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From: Jeff Nash To: Phil Cresswell; Daniel Jellyman; Lorraine Beardmore Subject: Events at Potbank and the Quarter - private and confidential Date: 27 July 2020 11:10:37

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The outside events we are running at Potbank are becoming very popular. Because of the space we have we are able to run these exceeding guidelines on social distancing and there is proving to be a really great demand from Artists who have very limited opportunities to play and earn a living. In addition to the acoustic music events we held a comedy night on Saturday which sold out and went well. We have more requests from Artists that we have spaces to put them on and also have enquiries to put on dance, open air theatre and children’s events. Whilst there is a lack of other suitable facilities in the city available we would like to expand our operation to allow for more events whilst keeping the numbers and security under control. The various facilities like the segregated pods have also been useful in encouraging people with concerns to venture out.

Our big problem with these events is how to manage the bad weather. We have erected makeshift shelters and so far we have avoided allocating any seats inside for events to hold this back as shelter for people to come inside if the weather is really bad. However managing the social distancing becomes more challenging (even though we are keeping numbers 100 less than our inside fire limits). Currently we can not carry on the entertainment inside and even when this does become possible on August 1st, we do not think we can set this up in way that will allow the capacity to work at a viable level and maintain social distancing.

We would like to make an arrangement with you to set up the section of the Meadows warehouse adjacent to Potbank as an alternative wet weather location for the outside events. The regulations/guidance governing indoor events is yet to be published but the space in the warehouse is more than sufficient to allow for a audience of 150 with over 2m between bubbles and a clear 3m zone around performers on a stage. If we used this space we would keep the rear roller shutter doors open to improve ventilation and run a one way system in and out of the door to Potbank and the side entrance. The areas being used for the Open Door charity and archaeology projects can be sectioned off with Harass fencing. Because of the opening of the roller shutters and with three other exits there would be more than sufficient fire exits to allow the fire exit towards the terrace (where the archaeology and open door are) to be sealed off – we would submit a fire risk assessment for this approach. All power and event lighting can be set up from Potbank. All other facilities required, toilets, bar, food etc would be in Potbank accessed via a one system. With the vast well ventilated spaces of the Meadows we can keep our audiences dry and socially distanced - although wherever possible we would put on events outside as we think this is a marginally more Covid secure approach. Attached is a bit of early evening footage from Friday which gives you and idea of how the events set up with the Artists socially distanced and the audience set up in seated social bubbles https://twitter.com/HotelPotbank/status/1287457843038302213?s=20

If we have this wet weather set up giving us certainty with a Covid secure approach whatever the weather, we can invest far more in these events and expand to include other arts like dance, theatre, children’s events etc. over the summer and comedy. With the big venues closed and the smaller ones likely to struggle with social distancing when events come inside there are very limited opportunities to performers, particularly the grass roots local artists. Many of these artists have fallen between the cracks of government support and some of the well known companies like Claybody, the comedy clubs etc face very real threats to their future. I hope we are able to find a way to use this space with you. I am sure there will be some good PR in it and it will help to keep a part of the local cultural scene alive until more venues are able to reopen.

If we are able to do this our proposal would be that we move to running events Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon. All events would be limited to seated (2m+) socially distanced audiences of a maximum of 150 (the meadows has accommodated 250 for the Claybody and Potbank’s stand alone inside capacity is 250. We would run the events primarily after 4pm to avoid clashes with the Museum if they are open and finish by 9pm – this is so as not to disturb hotel guests and avoid the management problems of later night activities. We would propose to staff and pay for security at the main Spode Elenora street gate to restrict admissions when we are open.

The entire venue will operate to strict Covid secure guidelines with a comprehensive one way system made possible by the additional space and the internal link between Potbank and the Meadows.

With this additional flexibility we will also be able to host events with local cultural organisations including BArts, Appetite, Hubb and other charities and Claybody and this will also allow us to organise some events aimed at families and children. This also may be an opportunity for the council to become involved in these types of events.

As you probably know inside events are permitted from 1 August and we will need to analyse the guidelines as these emerge. The weather for this weekend looks very nice so I doubt we would use the inside space until at least the 7th August. On or around that date we are going to announce that the events and hospitality business is being taken over by Section 43 (commercial interest . This is something we have been talking to them about long before the lockdown. We wanted to develop the evening and lunchtime business more towards a public restaurant than private party type events (although we will still do these on a more selective basis). To change this strategy we needed a strong local brand to develop the trade and Section 43 (commercial interes fitted this bill perfectly (and even post lockdown have proved that they haven’t enough capacity Section 43 (commercial interests – Section 43 (commercial interests) ). This tie up will be major news in the local hospitality sector fusing two very prominent brands – this will also involve both us and Section 4 Section 43 (commer making major investments in Potbank. This will be a great boost of confidence for the sector locally and we will also create quite a few jobs in Stoke Town and grass roots cultural scene as a result. Both us and Section 43 (commercial interest are keen to carry on with the outdoor programme following the takeover – it would be really great if we could also tie in the temporary use of the warehouse to allow us to expand this Covid secure entertainment offer into these announcements.

Can you let me know if the council is willing to help us with the Meadows. If this is something you are willing to do, we can work up a more detailed proposal and event management plan, risk assessments etc.

Thanks,

Jeff Nash From: Jeff Nash To: Lorraine Beardmore Subject: Potbank Date: 14 July 2020 13:44:48

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Hi Lorraine, you have probably seen on social media that we wasted no time in getting some live events going at Potbank after this was permitted on Saturday. Our outside spaces set up really well for this and with indoor events currently not permitted we are going to start a regular programme. We have one of the best outside spaces to put on small outdoor acoustic events to a seated socially distanced audience in the city and the Spode setting makes a great backdrop for this.

The event we did on Saturday really got a great reaction both from the audience and the performers (most of whom have had no work for months and who are truly fed up with performing to animated thumbs on FB live). So we have been inundated with requests to play and watch.

Phil and his team have been flexible about us using a few of the car parking spaces to spread out into (which was made easier following the Governments Al fresco changes to the planning and licensing requirements). This enabled us to do Saturdays event without a single customer inside, which is what the Government were trying to encourage. Having experimented on this for a couple of weeks we have decided to run (weather permitting) outside events throughout the summer on Friday and Saturday. This will continue from this weekend with acoustic music and the following weekend with a comedy night (comedians will not be permitted to play inside for some time and need some work). As the cabinet member for culture you might want to come along or use this for some good PR. Without the council’s help with a little bit of extra space it would be very difficult for us to manage the social distancing and the one way system etc. we have in place so you should take credit for that and helping some of the city’s live performers start to get their livelihoods back.

Let me know if you want to pop down and see how we are helping the city’s cultural scene come back to life. We will also probably do some PR on this if you want to be involved (I will contact the Council’s media team as this comes up). BTW the comedy night on Sat 25th July will be a very hot ticket if you would like to go let me know (this will sell out in minutes). All our events will be early evening and scheduled to finish around 9pm as we do not want to disturb the neighbours or our hotel guests. We actually feel a better audience is possible at that time as people are more cautious about venturing out in latter part of the evening when managing social distancing becomes more challenging.

On the hotels, you might be interested to know that we are already back at (and above) pre lockdown levels already with all our staff now off of furlough. I think this is more to do with the appeal of aparthotels in this Covid environment than a reflection of underlying demand but we had quite a lot of people travelling into the area for Alton Towers at the weekend so there are some general signs of life.

Let me know if you want to do anything around our outdoor events.

Thanks,

Jeff

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From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 06 July 2020 06:45 To: Phil Cresswell; Daniel Jellyman; Abi Brown Subject: Section 41 (provided in confid

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I presume, as you are all in the same condidentiality bubble as us on this, that you know Section 41 (provided in confidenc) . We are finalising the accommodation etc this week and Section 41 (provided in confidenc)

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Our problem is that coming out of lockdown demand for the aparthotels is very high - we expect both hotels to be full this week now we have openend up and some of the keyworker demand is running over. Section 41 (provided in confidenc)

We still have an option to use rooms at Q studios that are self contained and I would like to see if we could get a planning exemption to use theseSection 41 (provided in confidenc) but then Section 41 (provided in confidenc) . Section 41 (provided in confidenc)

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This waiver would also help out that business which is in financial meldown which is not good for the city.

We need a very quick response on this as we want to finalise Section 41 (provided in confidenc)

Can you let me know if the Council would be prepared to help everyone out with this - it is principally a planning issue as everyone else has the capacity to deal with this in this way.

Obviously all these things are very important for us, Spode Works and the city. So I hope we can work together to find the best solution.

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Phil, I will write tou you seperately about the weekend/markets etc. This went well. We had no major issues. We would like to do more Section 41 (provided in confidenc) but would set up differently. We learned a lot just on Saturday!

Thanks

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Thanks Phil. Section 40 (personal information) continued to work as all our hotel and student facilities have remained open.

Given Section 40 (personal information) our customers, I’m proud that our social distancing, cleaning etc. protocols have so far kept all our staff safe as they continued working supporting our two hotels for use by keyworkers and the vulnerable and our student residences where most of our tenants Section 40 (personal information) Dealing with people in the front line we have seen the worst of this disease, and also some of the best of the people who have been putting themselves (and their families) at risk in fighting with it.

We were really hoping we could get our small Potbank scheme underway as something positive to move the business forward with and bring our construction partners back to work, so it was very frustrating that this could not happen. In the meantime, to keep the scheme alive, we have helped Section 43 (commercial interests)

. Because of the move of so much activity online, the media studio we proposed for Spode would have been in high demand – it’s a shame we could not make this work and have this activity at Spode.

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Having done all this, and secured our anchor tenant, we have now putSec ion 43 (commercial interests) by which time we will hopefully have dealt with all the council and planning red tape. Section 43 (commercial interests) . In the meantime, we are focusing our development efforts elsewhere and getting ready to reopen to the public in July.

If you are moving forward with a sales effort for other buildings on the site, activity from ourselves in terms of new development and getting open again will help you. We really think it will be positive for Spode if we can reopen with access to additional space both for markets and our café etc. particularly whilst the museum is closed. You may have seen on we are playing around with some ideas to use the outside space with enhanced social distancing measures (using physical barriers to separate groups and marshal one way traffic).

I expect the first phase of leisure opening in July may well be outdoors only, I think it is vital that the council adopt a flexible approach to allowing venues to temporarily use space the council own or control. I saw in the paper this morning that the government is bringing forward temporary measures to remove the planning and licensing red tape to allow this to happen. They will need to do this particularly if it’s an outside first restart. The areas adjacent to Potbank (particularly whilst the Museum is closed) are well suited to this and we are prepared to invest in the furniture etc. but need time to do this. If we open up successfully it will enhance the value of your wider site and will also generate some P&D revenue for the council on the Elenora St car park. So far having made the request 2 weeks ago, we haven’t even received an in principle decision.

We remain interested in several parts of the site (subject to our current proposal being completed first and probably some further clarity in respect of the local plan – Section 43 (commercial interests) ). We are happy to pursue this via Mounsey or deal with you directly.

Summarising I would like a call to deal with:

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Looking forward to discussing all this and getting things moving again at Spode.

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Phil Cresswell Sent: 06 June 2020 08:50 To: Section 40 (personal information) Cc: Julian Lythgoe ; Mark Connell ; Dawn Barlow ; Richard Chadwick ; Harmesh Jassal ; Zoe Groom ; Daniel Jellyman Subject: Dog & Bone Projects Limited - Premises adjoining The Meadows

Jeff

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I have added some specific points to your original as below.

