Lewisham is recruiting a pop-up shop manager and a street market coordinator to deliver the Portas scheme - both with very tight timeframes for applying. See http://www.see3.co.uk for more details.
In terms of what these jobs aim to deliver, there's some useful stuff in the job application forms - such as the timeframe for delivering the pop up shops, and also how many markets the Portas Scheme aims to fund.
Have a look, and pass the details on to anyone who might want to apply.
Want to help deliver Sydenham’s Portas scheme?
Re: Want to help deliver Sydenham’s Portas scheme?
One thing which struck me reading the scoping documents for these posts was this:
According to an Excel workbook maintained by our previous Town Centre Manager, there are c. 700 retail properties in Sydenham, Forest Hill, Honor Oak and Brockley, but with few details on landlords. However, it costs only £3 to obtain this information from the Land Registry, so I would think a first step should be to invest an amount up to just over £2,000 in collecting this official information.
There will be much more to it than this, e.g. how to keep this information up to date, and what sort of restrictions on its use were imposed by the license under which the Land Registry would supply this data. To which end I have just emailed 'copyright@landregistry.gov.uk' as follows:
Source here2.15 The high street also suffers from the disengagement and negligence of some landlords in improving their units. This is further exacerbated by the difficulty in obtaining information about who owns or rents particular units or in contacting absent landlords.
According to an Excel workbook maintained by our previous Town Centre Manager, there are c. 700 retail properties in Sydenham, Forest Hill, Honor Oak and Brockley, but with few details on landlords. However, it costs only £3 to obtain this information from the Land Registry, so I would think a first step should be to invest an amount up to just over £2,000 in collecting this official information.
There will be much more to it than this, e.g. how to keep this information up to date, and what sort of restrictions on its use were imposed by the license under which the Land Registry would supply this data. To which end I have just emailed 'copyright@landregistry.gov.uk' as follows:
Dear Sirs:
I would like to know what the approach of the Land Registry would be to licencing its information for use by an organisation set up for a community purpose, e.g. the regeneration of a local High Street. The context for this request is a ‘Portas Pilot’ project supported by my local council (LB Lewisham) – ‘SEE3’ – which has identified a problem:
I am sure I am not the only one on the Forum who would like to help the SEE3 team in this way.
The ultimate aim would be a database of such information get up to date both from ‘crowd sourced’ information – e.g. threads such as this ‘New Openings, New Closings’on a local web Forum - and official information public domain but still copyright information such as yours.
Your general advice would be invaluable, and even more any similar uses of your data.
Tim Lund
cc. Petra Marshall, LB Lewisham / SEE3
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Darned right. Better still, it would be helpful to have also have a list of all expiring tenancy dates of the existing leaseholders. That way we could proactively plan to canvas new investors, to ensure properties were not standing empty too long (or at all).
I'm not sure that kind of information would be included on the Land Registry database - but if it is, then it would be useful to collect.
Of course, that does sound like doing estate agents' and landlords' jobs for them - but at least drumming up interest from prospective tenants means we could pro-actively shape who comes to Sydenham, rather than simply trying to stop the undesirables at the planning stage.
I'm not sure that kind of information would be included on the Land Registry database - but if it is, then it would be useful to collect.
Of course, that does sound like doing estate agents' and landlords' jobs for them - but at least drumming up interest from prospective tenants means we could pro-actively shape who comes to Sydenham, rather than simply trying to stop the undesirables at the planning stage.
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I will be forwarding this to Petra Marshall, LB Lewisham / SEE3, and hope to be able to keep readers of this Forum posted of any progress.Land Registry, Legal Services Group wrote:Dear Mr Lund
Thank you for your enquiry about the reuse of Land Registry information. In principle, we would be sympathetic to the proposed licencing of our information by a community-based organisation. We might, for example, waive charges, but ask that you observe conditions around the manipulation of Land Registry data, while maintaining its veracity.
However, we would require full details of the information you want to use, and how you intend to use it, before we give our full consent.
However, if nothing transpires, I would be happy to work with any commercial business with good community links and knowlege of the local propery market to progress this, with the information being distributed under any terms the Land Registry imposes. The upside for such a commercial partner would be (1) being seen to support the community in this way and linked opportunities for promoting itself, and (2) being ahead of competitors in thinking through how to make use of such information.