54 PROPERTY CONFERENCE


OUT OF OFFICE SIGNS GROW


Emily Handslip is commercial director of regeneration expert and development specialist Urban Splash, best known for its work bringing decaying industrial warehouses and mills back to life


We have dealt with our office occupiers on a case-by-case basis during the pandemic. We formed a support team that has been there 24/7 for all our customers.


It is about landlords and occupiers working  


 pandemic meant what was going to happen 


We’d seen break out spaces, coffee shops on 


 from home, go back to work, work from home if you can’, has scuppered any chance of medium  


  


 are going to play an even more important role 


We will continue to look at what we need to put into our spaces to make them safer,


PANEL 2 OFFICES


David Cox Antony Chesworth, CEO of EKM Stephen Young, executive director of growth at Lancashire County Council Caroline James


CAROLINE JAMES


SMEs in particular have big decisions to make moving forward when it comes to what   working from home, or a mix?


 younger people, which have traditionally 


  


A number of public sector buildings in town centres may have potential for residential opportunities and we’re seeing several  


ANTONY CHESWORTH


 little white box with four walls and a brew  


 


If you want people to love what they do and produce, you have to provide them a nice place, not the cheapest, nastiest, because  Look after your people, they’ll look after your 


STEPHEN YOUNG


 more agile workforce, people with the tech  


Some challenges are emerging over people   


  we need to look at that as part of our estate  


What we don’t want is to move out of 


DAVID COX


   social side of the offering has seen break-out 


Most employers now see the social value of providing a much more interesting range 


 uncertainty and with Covid and Brexit we 


 hit is hospitality, those that are going to be  is going to be one of the really big movers  to be looking at a whole range of physical  


Emily Handslip


It is in a business park with fantastic public  


It is about acting to make people feel secure and


better and more spacious, adapting them to 


We’ve seen occupancy in one of our buildings near Liverpool rise 10 per cent to a level it has 





 be more of a social hub, a place for training and  


  space needs to be inspirational: a reason to go 


We’re putting a mix into buildings, with 


 


Customer care is also going to be ever 


Commercial landlords are going to have to be very people focused and I believe that is the 


   


 


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