Leicester: Jaspal Singh Minhas President of LABA today announced a major scoping project for developers, site owners along with manufacturers in partnership with GVA Property Consultants based out of Birmingham. “The scoping exercise” said Jaspal “will include all the key sites in Leicestershire that have the potential to be developed either for business development and expansion or for inward investment and job creation opportunities. The scoping report will be used to have a strategic dialogue with the potential investors and private equity houses, Leicestershire Economic Partnership, the County Council, City Council and the District Councils, along with key government departments, ministers and members of parliament. Along withthe potential to engage with the European Structural Fund support”.
LABA’s aspiration remains to promote Leicestershire as a value-for-money destination for inward investment for companies in food and drink manufacturing, high end textile design and manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and high value engineering and distribution.
The project is led by Uday Dholakia chairman of LABA and Nick Harrison, Director with GVA Property Consultants.
Nick is a Director in GVA’s Planning, Development and Regeneration team, based in Birmingham. He joined the firm in 2003, and has a background in local authority development management. Commercially aware, as well as technically astute, Nick provides expert advice to a range of high profile public and private sector clients, primarily in the residential, commercial, healthcare and defence sectors. Key areas of work include complex public sector asset planning and estate strategy advisory work; planning appraisals and feasibility; urban regeneration; major developments; strategic land promotion; master planning; community engagement; and environmental impact assessment.
Clients include Birmingham City Council, Decathlon, British Land Company, Ballymore Properties, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, QinetiQ, Legal and General, Wycombe District Council, and the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs.
For further information on participating in the scoping exercise please contact uday@labauk.org