Julian and I will set up a teams call with you over the next two weeks.

Best

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, Daniel Jellyman Cc: Julian Lythgoe , Dawn Barlow , Ash Subject: RE: Dog & Bone Projects Limited - Premises adjoining The Meadows

Dan, Phil, thank you for your emails on this. It is a real shame that this will now be dragged out past September, currently we have tenants lined up for this development and LEP and equity funding in place. As a small site renovation it would have been relatively straightforward to manage social distancing and we would have liked to have got our development programme started with this after the lockdown. With this and the (predictable) glacial progress from planning, I doubt whether this will now allow us to get this development underway this year. These delays have cost local jobs and set back the momentum on our project.

The authority is dealing with the pandemic as a priority, the infection rate in Stoke on Trent has steadied but there may be a second wave something we are mindful of, as a result a lot of Cabinet decisions will be pushed back for non critical business, and by that I mean anything non people related will be reviewed closely such that we prioritise what Cabinet reviews save for resources; some deals and property and place based infrastructure reports have slipped, others deferred until September.

We are keen to carry out this expansion of Potbank as soon as possible so we will continue with the planning application whilst we wait for the council to go through your approval process. Please let me know if you need any documentation from us in support of this. Once we have the approvals, we will have to see whether the prospective tenants were prepared to wait. In the meantime we will be focusing our investment activity elsewhere and seek to have our LEP funding reallocated to other projects.

Just to be clear Jeff, you have been awarded the LEP funding based on this site, the LEP will consult with the City Council, if this is your decision I will write to the Chair of the LEP separately with my view of this, so please confirm. I will ask Section 40 (personal informa to contact you such that the application can progress.

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This aspect Julian and I will pick up with you on our call which we will schedule as quickly as possible.

Are transactions through Mounsey approved by the full council and, if so, why don’t you just delegate the current deal to them to complete?

Mounsey are not empowered to make decisions on behalf of the executive, or where then executive do not need to make a decision, I will take this as the Director in consultation with the Portfolio Holder, Cllr Jellyman.

Let me know if you need anything for the council meeting and the deadline for papers.

Stay safe.

Jeff

From: Phil Cresswell Sent: 15 May 2020 14:19 To: Daniel Jellyman ; Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Cc: Julian Lythgoe ; Dawn Barlow Subject: RE: Dog & Bone Projects Limited - Premises adjoining The Meadows

Noted with thanks Cllr Jellyman; Jeff any queries please come through Julian Lythgoe or Dawn Barlow CC’d here.

Best

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 15 May 2020 14:13 To: Jeff Nash; Phil Cresswell Cc: Joy Hancock; Ash Subject: RE: Dog & Bone Projects Limited - Premises adjoining The Meadows

Hi Jeff

Thank you for your email.

As you may have now seen, James has left the authority. I have copied in Phil as the Director.

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In short, what this means is that we are keen to progress it, and will aim to get it on the agenda - all things being well and equal - for September. I am not able to bring it forward, as cabinet agendas are set months in advance, as I am sure you appreciate.

Best wishes Dan

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From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2020, 1:08 pm To: James Dunn , Daniel Jellyman Cc: Joy Hancock , Ash Subject: RE: Dog & Bone Projects Limited - Premises adjoining The Meadows

James/Dan, hope you are staying well under the lockdown.

We have traded OK through the lockdown so far by servicing keyworkers and our student customers and we are now getting ready to make plans for the lockdown easing. Generally speaking we are more or less intact and ready to start our development activity as soon as we are able which is not a bad outcome for our business and I want to motivate my team by looking to the future. We also have the LEP funding committed for this deal which the LEP really like and have committed to this remaining available to us.

One of the projects we would like to move forward on is the proposal for building 4. I had hoped that the lockdown would have allowed the documents to be processed so this is ready, but so far we haven’t had any response at all on the documents we sent over 3 months ago. Can you confirm whether this is still something you want to do with us as there is no sign of this at all on a practical level?

In the meantime we have been progressing the planning discussions and have the final application ready to go in in a few days. We do not want to commit to the costs of applying for planning if this is no longer a deal you want to do or if the commercial deal is going to drag on for months more. We are also looking at prioritising projects we can start as soon as we are able to, so if the resources are not there for the transaction to be completed on the council’s side, we would rather push this project much further back in our plans or just get on with operating Potbank without this development.

Planning have also informed us that Spode is no longer considered part of the “High Street” in Stoke. As a result, planning applications for new commercial, leisure and retail uses now need to include a sequential assessment and have requested one from us as part of this new policy. For our small scheme we can easily comply with this as the uses are all very specific to the current operations at Potbank and the Museum etc. and we have now completed the study to submit to planning. Section 43 (commercial interests)

. Dan, I sent you a separate email on this on which I am awaiting a response.

If all this means you would rather we didn’t implement our plans for building 4 I would be happy to withdraw our offer Section 43 (commercial interests)

. Our preference would be to kick off our post Covid development activity with the Spode investment in Stoke but we do not want to have to wait months for a decision as the underlying situation with the economy will mean that this is a good time for us to be developing whilst we have capital available and contractors and other suppliers desperate for work. Its really important for the economy that businesses like ours get things moving and we are not going to waste time on seemingly endless contractual and planning processes in Stoke.

If you can let me know either way whether you are able to commit resources to us completing on building 4 I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Jeff Nash

From: Jeff Nash Sent: 06 February 2020 16:39 To: James Dunn ; Daniel Jellyman Cc: Ash ; Richard Gray

; Joy Hancock Subject: RE: Dog & Bone Projects Limited - Premises adjoining The Meadows

James, Dan,

We have simplified this to enable us to get possession quickly and start immediately with the urgent roof repairs. Section 43 (commercial interests) We are processing the approvals from the conservation officer for our roof repairs alongside the Museum’s repair so we can do both jobs whilst we have the roofers on site. This will stop the ongoing damage to these buildings and allow the museum to finish their renovation and stage the 250th anniversary celebrations.

We are keen to start this work as soon as possible and look forward to getting this signed.

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Jeff Nash

Sent: 29 May 2020 16:09 To: Phil Cresswell Cc: Julian Lythgoe ; Daniel Jellyman Subject: RE: Artist Market Spode Works

Thanks Phil, we will deal with that once we know whether the council will be willing to let us use the space. We have regularly had markets and artists gallery sales inside Potbank and this was part of the planning permission for Potbank.

If the council are willing to let us do this we will contact planning and licensing re the use of these outside spaces during the period when the pandemic means this is not safe to carry on inside. With the Museum closed the cul de sac alongside Potbank would be a good place to do this and safely manage numbers and the social distancing requirements.

We have spoken to a number of artists we are in touch with both from Spode and elsewhere. Although they are self employed Artists’ income is very sporadic and most do not have fixed premises and so did not qualify for the various financial support schemes. The spring would usually be the time they start to earn from summer sales and events and everything has been cancelled. As a result, the artists community is really suffering and we want to give them a platform to help restart their businesses. We will do this at cost on our side because we think it is important for Spode and Stoke generally that we support this community.

I understand there are various moves afoot for councils to allow more flexible use of outside space by leisure businesses where this can be done safely. I would hope this is backed up by some national encouragement on councils to ensure the red tape doesn’t prevent or delay what would be a sensible temporary move to help get the economy and social life moving back to normality. My worry in all this is that the process, if it involves planning, will not go anywhere at all for months and probably end in refusal on a technicality! Either way we will try our hardest on our side to make something happen.

I presume someone on your side can advise as to whether you want to allow the use of the parking space for this. This would be for weekend use over the summer until the museum reopens.

Have a good weekend.

Jeff

From: Phil Cresswell Sent: 29 May 2020 13:48 To: Section 40 (personal information) Cc: Julian Lythgoe ; Daniel Jellyman Subject: FW: Artist Market Spode Works

Jeff, just to advise that markets are licenced and you would need a temporary permission too from a planning point of view.

Hope that’s helpful.

From: Jeff Nash

Sent: 29 May 2020 11:29 To: Daniel Jellyman ; Phil Cresswell ; Julian Lythgoe Subject: Artist Market Spode Works

As out door markets are permitted from Monday we want to open up a pop up outdoor local artist market at Potbank. To make the social distancing work we will arrange for each stall to be in a Harras fencing booth 3.5m sq in the open air. There would be a one way system for browsers to go past the booths and only one customer would be allowed at a stall at any time. We would run an open air take away pizza and oatcakes from the kiln and some soft drinks. No one would be allowed inside (other than stallholders to use toilets etc under our covid protocols.) We will provide some unserviced seating outside (we want to use this to test the feasibility of different seating arrangements - including table spacings, booths cleaning protocols and other service logistics for when we open up in July)

We need more space than we have to make this work but as the museum is not open the rear courtyard plus the parking alongside our demise could be used to make this work. If we do this at the weekend there will be plenty of parking in Elenora St in the pay and display. This would also be a starting point for local walks around the town to take in the remaining art installations from Festival Stoke, the rose garden etc.

I know a lot of the artists are struggling for sales (including Acava) and we think we can manage this with strict social distancing.

We want to try a low key feasibility event to test the practicalities as soon as possible (which we will do only limited promotion for and have limited numbers). To maintain the socialdistancing it will only be possible to stage this effecticely if we have access to the extra space by the loading bay and in front of the museum (the one way system will be a large thoroughfare that will allow emergency access if needed). At the weekends this space is all entirely unused and I understand the museum will not open before September, although we are hoping to find volunteers to take some of the museum stock into the market and we will stage some outside materials from the museum to celebrate Spodes 250th anniversary.

After July this can also run alongside the open cafe/ Potbank.

This would be a really important event for the local artists and to get people sensibly venturing out and thinking about coming back to Spode.

If you are happy for us to do this in principle we will work up plans and risk assessments (including Covid risk assessments) for approval.

Please let me know as soon as possible your views.

Thanks.

Jeff Nash

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Stay Safe

Jeff Nash

From: Jeff Nash Sent: 24 April 2020 21:40 To: Daniel Jellyman ; Randolph Conteh ; jo gideon mp@parliament uk; andy platt@stoke gov uk Cc: Ash Subject: Stoke Town Centre planning Zone - Section 43 (commercial interests)

Dan, Andy, Randy, and Jo hope you are all staying safe under the lockdown.

I am writing to all of you to express our concern about a report that has been quietly adopted as a change to planning policy that has moved the centre of gravity for Stoke Town away from Spode and the gateway accesses towards the University, Station and City Centre in favour of a new focus anchored around the London Road Sainsburys and its free car park!

This new “Stoke Town High Street” Zone came out of a study prepared by Manchester based consultancy Nexus in 2019 (attached). This new plan is reproduced below.....

By re-orientating the Town away from Spode and the Station/University gateways this change will severely undermine potential investment in Spode and across the wider Stoke Town area.

In the past 8 years we have been operating under the assumption that the priority for development in Stoke Town was to:

1 Enhance and maximise the value of the links and proximity to the Station, University, Stoke City FC, Council Offices and Town and Kings halls as major footfall generators. 2 Take advantage of the heritage assets and cultural scene and potential that has developed around these including, Spode (including Potbank, Museum, China Halls and Acava), Stoke Minster, the Church St, Elenora St and Liverpool Rd heritage high street facades, Portmeirion and (eventually) Falcon 3 Take advantage of the growth in residential population both in Stoke Town (with over 5,000 new houses in the local plan) and nearby in Trentham Lakes etc by providing leisure opportunities and convenience shopping. 4 Address the problems of traffic flow through the town that currently makes the “high street” an unattractive place to linger and enhance the pedestrian and other transport links to the Station/University and onwards to the City centre

These are the policies and aspirations that featured in the Stoke Town Master Plan, the URBED studies and Jo Gideon's very recent statements in Parliament about the potential for Stoke Town and the desire for a pedestrian bridge to improve these station and University gateway connections.

