Peel Holdings
The developer of The Trafford Centre - Peel Holdings – is the largest privately owned landowner in the north west with assets valued at over £5.5 billion and The Trafford Centre is the jewel in the Peel portfolio of assets.
Peel Holdings has a UK property investment and land portfolio consisting of over nine million square feet of investment property and 27,000 acres of land, in addition to overseas investments.
The company has extensive and growing interests in transport. Peel Ports Division operates the ports of the Manchester Ship Canal, which carries over 7 million tonnes of freight per annum, and Clydeport – Scotland’s only major west coast intercontinental and Atlantic facing port - which handles approximately 16 million tonnes per annum. The Ports division also owns extensive property investment and land assets including the Glasgow Harbour development, one of the largest in the UK with an end value of over £500m.
In 2008, the Peel group donated £1million to The New Children's Hospital Appeal. The New Children’s Hospital Appeal aims to raise £20 million to support projects within the new hospital and Peel has pledged to raise further funds with fundraising across the group.
Peel Airports
Peel Airports comprises Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Durham Tees Valley Airport and Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield.
Liverpool John Lennon Airport is one of Europe’s fastest growing regional airports carrying over three million passengers per annum. Teesside Airport is undergoing a £30 million investment programme to improve facilities in order to attract new airlines and additional passengers. Development is underway at Doncaster Finningley to convert the former RAF airfield into a commercial airport capable of handling approximately two million passengers per annum and 50,000 tonnes of freight by 2014. The first flights are due to commence in 2005.
Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, the UK's newest purpose built international Airport, is built on the site of a former Royal Air Force airbase, RAF Finningley (world famous for its military air displays). Located in the heart of Yorkshire, within an hour’s drive time of key towns and cities including Doncaster, Sheffield, Hull, Leeds, York, Lincoln and Nottingham, the airport already welcomes over 1 million passengers annually through its terminal and offers flights to over 40 destinations across the world.
Durham Tees Valley Airport is one of the best-known airports in the north of England, serving over 700,000 passengers every year. Situated just 10 miles west of Middlesbrough and 24 miles south of Durham, Durham Tees Valley Airport serves key business destinations such as Aberdeen and Dublin, along with worldwide connecting flights through London Heathrow and Amsterdam, everywhere is in easy reach. Durham Tees Valley offers passengers a great choice of retail and catering outlets and serves more than 20 popular holiday destinations direct.
New developments
Gloucester Quays is one of the largest mixed use waterside regeneration developments in the UK. Gloucester Quays is a 60 acre £400 million development which started on site in 2005 with a new college. When complete, Gloucester Quays will provide over 150,000 sq m (1.6 million sq ft) of floorspace and includes a designer outlet offering top brand fashion and homeware items at discounted prices, waterfront bars, cafes and restaurants, leisure facilities, two hotels and office space.
Ocean Gateway is the name given to Peel’s proposed £50 billion investment strategy for the north west to be phased over the next few decades. The concept stretches over 50 miles encompassing the north west’s two great cities of Manchester and Liverpool and is the largest private sector investment in any geographically definable part of the UK.
Peel’s vision is to establish the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal corridor as a key source of new jobs, investment, development and environmental improvements between Manchester and Liverpool. Proposed developments include Liverpool Waters and Wirral Waters, MediaCityUK, Trafford Quays and Port Warrington.