Retail & Hospitality

19 November 2024

The Future of London's Hotels

Toby Osbourn, Senior Surveyor at Gerald Eve, reflects on our Retrofit First event, which delves into the transformative impact of hotel retrofits and adaptive reuse in London.

Retail & Hospitality

11 November 2024

The age of experience

The hospitality industry is embracing the 'age of experience' with the aim of creating purposeful and meaningful places, Maliha Haque of LOM architecture and design writes.

Retail & Hospitality

21 November 2023

Ground-Floor Activation: Repurposing Retail

How do we activate ground-floors and craft vibrant streets for the long-term? Join NLA to explore innovative strategies creating multi-functional, resilient buildings and places.

Retail & Hospitality

24 October 2023

Ground floor activation

Ahead of our 'Ground-Floor Activation: Repurposing Retail' event, Emma Holt of Ben Adams Architects explores harnessing the transformative potential of Graphite Square.

Retail & Hospitality

22 May 2023

High Streets Expert Panel

James Mitchell of Axion Architects reports from the latest High Streets Expert Panel meeting, discussing National and International, Inner London and Outer London.

Retail & Hospitality

25 April 2023

Health on the High Street

The high street is everchanging, but can it also adapt to integrate essential health and wellbeing facilities? Polly Barker of tp bennett reflects on our latest webinar.

Retail & Hospitality

14 February 2023

London’s hotels: accommodating new demands

As the dust begins to settle on a sector that has seen extreme challenges, what does the future hold for London’s hotel and hospitality sector? James Mitchell, Axiom Architects reports.

Retail & Hospitality

04 October 2022

Five minutes with... Tom Whittington

David Taylor catches up with Savills’ retail and leisure research director Tom Whittington to talk through the findings of the firm’s new Re:Imagining Retail report.

Retail & Hospitality

24 August 2022

A year in summary: Retail & Hospitality

As we wrap up the latest cycle of NLA Expert Panels, James Mitchell summarises strategic areas from the Retail & Hospitality Expert Panel that they will take forward into the next cycle.

Retail & Hospitality, Technical

11 February 2022

Trusses, ‘good citizenry’, and creating the right culture

The building team behind One Crown Place explained the main highlights and technical aspects of the mixed use scheme at an NLA Project in Practice last week

Retail & Hospitality

24 August 2021

The longevity of local: Creating a diverse, mixed and resilient future for our high streets

The past 18 months has created turmoil for our city centres and local high streets but now is the opportunity to learn from the impact of the pandemic and the increased focus on local and community-or...

Retail & Hospitality

17 May 2021

BIDs ponder ‘reset’ and new central London coalition

BIDs are approaching 20 years old – could the time be right for a rethink to claim more powers through pooling resources?

Retail & Hospitality

10 May 2021

Five Minutes With…Anthea Harries

David Taylor quizzes Argent’s Head of Assets Anthea Harries about what the NLA’s decision to set up its residency at King’s Cross means for the estate, what the secrets of regeneration success are… an...

Retail & Hospitality

23 April 2021

Flexibility and partnerships on changing high streets

What does genuine flexibility mean when it comes to use classes, space, funding and leasing models? The NLA Expert Panel on Retail and Hospitality met up to discuss the meaning of flexibility for reta...

Retail & Hospitality

01 April 2021

High Streets glimpse post-Covid future

The high streets of the future will need to fully embrace charities, artists and other experiences if they are to survive and prosper following the major injuries they have sustained during the pandem...

Retail & Hospitality

03 March 2021

Our town centres are tomorrow’s places to live

As the way we live and work continues to change, it’s time to focus on repurposing town centres and making them fit for the future, says David Cowans, Places for People Group Chief Executive.

Retail & Hospitality

04 February 2021

The repurposing agenda: how do we reimagine our retail spaces for the future?

The launch of the latest edition of Savills' Re:Imagining Retail explores how we can deliver sustainable repurposing to create towns and shopping centres that are future proof, green, offer solid inve...

Retail & Hospitality

21 January 2021

Adapting Retail and Hospitality

On Monday 18 January 2021, the first meeting of the NLA Expert Panel on Retail and Hospitality was held. Discussion centred around the impact on the COVID-19 pandemic and how retail and hospitality ha...

Retail & Hospitality

07 January 2021

Collaboration the key on Regent Street renewal

The professionals and organisations behind the transformation of Regent Street have hailed their close collaborative working as the secret of success in getting the temporary project – with 5,000m2 of...

Retail & Hospitality

13 November 2020

Making The Cut at New Marlborough Yard

Whitbread Acquisition Manager Jonathan Langdon reviews the new Premier Inn building that the company has brought to the New Marlborough Yard development off the Cut, a scheme which challenges percepti...

Retail & Hospitality

03 July 2020

From the archive: Retail

How things can change! Only in 2007 our studies on retail reported that the GLA was forecasting a growth in retail spend and called for more development across the capital.

Retail & Hospitality

29 May 2020

NLA comment: the future of retail in the post-COVID environment

A quote from Mike Tyson, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face”, was the powerful introductory slide to the presentation by Argent’s James Raynor at the NLA’s NYLON webinar this wee...

Retail & Hospitality

07 May 2020

London’s high streets: life has never been normal

Gort Scott’s Fiona Scott argues that COVID-19 should be seen as a ‘circuit breaker’ to free us from the notion of value only as commercial uplift, and that healthy high streets are an essential part o...

Retail & Hospitality

06 December 2019

Hotels must forge connections with local communities

London’s hotels should concentrate on forging connections with their local communities – becoming the ‘pubs’ of their areas – if they are to thrive and prosper and in turn help high streets where reta...