The previous local plan for retail centres was based on a 2014 report prepared by WYG (this report is still the one displayed on the current planning Website).

To make the changes in policy easier to understand we have overlaid the Nexus study plan on the WYG plan to show the change in planning zone that has been adopted.

The Nexus study was commissioned to look at retail trends across all of the Towns across the city Inevitably most of the focus was on NuL and Hanley The focus on Stoke Town and the scope of this work was very limited and, in our opinion, poorly researched in terms of recent local trends in development and regeneration Section 43 (commercial interests) Section 43 (commercial interests)

Jeff Nash

Dog and Bone Group

Sot Planning’s request for a sequential study re Potbank expansion...... From: Jeff Nash To: Tomos Jones; Abi Brown; Carl Brazier Cc: Ash; [email protected] Subject: Re: Q Studios URGENT Date: 08 April 2020 13:34:04 Attachments: image001.png image002.png

Section 40 (personal information) My number is . I am assuming (and hoping) you have a better alternative to Potbank (with or without Q) and are now pursuing those options now our Potbank proposal has lapsed.

Having not been able to progress this with you we are now seeking keyworkers for Potbank in line with our original plan.

As you know a couple of weeks ago we set Potbank aside for the council keyworkers and had not opened this up to the wider market. I think, however, that we have also established that you will also not be requiring any more than the 10 rooms we currently have occupied by the council keyworkers. We haven't yet tried to remarket those rooms because of the offer to you to help solve the homeless problem. As Lymedale is Section 40 (personal information filling up I would be grateful if you confirm that you do not need any further keyworker accommodation at Potbank. I expect we will otherwise start filling up Potbank with other guests over the next few days.

We have the only self contained aparthotel product in the city and it is exactly what keyeorkers are after to mange their isolation including how the protect their families from the frontline risks. That is also why we were keen to bring on stream the 250 empty studio apartment rooms at Q. But it now looks like this is something you were not able to work with us on.

At Lymedale we have also taken a small number of emergency cases from NuL (for Section 38 (health and safety) ), although we are very careful as to who we take and mix with the keyworkers, I know Tomos and his team will need access to this sort of product and Q would have given you a large pool of resources to draw upon. So it is a great shame these resources will now probably stand idle. If we have availability at either Lymedale or Potbank we would be willing to consider emergency accommodation from Stoke on a case by case basis, although our facilities are now very limited.

For now we are back to concentrating on our own properties focusing on the keyworkers and I have also told Q to.stand down.

As I mentioned if there is anything we can do to help you and the council please call me and we will do whatever we can to help.

Thanks.

Jeff

Jeff Nash From: Jeff Nash To: Carl Brazier; Tomos Jones; Abi Brown Cc: Ash; Section 40 (personal [email protected] Subject: RE: Q Studios URGENT Date: 07 April 2020 21:28:49 Attachments: image001.png image002.png

I have sent several emails to Tomos but haven’t received any response other than the following one line response I received week ago on April 1st.....

“Much appreciated, as I say we’ll be assessing all of the options tomorrow and will come to a final decision.”

In the meantime Lymedale has filled up and we can no longer offer that option.

We have worked with Section 40 (personal before so we worked through the alternatives with him and quickly concluded that Potbank was a viable option and arranged with him to go over it at the weekend.. We know believes Potbank will present a turnkey solution to the needs of the Section 43 (commercial interests) . However, I have no response whatsoever from the council on this proposal. This is why I rang Tomos this afternoon.

If we do not have an in principle “go” by Tomorrow lunchtime, we will not be able to execute our plans prior to the bank holiday weekend. Effectively this will prevent us from doing anything until a week tonight at the earliest, and that would include me pulling staff in over the weekend and also require our lawyers to work on this over the holidays. I am also aware that the situation regarding the general risks are increasing and I do not want to expose my staff by having to deal with logistics and moving people, furniture etc. around as the general risks from the pandemic increase. Section 40 (personal information)

I will be focusing everyone on our core business from tomorrow and reopening bookings on Potbank for Keyworkers. We will still be able to get back on the track to support you with Potbank by noon, after that I am afraid we will have to pull the offer as it will be too late. I agree these are challenging times and these require decisive action. We have put our other plans on hold and have everything ready to support you. If you do not want to make the decision to accept in principle by noon the offer will lapse.

If it makes it easier for you we would accommodate the Homeless in Potbank without the Q option and can take the existing 10 Keyworkers over to Lymedale Aparthotel (which is 8 mins drive to Stoke). However, we would not be able to accept any more keyworkers than that from the SoT council at Lymedale as it will not have capacity.

I have a responsibility to my staff to make plans we can execute to ensure our business survives and we minimise the risk to them as we execute our plans. We have decided we will set and lock down our course before the Easter weekend as we know we will be approaching the peak of the epidemic. We have made careful plans to support keyworkers over several months and we have everything in its place to pursue that strategy and can carry on these operations in a way that ,manages our risks. The demand we are seeing, our business interruption insurance and readiness to open up in the exit period will carry us through this.

Setting up Potbank for the Homeless and moving the guests to Q is a major diversion and gives us a lot of uncertainty over managing the exit and has already entailed us pausing our strategy to make this offer this to you. If we can’t agree to proceed with this by lunchtime tomorrow, it will effectively entail us stalling our plans for another week with no certainty of our direction in Stoke. I would rather immediately get back on track with the plan under our control and without the complications and significant risks of offering the homeless accommodation and no certainty of doing a deal with you. We would still like to help you and have tried to put forward various options for you, but for us time is up tomorrow!

Good luck with whatever you eventually decide to do, we will help you in other ways with furniture, linen etc. if you need it so just call us if you think we can help.

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Jeff Nash Sent: 30 March 2020 10:28 To: Abi Brown ; Daniel Jellyman Subject: Homeless and keyworkers VERY URGENT

You probably know that we are helping out with your homeless requirements and I think one or other of you will be at the Plough this afternoon. Abi, I do not often email you directly but we have an alternative plan that can get everyone of the rough sleepers off the streets of the city tomorrow night and also increase our capacity to supply keyworkers by 300 self-contained rooms (all our SOT capacity for this is already full until July) SoT council will need some of this capacity at some stage and every other hotel is shut and not suitable to be safely used in our view anyway.

I can convince you this is the best way for the city to go in 10 mins on a call and every minute is precious. I would come down to the Plough meeting but Section 40 (personal information) .

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Jeff Section 40 (personal information) F om Je f Nash To Daniel Je lyman Subject RE E Co onavi us Date 17 Ma ch 2020 15 28 31

Thanks, we wi l be active th oughout the c isis, we have a mo e o less full student business and we a e suppo ting them as we l as the hotels. Ope ating eve ything n lockdown mode. Its impo tant fo my staff s mo ale that we show we a e planning to come out the othe side of th s with plans eady to go. So I hope the counc l do not shut down the e effo t. Sadly enough things w ll get cancelled to clea the decks so they should have plenty of time at home to deal with us.

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Difficult day!

Jeff

From Dan el Jellyman Dan el Je [email protected]> Sent 17 Ma ch 2020 10 57 To Jeff NashSection 40 (person Subject RE LEP Co onavi us

Hi Jeff

Totally ag ee on the gove nment and thei pos tion ght now.

And we w ll continue to p og ess the deal we have, just f om home!

Best w shes Dan

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From Je f NashSection 40 (perso Date Tuesday, 17 Ma 2020, 10 35 am To Dan el Jellyman D l J lly @ g > Subject Re LEP Co onavi us

I think we may be so d out but we wi l be prioritising our availabi ity to key workers.

t is inevi ab e that the bu lding p ans will be delayed now but I st ll think the enab ing of this via our deal with you should progress. We w ll survive this crises and you are going to need businesses like us to k ckstart things on the other side so please make sure whoever s dea ing w th this at the council keeps going. It can be done from home. Section 43 (commercial interests)

Thanks

Jeff

Jeff Nash

From Dan el Jellyman D l J lly @ g > Sent Tuesday, Ma ch 17, 2020 10 24 30 AM To Jeff Nash Section 40 (perso> Subject RE LEP Co onavi us

Hi Jeff

That is g eat news, thank you fo letting me know.

I wi l pass on you message below a ound staff to the C ty Di ecto .

Best w shes Dan

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From Je f Nash Section 40 (pers Date F iday, 13 Ma 2020, 11 48 am To Dan el Jellyman D l J lly @ g > Subject LEP Co onavi us

Just FYI, the meeting with the LEP have ag eed to give us the full fund ng fo the Phase 2 Potbank � we a e still wa ting fo a esponse on the legals! That s a eally g eat vote of confidence in the �Spode P oject�

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********************************************************************** From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: RE: Spode video Date: 10 March 2020 10:46:51

Thanks, I really want to get on with this, as I can’t fully commit the tenants without the deal done with you. Section 43 (commercial interests)

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Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 10 March 2020 07:47 To: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Subject: RE: Spode video

Hi Jeff

Thanks for sharing! Yes absolutely, great production and will be great with the press release.

I know estates are working on this, I will chase a detailed response for you.

Thank you for the update, best of luck with the LEP.

Best wishes Dan

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From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Date: Friday, 06 Mar 2020, 3:06 pm To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Spode video

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We are seeing the LEP on the 12th � I�ll let you know how it goes.

Have a good weekend.

Jeff

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From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 28 January 2020 10:54 To: Jeff Nash

Cc: Ash ; Richard Gray ; Joy Hancock Subject: RE: Acquisition of Additional Premises at Spode and Signage

I have no objections to the sign, I think it is a good call.

James - any comments or concerns?

Cheers Dan

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From: Jeff Nash

, Daniel Jellyman Cc: Ash , Richard Gray , Joy Hancock Subject: RE: Acquisition of Additional Premises at Spode and Signage

Thanks, I’m seeing Joy tomorrow afternoon to go over a few details and plans and will have this with you straight after this. Btw can we go ahead and make the sign. It will be a big improvement on the current menagerie of crap sitting by the gate and probably safer in high winds. AS per my note, we will pay for this and I have agreed the design and location with Alan on site (although its moveable anyway).

Jeff

From: James Dunn Sent: 28 January 2020 08:56 To: 'Jeff Nash'

; Daniel Jellyman Cc: Ash ; Richard Gray ; Joy Hancock Subject: RE: Acquisition of Additional Premises at Spode and Signage

Thanks Jeff. This all seems fine and we await the planning application and legal documentation to follow shorlty.

Regards

James

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 23 January 2020 10:59 To: James Dunn ; Daniel Jellyman Cc: Ash ; Richard Gray ; Joy Hancock Subject: RE: Acquisition of Additional Premises at Spode and Signage

Dan/James. Just a quick update on this which is reflected in the (now final) plans (attached):

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Jeff From: Jeff Nash To: Joy Hancock; Daniel Jellyman; James Dunn Cc: Ash; Joy Hancock Subject: RE: Lease of additional space at Spode - Private and confidential Date: 26 February 2020 11:08:31

Sorry, Dan –Section 40 (personal information)

As per my earlier email, the LEP have approved us for the final stages of their EU Loan fund. We have a meeting with them on the 12th March and I would like to think we have some progress on the documents by then, however, they have asked us to confirm that the council are in principle (and stc) willing to proceed with this deal and support the plan. An email with any required caveats re contracts and planning etc. would help if you could do this.

