it’s one of the country’s most stunning business locations. Nick Turner of Highcross is the man dealing with a queue of companies wanting to locate there.
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t's a little-known fact that in 1985 the BBC filmed Dr Who here, when they needed a location for the Daleks' base. That was when Lakeside was occupied totally by IBM, as their UK headquarters. IBM are still based here, and they still occupy a major part of the site, but they sold it to Highcross in 2005. We took over the main building, 1000 Lakeside, two years later. We spent a year refurbishing it, including adding our spectacular, full-height atrium, and started marketing it to potential occupiers in 2008. It’s been fantastic. We had a slowish start because of the economic situation, but in the last few years we've been doing very well. Now there are 2,000 people and 70 businesses based in 1000 Lakeside alone. It's one of the largest single buildings of its type in the UK – 270,000 sq ft – and we have more than 88% occupancy. The site is 130 acres in total – the biggest location owned by Highcross. On the site we have a hair salon, a florist, a Co-op store (the Southern Cooperative are one of the occupiers at 1000 Lakeside), a beauty salon, a day nursery, a Starbucks and a Subway. These employee facilities, added to the critical mass of major companies we have here, have certainly helped us sell the space. Porsche has a showroom on the site, and soon there will be a De Vere Village Urban Resort, with a 124-bedroom hotel, a fitness centre, conference facilities and dining. We're planning a medical centre too. The appeal for businesses is the quality of the space and the office accommodation, and the landscaped environment, which people find very attractive. We even have a guy who leads wildlife walks around the site for us once a week. Local artists exhibit their work in the corridors and the atrium. We have a shuttle bus to the rail station, which is nearby, and good parking, plus an on-site management team. More and more people cycle in – we can hardly keep up with the demand for bike parking.
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We're growing because people want to locate here – they can see companies doing business here. Most of the demand we have is from local companies, growing or wanting to relocate. But Capita, for instance, consolidated offices from elsewhere in the country and moved them here, because it suited their workforce and their operation. I think one of the reasons businesses want to locate in Portsmouth is the quality of the workforce. There are some very impressive major employers in the city, like Astrium, IBM and the Pall Corporation, so there are some pretty highly-skilled people. It's got good road and transport links too – you can get around the country easily from here. And being a waterfront city, there's a good lifestyle. If you don't like spending a lot of time on the water, then just inland there are the South Downs. People working here like playing sport. And of course, they're into Portsmouth FC. It's got a good quality of life.
One of the reasons businesses want to locate in Portsmouth is the quality of the workforce.
Clockwise from top left: atrium at 1000 Lakeside, part of the grounds, Nick Turner, Highcross asset management director.
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As the home of Charles Dickens, Sherlock Holmes, HMS Victory and the Mary Rose, Portsmouth has a rich heritage to draw on. But Britain's only island city is looking to the future, building on unique strengths.
It is an entrepreneurial organisation itself – successfully running Portsmouth International Port and leading many of the boldest investment projects in the city. It welcomes business andD O R S E T understands its needs.
As you can see in these pages, ambitious regeneration projects are under way. These include a new motorway junction and park-andride – opening up huge areas at the gateway to the city – and a bold redevelopment plan for the central retail area. Iconic high-rise buildings, including new hotels, are planned as companions on the skyline for the Spinnaker Tower.
We are already showing what can be achieved when public and private sectors join together with imagination, vision and a determination to rise above any perceived differences.
A unique partnership between public and private sectors is behind this regeneration drive. The council has joined 70 major private companies and public bodies to form the Shaping the Future of Portsmouth group, pledged to support economic growth, innovation and enterprise in the city, and enhance its competitiveness. A key theme is equipping residents – especially the workers of the future – with the skills they will need to benefit from new opportunities in our high-tech sectors. Portsmouth City Council is different from many other local authorities in its economic approach.
In this publication we have tried to show just some of the impressive businesses finding success in Portsmouth, from small creative firms to major global players. We invite you to join them, and discover how you and your business can benefit from the exciting new opportunities and growth in our city. We look forward to hearing from you.
Cllr Donna Jones, Leader, Portsmouth City Council
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