FYI, we now have an appointment on 3rd March with Planning to discuss the repairs and the planning permission (it took 8 weeks just to get this date!). Hopefully we will get some response on the legals. We want to get on to repair the roofs as soon as possible as the weather isn’t getting any better..

I think the LEP support for this deal would be a big vote of confidence for the Spode Project and I think it will also help you support other interest in the site and will enable us to accelerate our plans for the next phase proposal for building 5 and the Meadows.

By the way we are putting the sign up today. I will send you a picture.

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Potbank phase 2, LEP and council agreements Date: 21 February 2020 13:41:18

Hi Dan I wanted to update you on this. We have done a lot of work on our side to make this project possible Section 43 (commercial interests) . Its a real shame, the tenants we have lined up all want to commit, the work we are doing will allow us to carry out some additional roof repairs for the museum (the museum need these repairs done to stage the Spode 250 years celebration exhibition), we have also received an LEP funding offer (the LEP are leen to get behind a commercial project at Spode) and we have a construction team ready to start on the repairs. All this and the many skilled jobs this project will create make this a great story for us, Spode and "silicon" Stoke town so Section 43 (commercial interests)

Shortly after our meeting we approached planning to discuss the repairs to stop the current damage being done, planning suggested we do this through a formal pre-planning discussion which we applied and paid for. So far, after more than 6 weeks, we do not even have a date for this meeting. It now looks likely this informal consultation will take longer than a planning application and having started this process we haven't been able to formally lodge our plans. This really shouldnt be a difficult discussion - the repairs are immediately needed to meet your own obligations to preserve these listed buildings and all of the details for planning should follow the precedents for phase 1. Section 43 (commercial interests)

Since our meeting nearly 8 weeks ago we have delivered everything on our side Section 43 (commercial in but made no progress on any front with the council. My problem is that and need to know when we can get them in. The work on site is easy to manage but the starting date for the work is all pending a swift outcome with planning and the council. It already looks like the approval process will exceed the build time by several Section 43 (commercial inte months. If we can't give a firm date they will likely go to the Keele Section 43 (commercial intere innovation hub and these jobs will be lost to Stoke town and connection with the university will be deminished.

In addition, as the weather has continued to be severe the building is suffering more and more damage (we think the 3rd storey wooden plant room is at risk of Section 43 ( collapse) which is also effecting the adjacent grade 2 buildings and Potbank.

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Can you do anything to help?

Thanks

Jeff Nash From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman; Richard Gray; James Dunn Cc: Bev Booth; Michael Escolme; Joy Hancock; Ash Subject: RE: Acquisition of Additional Premises at Spode and Signage Date: 24 January 2020 16:42:23

Thanks, just FYI, I have just sent Joy some comments on the legal documents and I expect these to be ready to go over to the council early next week.

Have a good weekend.

Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 24 January 2020 16:37 To: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information); Richard Gray

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Hi Jeff and Richard

Totally appreciate time is crucial to this, James and I are aware.

James is sorting this (with the hundreds of other items on his plate), but I know it will get dealt with.

Best wishes Dan

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From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Spode - Potbank Date: 15 January 2020 19:42:13

Ok sorry we couldnt help this time as you are always welcome. Im hoping we will have a nice opening party for the new media offices, ceramic cafe and extra rooms sometime in the summer. Section 40 (personal information)

Jeff

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From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:32:52 PM To: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Subject: RE: Spode - Potbank

Hi Jeff

On second thoughts it may be a bit crowded!

Thank you anyway, we will look to do a summer event at potbank though!

Best wishes Dan

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From: Jeff Nash

Date: Wednesday, 15 Jan 2020, 9:50 am To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: RE: Spode - Potbank

How many people is this for. I think we can segregate the café for you.

Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 15 January 2020 08:19 To: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) > Subject: RE: Spode - Potbank

Hi Jeff

The drag night shouldn’t be an issue if we can have a private room? Which room would it be?

I take it we won’t be able to do the pizza bit, would it be possible to put some nibbles out?

Best wishes

Dan

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From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) > Date: Wednesday, 15 Jan 2020, 7:21 am To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Spode - Potbank

Thanks for your email Dan. I'm sorry we already have a booking in the whole venue. Its a Drag act party. It is a public event but we could set you up a private room. However that might be too risque an entertainment although I am reassured its reasonably tasteful!

Let me know eirher way or if there are any other dates.

Thanks for thinking of us

Jeff

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From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 2:56:12 PM To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) > Subject: Spode - Potbank

Hi Jeff

Hope you are well.

I am organising another celebration event on Friday 31 January, as a result of the GE.

Would we be able to have it at the Potbank Café, with Pizza making, as we did in the summer please?

Starting from 7pm until midnight?

Thanks Dan

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I'm helping our employees and tenants organise car pooling and lift sharing in the new year using this app. It is being adopted by a number of bluechip organisations and uses uber style technology to manage and reward trips. It is mainly being implemented via workplace administrators as this makes safeguarding easier to validate through employee records and also allows management of incentives earned via the scheme (eg priority parking). The scheme also directly rewards carbon savings via lift sharing. Section 40 (personal information)

Between our direct employees and tenants we have over 200 employees but I Section 40 (personal information)

This would be a very cost effective way of reducing carbon/nox and congestion. The one way system around Stoke is a very good base to try this. If you are interested in discussing a local roll out with us please let me know.

Thanks.

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Sent from Samsung tablet. From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Spode Date: 03 January 2020 18:47:20

Thanks. Section 40 (personal information) . We more or less have the planning application done and can submit it without owning the property so may do this if we have a positive meeting. It should be simple as these buildings are otherwise falling down and of no particular historic importance. Although its a small deal it pulls together a lot of other bigger things and is a very good story for Spode and Stoke so I hope we can get on with it.

I would also like to discuss moving forward on the Meadows and building 5. I've had Section 43 (comme some interesting conversations with who might take part of the ground of building 5 for their town/gown outreach which is seperate from their BArts project they are looking at with you.

Looking forward to seeing you on the 7th. Section 40 (personal information)

Have a good weekend.

Jeff

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From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Friday, January 3, 2020 10:00:38 AM To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) Subject: RE: Spode

Hi Jeff

Happy New Year and I hope you had a good Christmas.

Thank you for this. I am keen to tie up as much as possible on the 7th to get things moving.

I do know Section 43 (commercial interests) , and agree that they will both be assets to Stoke town centre.

I agree that we need to ensure that we get Inspired Video on Spode, and will look to agree this on the 7th.

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Best wishes Dan

From: Jeff Nash [Section 40 (personal information)] Sent: 19 December 2019 17:44 To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Spode

Hi Dan, I hope you have recovered from the election, congratulations for sweeping the board in Stoke!

We have been hard at work making plans for the additional space we are due to discuss in January and have had some interesting discussions with Section 43 (commercial interests)

This is a really interesting development as it would result in a cluster of over 50 media graduates/professionals around Spode all feeding off links with the university. That would be amazing news for Stoke Town and this will help draw in more of these businesses.

They have a short timetable and we have an idea as to how we can deliver it but we will need a decision at our meeting on the 7th. To speed things up I have had the planning application drafted and instructed our lawyers to clone the documents for the first deal to get started. Its a small deal and a building that is being badly damaged by leaks and partial collapse and will likely be a liability if we do not take it on. However, I'm mindful based on past experience that there may be some new wider strategic plans that mean tha we again do nothing. Section 43 (commercial interests)

This is a good tenant and we we will fulfil their requirement one way or another.

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As you probably saw on twitter we did nearly 10k guests in the hotel last year and for January alone we already have 10 fully sold out days and many more throughout the year so we have no doubt the extra rooms will be put to good use and would like to get them in time for the Robbie Williams concert (we are sold out all weekend at average rates above £200/night).

If we can pull all these threads together it will be a big move forward for Spode but we need to get a move on and I would like a decision at our meeting in the 7th. If you have any doubts or thoughts about refusing the proposal I would rather know straight away so we can quickly change tack.

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Sorry thats a long email, hopefully we will be set up for an exciting 2020.

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From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:12:18 PM To: 'Jeff Nash'

; Abi Brown Subject: RE: Heritage Action

Hi Jeff

Thank you for your email.

Abi and I have spoken about your email today and agree that is it a shame that the city has so many absent property owners of historic buildings. It has been an absolute priority of the city council to tackle these property owners since our administration took office in 2015. We will continue to pursue such owners through the courts, though we are held back by national legislation on how far we can go with these court cases. It is also important that the council is seen to lead from the front with our own historical assets, hence our investments in Spode, Stoke Town Hall, Longton Town Hall, Tunstall Town Hall, Longton HAZ, Stoke HAZ, Potteries Musuem, Stoke PiSCA, but to name a few.

We both agree that we want to help investors, who see the benefit of historical buildings, like you have done. I believe that we work well together, as demonstrated by our recent agreement to discuss terms over buildings 2A, 4B & 5. A deal I hope to finalise at our meeting in January.

I am happy to work with you to help create a group of investors to look at other historical assets in the city which are in private ownership, using the great work you have done as an example of what can be achieved when the private sector leads, with support from the city council.

We can speak more about this in the new year.

Best wishes

Dan

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From: Jeff Nash [Section 40 (personal information)] Sent: 05 December 2019 06:25 To: Daniel Jellyman; Abi Brown Subject: Heritage Action

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As you know on Spode we are the only entirely privatly funded development on the site. All our spaces are full, our events venue is buzzing every day and we have been taking overflow demand to our other heritage site at Carlton.

By contrast the offices developed on Church Street are empty, the half hearted efforts in the China Halls are starting to hit the practical limits of its dilapidated state and lack of ingrastructure after the initial novelty factor has worn off. Section 40 (personal information)

Our efforts show the potential is there but even in our case we have faced nothing but rejection, or worse still lack of response. For over 2 years now we haven't had any success in respect of further expansion - all our input on strategic decsions is ignored (we rarely even get replies in this area). Section 40 (personal information)

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Once the new CEO is in I would be happy to.organise a meeting with a number of local investors developers and potential tenants through the Chambers of Commerce or LEP who will share our experiences and help you create an agenda to get private investment into these buildings.

Im sure you are too busy for this now but something we should turn toin the new year.

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Jeff Nash

Winner – UK Housing Awards Council of the Year 2019

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Yes that is clearly their plan A. Section 43 (commercial interests)

I’ll keep you updated.

Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 18 November 2019 15:15 To: Jeff Nash

Subject: RE: Eagle Rock

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Best wishes

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From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) > Date: Monday, 18 Nov 2019, 9:23 am To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Eagle Rock

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Jeff

From: Jeff Nash Sent: 18 November 2019 09:18 To: 'James Dunn' ; 'Daniel Jellyman' Subject: POTBANK - ADDITIONAL SPACE IN 4C AND PLANS FOR FURTHER EXPANSION

Dan/James.

Following our recent meetings, attached is a summary of the offer we would like to make for the section at the rear of Potbank together with an outline of the proposed works. We have also given some further thought to the next stage of development in the meadows.

We have carried out a thorough investigation of the buildings which are in a very dilapidated state. All of the roofs are shot and leaking badly and this is beginning the effect the structures and cast concrete floors which threatens the rear of our demise, the museum and the problems in these buildings also makes it impossible to activate building 4c which is also being effected by the water damage.

Our plan is to fix the roofs and gain 4 bedrooms and some additional storage space below, shifting the store we have on the rear carpark frontage to allow this to have a higher value use which we plan t be a ceramic café. We think this will work but it will be a speculative development. It is a very marginal development for us but it does allow us to add a small number of disabled access rooms, improve our storage and logistics and remove the threat from a leaking and eventually collapsing structure.

We have designed the scheme to allow for several benefits to the wider site and our neighbouring buildings and will be taking on the costs to facilitate this. These include:

Creating a disabled access thoroughfare between the museum, café, hotel and adjacent car parks to the Church Street quarter. This will improve the access for the new developments being undertaken by the Council and provide an alternative access to the new China Halls entrance via the rear courtyard from the parking on the Elenora Street side of the site including from the station (I noticed a lot of people coming via trains to the beer festival who would have benefitted from this access). the disabled lift being used by the museum which will open up a lot of possibilities for their first floor room which cannot currently accommodate disabled patrons (this restricts access to funding and approvals for things like wedding licenses which they cannot apply for without disabled access). The museum are very supportive of us doing this as this would allow the Spode collection room to be used for meetings and weddings that could be run in conjunction with Potbank. The museum believe that the enabling works and lift can be counted by them in their 3rd party funding assessments (this will enable them to unlock additional funding from English heritage etc. We will provide easements off of our corridors to facilitate escape routes from the ground and first floor of building 4c which could thereafter be brought into use with minimal expenditure. The ground floor could be a good mould store or new location for a studio for the BCB or both which could be activities curated with the museum. The first floor space in 4c is a very attractive room in good condition that could easily be brought back into use (with the new fire escape via our development) as a rehearsal space, dance studio etc (it has a fantastic wooden floor). To facilitate cost effective temporary or permanent development of these spaces we would provide for access to our biomass heating, electricity connections, internet and fire alarms. See further comments below on district heating.

We think this scheme should be fairly straightforward to get through planning as there are no high value heritage buildings involved and we will remove the risk of further damage from the leaks and the collapsing wooden structure which will eventually damage the adjacent heritage buildings. We would submit planning applications as soon as we start discussions on heads of terms (the documentation should follow the existing building precedents). Because of the extensive work required on the roofs (including a quite substantial badly damaged asbestos roof and panelling), demolition of the wooden structure and the facilitation of the disabled access and easements we cannot pay more thanSection 43 (commercia for this space. Realistically it couldn’t be valued at an more than this because it has poor access unless attached to our building and would otherwise cost a great deal to demolish without any good access for future uses (demolition would also require alternative fire exits to make any use of building 4c which we would include in the scheme).

We would like to get on with this as soon as possible and would be happy to sign heads of terms (outline attached) and announce this expansion and benefits to the museum etc. as soon as possible to help with the general momentum of activity on the site. Please let me know if you would like to proceed and we will immediately instruct our solicitors and commence the planning process (which we can do speculatively before documentation is signed). Assuming we get planning consent within a reasonable time from this project will be less then 5 months to achieve and we would like the extra rooms and improved accesses done by next summer.

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One of the other issues we have in operating the hotel and events business is that currently the entrance to the hotel goes through the spaces we use for events. Our revised pans will move an entrance to the hotel to the Meadows which will also be serviced by a lift. Using this entrance will allow us to segregate the guests not attending events more effectively. Together with some additional serviced apartments we are building at Carlton these rooms will take the hotel up to around 60 rooms and provide us with more flexibility on events. At this size this will be a major asset to the local tourism and events sector as well as a number of other businesses in Stoke, the universities, Kings and China Halls events and the hospital all of which are causing our current product to be oversubscribed. We could start on the plans for this development very quickly but we are only willing to do this once we have a better idea as to the long term plans for the site’s access, parking and the plans for the Meadows warehouse and single storey gatehouse block demolitions.

In addition to developing the extra rooms, we would also as part of this phase want to look at expanding our biomass plant. We created the potential to expand this when it was first installed and some of the infrastructure like the fuel stores has the capacity to service more plant. As part of the larger phase of development we would want to double the size of our district heating plant. This would enable us to heat all of the new buildings and also provide the capacity to heat buildings 5, 6, 7, building 4c, the museum and any new uses attached to these. We have been discussing our plant with the City Council’s DHN team and we would also want to set up the network with a view to connecting it to the DHN when it comes into Spode. The DHN needs silos of heating networks like ours to build up its roll out and balance peak demand - if we were to connect to the DHN, we would sell them capacity from our system for their peak load (the DHN team fully support us approaching the heating on site in this way and would encourage us to expand this network where it is cost effective to do so).

Similarly we would also propose to put a significant solar array on the flat roof of the meadows. We are at the moment planning our independent electricity supply to come in and would like to size this to deal with all the plans we have. We are planning to bring in the new supply at the same time as the council bring in the supply for the Church street development to minimise disruption which will be in the early new year. So we would like to know whether we are proceeding with the additional developments within that timescale.

We have prepared some outline plans for how this major second phase development would work and we would be happy to present and discuss these with you in a meeting.

Coupled with the council’s own plans for the church street developments, our proposals would really help you accelerate momentum and other interest in the site. I look forward to receiving your response.

Thanks,

Jeff

Winner – UK Housing Awards Council of the Year 2019

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Dan. Just a quick update/aside. Section 40 (personal information)

Charles and Adrian came and looked around and think the hotel concept is the key and would be transformational to both the Halls as a convention centre. Section 40 (personal information)

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We have run the rule over the the rear section and will have plans very soon. I've had several discussions with Section 43 (commercial interests) We have also had discussions with two parties who will look at a ceramic cafe which will sit between the cafe and museum which will really add to the mix. Section 40 (personal information)

Assuming the current proposals do not kill off our interest. We have been thinking about how we expand (just fyi we have been 100% full most days during the bcb and we have been spinning customers out to our other properties most weeks and getting room rates that are at the top end in Stoke). Section 40 (personal information)

Section 40 (personal information) From: Phil Cresswell Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2019 10:05:06 AM To: 'Jeff Nash'

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Subject: RE: URGENT SAFETY ISSUE REQUIRING IMMEDIATE ACTION

Cllr Conteh and Jellyman we will look at this and reply directly to Jeff copying you into our reply; Jeff please direct future correspondence to James or myself.

Thanks

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 05 October 2019 09:55 To: Randolph Conteh Cc: Daniel Jellyman ; Phil Cresswell ; James Dunn ; Alan Shenton Subject: URGENT SAFETY ISSUE REQUIRING IMMEDIATE ACTION

I have just left the site and thankfully was able to prevent a visitor to the site who was indicating left from the exit onto Elenora Street. There is no “no left turn” or “right turn only” sign on the road opposite the exit and this is a very dangerous exit with poor visibility of the road to the left. A very serious accident is highly likely, particularly with the number of tourists in and out for the BCB who may not be familiar with the local road layout and this risk is increased by there being no security on site to assist visitors. The council will very likely be held responsible for any accident so I would suggest this is dealt with as a matter of urgency. I have raised this issue with before but I think the new security arrangements now make the situation more dangerous.

As you are probably aware, adding these types of signs and materially changing the access to the site requires planning permission and via the statutory consultation highways consent. Although the gate house gate has been used as a gate exit more recently I do not think Highways or planning have been consulted for this use and Estates need to consider dealing with this issue via this process. I have recommended this consultation with Highways a few times in the recent past because I do not think Highways will approve this as an exit in its current form. In the meantime, I would recommend that as a stop gap you open both gates to allow visitors safe egress from the established ”out” exit. With the other exit open anyway this will make no difference to the security and could save the council from a very being held negligent in a serious accident.

Jeff

From: Jeff Nash Sent: 04 October 2019 15:41 To: Randolph Conteh Cc: Daniel Jellyman ; Phil Cresswell ; James Dunn Subject: Re: Spode Works Overnight Security *(Initial) response from Cllr Conteh*

Thanks Randy. I am aware an urgent security review and FRA is taking place this afternoon alongside the fire officer and look forward to seeing the results. The gates were left open last night and I fully expect that your review today will uncover issues that would have likely invalidated your insurance last night. Luckily the weather was bad so nobody was out and about. It is still unacceptable that a major change like this can proceed without these risks and consequences being reviewed and dealt with in advance including assistance being sought from the pcsos who know the local risks better than anyone.

As I mentioned in my emails, we believe we can take care if security in our own building, other than our reliance on your buildings insurance. The risks are in your empty properties and I hope the council appreciate that in addition to not validating the insurance I am trying to be helpful as I would not want to see the council incurring a significant liability from a poorly thought out and implemented proposal. Section 40 (personal information) !

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Thanks,

Jeff

From: Randolph Conteh Sent: Friday, October 4, 2019 3:09:28 PM To: 'Jeff Nash' Cc: Daniel Jellyman ; Phil Cresswell ; James Dunn Subject: RE: Spode Works Overnight Security *(Initial) response from Cllr Conteh*

Jeff,

Thank you for your email(s) enquiry.

I have been in touch with the Council and The Director and Assistant Director will look to meet with you to discuss your concerns, in the very near future.

Regards,

Cllr Conteh (Randy)

Councillor Randolph Conteh Penkhull & Stoke Cabinet Member for Communities & Safer City 84 Newcastle Lane Penkhull Stoke-on-Trent ST4 5DR telephone : Section 40 (personal information) e-mail [email protected]

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 03 October 2019 22:16 To: Randolph Conteh Cc: Ash; Richard Gray Subject: Re: Spode Works Overnight Security

Randy. Further to the emails I sent today I understand that the gates will be open tonight and furthermore I have been told second hand, but have no formal notice, that from midnight tomorrow until 7.30am Monday there will be no security and the gates will be left open.

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Jeff

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From: Jeff Nash Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:40:45 PM To: Randolph Conteh Cc: Ash Subject: FW: Spode Works Overnight Security

Randy, you had a call from PCSO Section 40 (personal information) . I called Section 40 (personal in Spode because I am concerned that the council is making a really naive decision to cut overnight security at Spode and leave the gates open. The first notification of this came last week in the two line email attached to this. I raised several issues with this and received no replies until this morning when we received the attached pdf notice that the security is being removed from tonight. I called Section 40 (personal information) know and was surprised the police were not informed that this 10 acre site was going to be left unsupervised other than with cctv.

Not surprisinglySection 40 (personal informatis horrified and has escalated this Section 40 (personal in sergeant, they have agreed to put Spode on their “red route” for drive byes but thinks it highly likely the site will have issues with rough sleepers and travellers within a very short space of time.

I am not worried directly about the security of our building as we have 24 hour staff and proper fire and intruder protection but the rest of the Spode site is very vulnerable, I am mainly concerned about fire risk from the adjacent buildings belonging to the council. I am also worried that as we have our insurance via the council’s block policy this change in security (which is a material change to the operation of the site should be discussed directly with the underwriters) could invalidate your insurance. Despite me raising Section 40 (personal note this morning only says the council will inform the insurers which implies you will go ahead with the changes first. Section 40 (personal info

I went round with Section 40 (personal informatio found numerous security weaknesses that are likely to be breached once people enter the site (Section 40 (personal information) . So as it is this change will risk the council having to deal with traveller, drug takers and rough sleepers on the site within a matter of days in a context where the change to the security without a proper risk assessment could invalidate your insurance. Section 40 (personal information)

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I will copy you into my reply Section 40 (personal info I expect you will receive further negative representations from the Police

Thanks,

Jeff From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman Cc: Ash Subject: Museum Date: 10 September 2019 17:25:30

Thank you for a very constructive meeting today. As we discussed, I would like to discuss with the museum our proposal to add disabled access to the first floor to facilitate access to the Blue Room collection. Since Paul left I do not have an email for the new chairman. Can you put me in touch.

Thanks.

Jeff

Jeff Nash From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: FW: Private and Confidential - Spode Works Hotel Concept Date: 03 September 2019 16:43:39

Dan, I discussed this Section 40 (personal information and he really likes the idea of the events led hotel. Section 40 (personal information)

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This is similar to what we did for Battersea Power Station. Interestingly we are also looking at something very similar in Fulham Town Hall - http://www.fulhamtownhall.co.uk/wp- content/uploads/2017/06/FulhamTownHall-guide.pdf which is of the same genre as the King/Town Halls (albeit with a different demographic!)

We would aim to propose a more detailed plan for the events led hotel at some point during the process and would be happy to discuss this with a strictly limited group in the council. We have a really clear picture already of what is on the Spode side but do not have any plans for the Kings Hall. Would there be any possibility of us getting the plans for the Kings and China Halls so we can flesh this out into more detail.

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Thanks,

Jeff

From: Jeff Nash Sent: 02 September 2019 15:39 To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: RE: Private and Confidential - Spode Works Hotel Concept

I’ve got a call scheduled Section 40 (personal information to talk about this tomorrow. Let me think about that, I don’t want to put the Council in a position where we do anything that may breach any confidentiality obligations you have about that deal.

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I’ll get back to you in a day or so.

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 02 September 2019 14:26 To: 'Jeff Nash'

Hi Jeff

Section 40 (personal information) I do not know every detail and if here is an option of a buy back or not.

Section 40 (personal information) . I think the best approach maybe for you to explore this further, unless you want me to start to take it wider in the authority.

Best wishes Dan

From: Jeff Nash [Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 02 September 2019 13:27 To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: RE: Private and Confidential - Spode Works Hotel Concept

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I really think this wider strategy is the one that could really light a fire under the potential for Spode. Do you have any trips to London scheduled in the near future? If you want to kick this off with a private chat ourselves, just let me know (we can meet privately at Carlton or Lymedale).

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 02 September 2019 12:18 To: 'Jeff Nash' Subject: RE: Private and Confidential - Spode Works Hotel Concept

Hi Jeff

Thank you for your email which I have considered over the weekend. I was against the deal that was struck with Eagle Rock, as it was done by my predecessor. I always felt that we were giving away too much for very little in return, which has proven to be the case.

I will not share this email, as you have requested.

I think your proposals have merits and I can see that it would work. It is an interesting proposal to integrate the management of the Kings Hall with any such wider development, and we would have to explore this further if this took place. However, I am open to the idea.

My only question and point of concern would be, how successful do you think you will be with Section 43 (commercial interests)

I will be guided by strategy on this. Whether it is best for your consortium to approach them directly, or to include the council in any overture.

I am very open to the suggestions and ideas here, and I would look to take the authority with me on this. I would love to come to London to discuss further, but I would need to bring a senior officer with me.

Best wishes

Dan

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) ] Sent: 31 August 2019 12:45 To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Private and Confidential - Spode Works Hotel Concept

Dan, moving on in (hopefully) in a more positive note Section 43 (commercial interests)

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We are really confident that this concept could be a real catalyst and anchor for the regeneration of the rest of the site and Stoke Town and if commercially led by us can be delivered in a very short timeframe. We have also set out in the attachment an idea of a masterplan based on this development and the existing schemes

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Let me know what you think and whether you would like to discuss this privately

Thanks,

Jeff

Winner – UK Housing Awards Council of the Year 2019

Hopefully we will sort this out Dan Section 40 (personal information)

Reinstating a door into an original.opening really doesnt involve anything that getting satisfactory building approval will be a problem for. We discussed it with our building inspector and builders and showed them this email traffic and Section 40 (personal information) The actual review of this work will take less than 5 minutes on site because it is really that simple a job. These emails make it look like the paperwork will take months.

As for the fire risk. We are adding an extra escape and proposing additional detection to meet our own risk assessments. It is really obvious this improves the fire safety.

Anybody sensibly looking at this from an experienced common sense point of view would accept this and just ask for the relevant paperwork expecting it will be fine. Section 40 (personal information)

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As is our way we wont give up!

Jeff

Jeff Nash mistakes being made.

I am addressing the issue to avoid such errors in the future.

Best wishes Dan

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, Abi Brown Cc: Centre Space , James Dunn , Keith Brymer Jones - Make Int. , Ash Subject: RE: Fwd: Building 6 - Spode Works

Dan, Attached is the outline of the plan for the space and access we require for the KBJ installation, we have stripped this back so it just involves double doors accessing the space from our side and we can carry out most of the work from there. The installation will be partly in our building accessing a temporary space in the Meadows Warehouse that will be taken down when the event closes (it is part of the Keele Curiosity Festival over the weekend of 23rd November). Dan can start installing the work on the other side of the wall as soon as he has the go ahead, the door will take a day for us to put in (it is an existing opening), although there is more work making good and reconfiguring on our side.

We have discussed the fire safety and our fire risk assessors who have advised we put in temporary fire detection linked to our system. This will raise an alarm on our side if there is smoke or a fire on the Council’s side of the doors (our system also alerts the lodge so its additional protection for your building and visitors. We would remove this after the show if you require, although I do not think it is a bad thing for us to have detection directly linked to us for adjacent buildings. We will also install temporary CCTV linked to our system to monitor the space. These features will form part of our EMP.

We have discussed this location with both the Dust Rising and Claybody groups and the exhibit has been designed to allow both events to pass through this area. This improves all of the events with additional footfall and interest and saves the Claybody audience from going outside. Section 40 (person Section 40 (personal information)

We are paying for all works and to make this possible we have had to compromise some income from our events spaces but we think securing the exhibit is worth the investment.

We would like you approval for this to proceed so we can create event management plans, detail the work for approval by Estates and agree a license. Keith and Dan were planning to open on the 13th September (with an opening party in Potbank that would generate some good PR for everything). The works and the install we can easily do in this time but I am concerned that the council will not be able to deal with the admin, although we have had licenses and agreements to work in that space before and I do not see the installation as a very challenging event to manage. I need to realistically know that the council are committed to meeting that deadline as there are invites to send out and its getting a bit short notice.

When the event is finished, we have planned for the doors to be secured from the council’s side as I do not want to remove them and we have specified it for 60 minutes as a fire break to ensure robust separation – this will allow us access to the parking once this building has been demolished.

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 27 August 2019 17:53 To: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) ; Abi Brown Cc: Centre Space ; James Dunn ; Keith Brymer Jones - Make Int. ; Ash Subject: RE: Fwd: Building 6 - Spode Works

Thanks Jeff. Totally agree that we need to move quickly and will do all we can to ensure the council does the best it can.

Thanks

Dan

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From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Date: Tuesday, 27 Aug 2019, 5:45 pm To: Daniel Jellyman , Abi Brown Cc: Centre Space , James Dunn , Keith Brymer Jones - Make Int. , Ash Subject: Re: Fwd: Building 6 - Spode Works

Thank you. I have had a meeting with Darren and Ash and will be speaking to Claybody in the morning to agree how we worknaround their show. I would hope tomorrow to give you a brief schematic of what we propose so we you can approve it and we will then get on with a detailed plan for the work which we will fund and event managment plan.

We need to get on with this quite quickly so we can go ahead with the show openig on 13th September.

Thanks.

Jeff

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From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 12:51:17 PM To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) ; Abi Brown Cc: Centre Space ; James Dunn Subject: RE: Fwd: Building 6 - Spode Works

Hi Jeff

Your proposal sounds ok with me if it is with Darren.

Regarding the health risk, it has only been flagged and no measurements have yet to be taken to see if there is a risk or not. However, as it is now flagged, we can’t proceed until readings are taken.

Thanks Dan

From: Jeff Nash [mailtoSection 40 (personal information) ] Sent: 23 August 2019 13:49 To: Daniel Jellyman; Abi Brown Cc: Centre Space; James Dunn Subject: Re: Fwd: Building 6 - Spode Works

That is very worrying. I was with Darren yesterday and he specifically asked if there were any health hazzards because he had been in there with Sarah and KBJ setting up and will need also to break it down if necessary and he only received the fire risk as the reasoning. Hopefully someone will reassure Darren that they havent encountered a health hazzaard they should be aware of.

We could help put this on via Potbank if we can open up the doorway into the Meadows as per our previous proposals and house it in the immediate area behind Potbank in the Meadows. This would keep the exhibit in the main area and footfall for the bcb and would also benefit the dust exhibition, claybody and the keele festival. If you will let us proceed with this we will pay for all the works and write an event management plan to be able to open as planned on 13th September. We will do all we can to make this work entirely at our expense. It is a really important event for Spode and we want it to go ahead.

Let me know if you would.like us to do this and we will make a detailed proposal but we can only do this if the access and space in the Meadows is available as we need to work this around our other events during the bcb.

Thanks.

Jeff

Jeff Nash

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Friday, August 23, 2019 11:45:51 AM To: Jeff Nash

Cc: Centre Space ; James Dunn Subject: RE: Fwd: Building 6 - Spode Works

Hi Jeff

Thanks for your email.

The reason behind building 6 no longer being available is a risk of silica dust, which like asbestos, is not an easy fix.

I have copied in James who should be able to advise further.

We have offered a number of alternative locations for the exhibition and can only apologise that this risk was not picked up before.

Best wishes

Dan

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, Abi Brown Cc: Centre Space Subject: Fwd: Building 6 - Spode Works

I heard Section 40 (personal information) yesterday afternoon that the Council have refused to give Centre Space the license they were offered to house the Keith Brymer Jones “Absent Tribes” installation in building 6. As set out in the email below this is due to general concerns over fire risks. This is after Section 40 (p threw by hand and decorated 1,200 beakers, Section 40 (personal information) had spent days clearing out the space and setting up the exhibit which has been funded by Section 40 (personal information)

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This was a great opportunity to showcase Spode, Potbank and the regeneration story for the City in front of a TV audience of millions and has already had quite a lot of positive publicity on social media and elsewhere. To have to explain this has been axed due to a what looks like a generic fire risk concern is an embarrassment to all concerned and the city council and a disaster for Section 40 (personal informat who have invested a lot of their own money, time and effort into this exhibition.

The exhibition was due to be held in daylight supervised at all times by someone who can also act as a fire warden. The room and the building have no sources of combustion with its upper floor sealed off and very low power requirements that could even have been run on batteries. The room is 20m x 7m on the ground floor and all parts of the room are 20 paces from a double exit that can be left open when accessed by the public. All of the issues raised in the email below could easily be dealt with by adopting a practical can do and sensible approach at no significant risk to the public. Section 40 (personal information)

A satisfactory risk assessment and insurance could easily be obtained for third party liability in this small ground floor space and it would be perfectly safe for limited numbers of visitors if sensible procedures and plans are adopted. I am happy to pay our own fire risk assessors to review and deal with these issues and get liability cover from our insurers and take on the license on the basis of an event management plan we would draft and implement if the council lack the resources to do this. Please let me know if this is a possibility as I would hate to see this prestigious exhibit cancelled.

Please let me know if there is anything you can do to help us keep this exhibition in building 6.,

Thanks,

Jeff Nash

From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman; Stephen Simcox; James Dunn Cc: Ash Subject: RE: Meeting tomorrow 6th August Date: 09 August 2019 09:19:07 Attachments: Letter of concern over access and public safety 8.8.19.docx

Dan, I am sorry you were not able to make our meeting on Tuesday. You may have heard it did not go well from our point of view. It is now clear that the council has no desire to explore any of our major proposals, neither have any of our concerns about access and utilities moved any further forward. Section 40 (personal information) It is a shame as we have a very successful business in Spode, it’s a good avert for what can be achieved with these heritage assets and we would like to have expanded this with the council, Section 40 (personal information)

We will only now look at things that directly effect our current business and which we can see fit into your plans. A such we would like to deal with the following:

1. The small store room at the rear of our demise is very difficult to use as it leaks very badly and requires major expenditure on a new roof. We would like to buy this area (which is adjacent to our demise on 3 sides) so we can fix the roof. It would be simple to add this to the demise and we can bring invest in some additional conference facilities to store properly in the store room that we are currently hiring in for events.

The adjacent two storey building behind the old show rooms and directors meeting rooms also has an asbestos roof which is in a very bad state of repair. We think this building will be beyond repair very soon as the middle concrete floor is becoming very badly damaged by water. We think the risk of further water damage and even collapse of this structure is a risk to our building and a potential liability for the council. We would be willing to buy this building to fix the roof and put 3 new hotel rooms on the first flor and would find a use for the ground floor storage. If we did this project we would build and make good the roof over a corridor that would link the museum to the old display room and directors meeting rooms which are very nice spaces in a good state of repair. Section 40 (personal information) I would like to see a proposal to fix the roof as I think the risks and flooding to this structure pose a risk to our demise.

If you are interested in either of these offers please let me know and I will get Ash to draw up some plans.

2. Your main focus appears to be to open up the site to Kingsway and church street for pedestrians. If you are going to do this we would like to propose a new pedestrian access via and between our demise and the museum. This will allow a pleasant way through past the bell archways and kiln base to the church street shops, ACAVA, your new development and china halls to and from the hotel, museum and cafe and also provide a better access to the Elenora street public and front of Spode parking. We think this involves very minor works and Ash will prepare a drawing of how we think this should be set up.

3. James explained that you are not interested in our plans for the Meadows because your preferred solution is to demolish this structure for car parking. Section 40 (personal information)

If you make this space available for parking we would still like to open up our access to this space to improve our fire exits and access this parking which we would want to either buy or rent from you. We would still like to do this as soon as possible to support the remaining events that are planned for this area in the Autumn. Both the Claybody events and 3 day Keele Curiosity Festival event would really benefit from this access to the Potbank facilities. We are still willing to put this access in at our cost with a view to longer term accessing the parking, and other parts of the site as it pens up. It would also still be viable for us to put heating into the Meadows just to support these events as the plant and installation costs less than the hire charge.

We have spoken to both Claybody and Keele regarding the council’s rejection of the meanwhile use of this space but they would still really appreciate the benefit of the Potbank access for the events they have booked in with us for this year and you will receive representations from both to this effect shortly.

By the way, James, contrary to the conversation we had about Claybody moving into the China Halls for subsequent events they do not think the China Halls is a suitable venue for sit down performance art and would likely look elsewhere if the Meadows is no longer available.

4. Site access: Section 40 (personal information) . The disposal of the exit road to Eagle Rock should make this a very pressing issue. Section 40 (personal information)

We are also increasingly concerned about ideas James continues to refer to create additional access near the hotel and museum (although we have seen no plans. Section 40 (person Section 40 (personal information)

We are very happy to help you to deal with this including assisting in negotiating with Eagle Rock if you would like our help. Section 40 (personal information)

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By the way, we believe the planning application you currently have in for the Church Street should have considered this and in terms of the Access Statement is materially misleading. We could object om this basis but I do not want to hold up your potential investment so we are just going to raise the issue with you privately. We have drafted what we would consider as a reasonable objection (attached) for you to consider privately with CTD.

5. Utilities: I have been requesting a meeting/information on the plans for the site utilities for many months and raised this in emails and site user meetings. We would like to combine our plans for long term electricity supply with the council’s, this will save us both money and disruption on site. But I haven’t had any response on this whatsoever.

I was also interested to hear from James that you were planning to connect the geothermal district heating scheme to the China Halls. Our own district heating plant has the potential to be integrated with the city scheme. Section 43 (commercial interests)

As there is a lot still on this curtailed list I think it would be a good idea to arrange another meeting to go through the above, although an in principle response on these issues would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Jeff Nash t Sent: 05 August 2019 05:52 To: 'Daniel Jellyman' Cc: Ash Subject: Meeting tomorrow 6th August

Dan, ahead of our meeting/call at 3pm tomorrow, I thought I would set out issues we would like to discuss.

1. Update on Council Strategy and whether/how we fit into these plans:

We have seen in the press the proposals to demolish Gordon House to create an access to Kingsway, we are also aware via the “grapevine” that there are discussions regarding building 6 as a gallery space, building 7 for a distillery including public access, building 5 being offered to one of the artists. We are really pleased to see investment coming forward and that the council is pressing ahead with plans for the site but we also need to consider our own strategy for Potbank in the light of these proposals.

Over the past 18 months we have made proposals for developing all of the adjacent buildings either permanently or as meanwhile uses. We have also made suggestions regarding site access, parking, utilities We have prepared several presentations and aside from the occasional meeting to explain our interest we haven’t received any detailed response from the Council.

On various occasions we have offered our assistance to the council, particularly in the development of the events strategy, not only as a stakeholder in the site, but also as an organisation that has access to some of the best events expertise in the country through our interests in our London events business and our event caters. This experience involves developing events space in listed buildings in various properties and heritage sites in the City of London, including 8 Northumberland and Battersea Power Station. So far the council has not shown any interest in our offers of help.

Having received no interest from the council in using our expertise to develop its strategy, Section 40 (personal information) As someone who has invested several million into the site and willing to invest further in expanding our operations at Spode Section 40 (personal information)

As I mentioned in my emails below, until the position becomes clearer we are now focusing all our efforts on other development opportunities away from Spode.

2. Proposed Meanwhile use of the Meadows:

As I mentioned in my emails below, although it is now too late to propose events from September, we are still keen to progress this proposal. Even though I can understand that the plans for the China Halls may not make this a permanent option (Section 40 (personal inform

using this space as a very low cost meanwhile alternative to establish demand, feasibility and create momentum for the site surely must make sense. Even without major objections (which seems likely) the period of consultation, planning, funding and building out the space with the appropriate back of house, heating, sound and heat insulation and front of house facilities to support a major events venue will take a minimum of two years. The meanwhile use of the meadows warehouse would in the intervening period keep the momentum on the site and can be managed away from the inevitable disruption of the China Halls development. As I mentioned below, we have developed this proposal in consultation with a lot of the small local arts and other event operators and we are very confident that the minimal enabling expenditure to facilitate this use can be justified even for a 2 year meanwhile use. Having abandoned the plans for the September events, our next focus is the Claybody production and Keele festival both of which would benefit from the direct access to Potbank and hook up to our heating system and we would like to leave the meeting tomorrow with an understanding as to whether this is possible so we can tell Keele how we can support their events which will bring several thousand people onto the site.

3. Site access:

Although we now understand the objective of creating additional access from Kingsway, this access is unlikely to be of any use to support the logistics of events in the China Halls which will likely continue to be accessed from the Elenora Street side. As the number and type of events is likely to increase, and bearing in mind the potential for the proposed distillery and increasing refuse the site will generate, the existing access via the gate house entrance will become increasingly problematic. We made a proposal to show how this could be reconfigured to improve access and site safety. Given the wider proposals for Gordon House and China Halls we will have to make representations regarding logistics access and will make these proposals when these proposal proceed to planning. We would like to understand any plans you have and think this should also be debated with other site occupiers and other stakeholders in advance of the proposals heading to planning. We have already raised this issue with the site users committee and circulated our proposals for discussion.

4. Utilities:

We currently have on hold our proposed independent power supply proposal as we heard (again not formally) that the council’s plans for electricity supply substantially overlapped with ours. Although we are willing to set up our own supply this would obviously be more cost effective to do this together with the council to save costs and minimise disruption. I think we can also coordinate plan for providing electric car charging points which is part of our stand alone plans. We have made various requests for information, meetings both directly and through the site users committee but have received no response. I would like to agree with you that we are willing to work together to design and install the new connection and in the meantime happy to use the temporary supply as it seems to be working reliably. However, we need to understand some details on what the council is planning and how this also takes account of future uses.

5. Parking update? – the site still has no plan for parking or even a temporary strategy to manage parking.

6. Development priorities, subject largely to the position becoming clearer re the above we would like to discuss (in order of priority):

a. Acquiring the storage area we currently license to the rear of our demise. The roof of this building is completely shot and needs to be replaced. It leaks very badly (as do the adjacent roofs) and is becoming unusable. We would like to purchase this area so we can permanently fix the roof as soon as possible. b. Building 5: We would develop this into 6 hotel rooms and additional offices/coworking space we can easily let. We would like to acquire this subject to parking, utilities and access issues being resolved c. Single storey block. We continue to be interested in developing this space in line with the proposals we made last year, in the meantime these buildings are deteriorating badly and suffering from extensive leaks and dry rot (as we predicted this is also manifesting itself in damage to the external render on Elenora street which looks really untidy) d. The directors meeting rooms and lower warehouse, the roof of the section immediately behind potbank is in a really bad state and at some risk. At our meeting last year you said you thought this area was promised to the museum but received no confirmation. It needs attention from someone soon before it becomes a major liability.

I am looking forward to discussing all this tomorrow.

Thanks,

Jeff From: Jeff Nash Sent: 26 July 2019 10:48 To: Daniel Jellyman Cc: Ash ; Stephen Simcox ; Julian Lythgoe Subject: RE: Proposed Meanwhile use of the Meadows as a theatre/exhibition space

Dan, I noticed that the Council was installing lights into the Meadows Warehouse and heard from both Dust Rising and Claybody that their events would now go ahead with the benefits of these works. We heard that these works were necessitated by H&S concerns and would be very happy to help in any way and would even have tendered for this work if you thought our input would be useful but we are currently barred from even entering these spaces.

Over a month ago we made a proposal to enhance the use of this space by creating access to the Potbank facilities, toilets, F&B, heating, green rooms etc. (attached) and had been planning to introduce other events into the programme from September to support and enhance plans related to the BCB. In the meantime we have had no response and have been told in no uncertain terms that we are not to look at any event or proposals for the Meadows or discuss these facilities (or any other spaces on Spode) with other interested parties. As a result, we have shelved all these plans and cancelled the events we had planned for September and are no longer looking at any additional plans in Spode until we hear from the council.

We are continuing to receive interest from a number of organisations that would like to hold events in the combined Meadows Warehouse/ Potbank Space and we are currently turning them away (few of these events make any sense without access to heating, toilets, front of house so there is no prospect of these using the Meadows on its own and for similar reasons these events will not be suitable for the China Halls). Section 40 (personal information)

Adding in our facilities is certain to enhance the events that are planned for this space (including the Dust Rising and Claybody events). This will add value to these events, likely see a lot more events and additional revenue for the council and really activate this part of the site at minimal cost and in no time at all.

We are still keen to progress this idea and the works the council have started will make this easier for us to execute. We are also still willing to fund the access through from the Meadows to Potbank in time for the BCB (it can be done in a few days as its just reopening a previously existing access between these areas). We would also very much like to start the process of installing heating attached to our system particularly for the Claybody play and the Keele Curiosity Festival in November (the cost of attaching a system to our renewables is less than the amount Claybody paid to hire a smaller polluting diesel system last year) . If the council is interested in working with us we need to know as soon as possible because it will effect the plans for the Claybody play. With heating and access, the play will be written with an interval, without it, it will be written without a break due to the difficult logistics of managing the audience in and out of the current inadequate entrances and keeping them warm in the break. Similarly, with the access to the Meadows, the Keele Curiosity festival goes from a small event in the Potbank Spaces to a much bigger event in the joined spaces - but the Steering Committee for this event urgently needs to know this now so they can start to curate and commission the exhibits.

I know we have a meeting in the diary for the 6th August and would like this on the agenda hopefully with a view to proceeding with this. However, currently it appears to us that the Council has already decided to pass on our proposal. If this is the case I would like to know this as soon as soon as possible so that I can notify the Claybody, Keele etc. and the other stakeholders interested in staging events in the Meadows that the Council is not interested in working with us in the Meadows. Section 40 (personal information)

We developed these ideas from talking to a lot of local organisations and stakeholders and received a lot of support and encouragement to make this proposal. The plan is cost effective, revenue generating almost immediately and activates a part of the site that is underutilised. To create a venue with this potential would take years and cost millions. Section 40 (personal information)

Thanks,

Jeff Nash

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 08 July 2019 17:19 To: 'Jeff Nash'

; Abi Brown Subject: RE: Spode

Hi Jeff

Thank you for your email.

Your involvement in Spode is crucial to the on-going development of the site. However, I am afraid that local government cannot react as quickly as private businesses can.

I am aware that there are a few live enquiries into building 5, in addition to the one you have mentioned below. I have yet to receive a further update on Spode, my last one being two weeks ago. However, I will look into this and get back to you.

Best wishes

Dan

From: Jeff Nash [Section 40 (personal information) ] Sent: 04 July 2019 17:07 To: Daniel Jellyman; Abi Brown Cc: Ash Subject: Spode

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Section 40 (personal information) I would just like this confirmed so we can focus our future business elsewhere.

Can you clarify for me?

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Jeff Nash Sent: 18 June 2019 12:35 To: Stephen Simcox ; Julian Lythgoe Cc: [email protected] ; Daniel Jellyman ; Abi Brown ; Ash ; Cathy Nash

Subject: Proposed Meanwhile use of the Meadows as a theatre/exhibition space

Please find attached our proposal for incorporation a temporary access to the Meadows warehouse from Potbank. This is a “meanwhile” use that will provide a much needed space for local theatre, arts and commercial events. There is already a full schedule of events either booked in or ready to book in to use this space in the 4th quarter of this year that could bring over 40,000 people through the site, revolving principally around the BCB and Claybody Theatre events. These works would significantly enhance the potential and audience experience for these events and create a framework for a lot of other events to use this space and really activate this part of the site which we think will inevitably spark other interest in the wider Spode Works.

Because it relies on the infrastructure we have already built in Potbank, this proposal requires minimal capital spend and would take very little time to execute. It can also be done on a basis that is viable but still keeps open the possibility of converting this space into permanent long term uses should any such plans immediately arise (bearing in mind that any such plans will typically need over a year in terms of planning etc. before being on site). On the basis that we believe this use will be in place for at least 1-2 years we are willing to entirely fund the phase 1 costs on the basis of a management agreement with the Council that we pay for the events that use the space at the same rates as in its current state and manage this space exclusively in conjunction with Potbank in the basis of a pre agreed Master Events Management Plan (this will also save significant costs on the part of the council in managing individual events with multiple promoters). This will retain the council’s income from the space which will be significantly enhanced by the increased volume of events we would put on and significantly reduce the costs of the council in managing piecemeal meanwhile uses. If successful, the council will have created a major cultural resource for nil capital investment and which will deliver enhanced revenues without compromising any potential permanent uses.

We have developed these proposals in discussion/collaboration with all of the major arts and theatre groups in the City about the potential for this space including the users who have events planned (Section 43 (commercial interests) ). These organisations are listed in the presentation and we have widespread support for this proposal from amongst this group of stakeholders who would all consider events in the combined Potbank/Meadows spaces subject to the delivery of the enhanced facilities and audience experience obtained though linking directly to Potbank. There is a great deal of excitement about this type of space becoming immediately available in this format and we believe that if approved this would create very significant favourable publicity for the site and may also spark other developments.

In all the conversations we have had it has been made clear that the other available spaces within the site are not suitable for these uses or audience numbers. Specifically, the China Hall is felt to have very significant issues for these types of uses, even if it included some of the basic infrastructure like toilets and refreshments:

The sweet spot for the local independent theatre and arts groups, large commercial events, conferences etc is around 2-300 far too small to work in the China Halls, although some of these events can go to the Mitchell Arts Theatre or the Rep, neither of these spaces have the flexibility afforded by a large open studio space. Without heating the China Halls is not suitable for theatre or meeting style uses outside of about 10 weeks in the summer which overlaps with summer holidays (the capacity to heat the Meadows is already there in Potbank). The China Halls has significant issues with achieving black outs and suitable acoustics for speech and theatrical music (the acoustic in the Meadows are good and proven from the Claybody productions and black outs can be installed for £250). The open spans in the China Halls are very much restricted by the structural columns in the spaces which restrict lines of site (the Meadows is a single span structure larger than any of the column free spaces in the China Halls). For meeting style events Potbank already provides access to suitable break out spaces and the hotel.

All of these problems could be resolved in the China Halls but it will take millions of pounds and several years to deliver through planning etc. with no real idea as to the feasibility. This Meadows proposal can allow the Council to assess the feasibility and demand for these types of events without expensive external consultation and planning costs or the very significant build costs for these types of events to work in the China Halls.

This proposal can be achieved within a time frame that creates a very significant impact on the site in time for the very large footfall that will be generated by the BCB with its national and international audience. We would very much like to get on with this and deliver it for September. Would it be possible to arrange a meeting to discuss the feasibility of this on site as soon as possible?

Thanks,

Jeff Nash From: Jeff Nash To: Randolph Conteh Cc: Ash Subject: Re: Meeting with Cllr Conteh Date: 16 July 2019 11:39:37

I'm sorry but I am on Holiday. Ash would be happy to show Randy around without me. Otherwise I'm back on 20th August.

Let me k ow what suits you.

It will be nice to have a chat about what is going on.

Thanks.

Jeff Nash

From: Section 40 (personal information)@stoke.gov.uk> on behalf of Randolph Conteh Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 12:27:20 PM To: 'Jeff Nash' Subject: Meeting with Cllr Conteh

Morning Jeff

Cllr Conteh has asked me to contact you to arrange a meeting between the two of you and also to have a look around the site, etc (Cllr Conteh is the Ward Councillor for Penkhull and Stoke, Cabinet Member for Communities and Safer City).

I’ve had a look at his diary and he is available on Friday 26 July and Friday 2 August. Would any of these dates be convenient for you?

I’ll provisionally hold in his diary.

Many thanks

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From: Jeff Nash To: Section 40 (personal in Cc: Ash Subject: RE: Meeting with Cllr. Jellyman Date: 15 July 2019 11:26:20

Sorry Section 40 (per I am away from 27th July for 3 weeks. I am happy to do a conference call with Ashley in attendance. We have some things we would like to know where we stand on as soon as possible, including our proposal for the meanwhile use of the meadows as this is something we would like to do to enhance the programme for the BCB.

Thanks,

Jeff Nash From: Section 40 (personal information)@stoke.gov.uk> Sent: 12 July 2019 16:00 To: 'Jeff.nash@Section 40 (personal information) Subject: Meeting with Cllr. Jellyman

Good afternoon Jeff

Cllr. Jellyman has asked me to arrange the above re. Dog & Bone Projects Ltd involvement in Spode. Could you kindly let me know by return if you are available on Tuesday 6 August, 3pm? Apologies that I can only offer this date, however due to other diary commitments, it’s the earliest I can offer otherwise we will be looking towards end August/early September.

Thank-you & regards

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The room is free so I have booked it out for you. We will set the room up with chairs rather the benches. Although Cllrs Brown and Jellyman have been up there can I just remind you that it does have several flights of stairs (although the view is worth it!) so it worth checking that none of the attendees have any mobility issues with this.

Can I ask you to liaise with Section 40 (personal information) on the lunch, timing etc. so they can agree timings, menus, dietary requirements, budgets etc. As I mentioned logistically this is easier if we do a summer light cold menu similar to the one the Cllrs enjoyed with us a few weeks ago.

Also please let me know if the party are arriving in a minibus and we will arrange for parking to be held for them to arrive.

By the way the suite is called the “Tower Suite” (although it is also used as a bridal suite it is used more by corporates for meetings etc.).

Thanks, Se

Jeff

From: Section 40 (personal information)@stoke.gov.uk> Sent: 02 July 2019 12:25 To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) Subject: Pot Bank - lunch 11 July

Hi Jeff

Further to our telephone conversation, Cllr Jellyman has asked if you could accommodate a lunch at 12.30pm on Thursday, 11 July in the ‘Bridal Suite upstairs’? There will be 9 people in attendance.

Kind regards Section 40 (pe

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From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman Cc: Section 40 (personal information) Subject: RE: Parking Copeland St Date: 26 June 2019 14:47:07 Attachments: image002.png

Sure it was Section 40 (personal information)

Our problem with the Carlton Estate is that the Copeland Street parking is Section 40 (personal information)

. Zone E also covers Vale Street and it would be better if these council officers parked there and walked a little further as that car park is usually fairly empty as there are limited commercial businesses there. In terms of maximising council revenue that would be a better strategy moving the council workers to the empty parking and getting extra P&D revenue for the popular ones. Copeland Street could be very profitable and help the local businesses with drop in parking.

I just checked this, Vale St more or less empty, Copeland St 1 space.

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 26 June 2019 14:14 To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) Subject: Parking Copeland St

Hi Jeff

Hope you are well.

Could you put me in contact with the chap we spoke to at Carlton House about parking issues?

Cheers

Dan

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Dog and Bone Projects Ltd – That is novel, we don’t get many cheques these days! Have a good weekend.

Thanks,

Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 21 June 2019 12:04 To: jeff_nashSection 40 (personal inform Subject: RE: Invoice BK1 from Dog and Bone Projects Ltd for [email protected]

Thanks Jeff

Who do we make the cheque out to?

Thanks

Dan

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From: Jeffery Nash Date: Friday, 21 Jun 2019, 11:56 am To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Invoice BK1 from Dog and Bone Projects Ltd for [email protected]

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Hi,Dan,

Apologies for not getting this to you sooner, I do not normally send out bills and the guys passed this up to me and I forgot about it. This is the invoice for the Champagne and Pizza/Oatcakes we did for you in Potbank. I hope you find this in order and its made out to the right entity.

Thanks,

Jeff Nash

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Thanks, Dog and Bone Projects Ltd

Dan, Abi, thanks for taking the tie to come and look around our group of tenants and for staying for a very interesting lunch.

It is clear that our approach to developing these buildings is working and there is a lot of potential for us to continue expanding around the Spode project. However as of today we are at a bit of an halt in Spode as all our most recent approaches regarding doing other things on the site have been turned down. As a result for this year we now have 3 other developments that will be linked to our Spode businesses that we have either started or have in planning, Section 40 (person . Hopefully we can get together soon to see if we can get more of Spode underway with you, in particular building 5, the Elenora Street block and the Meadows where we have a really clear idea of what we will do and can make progress very quickly. We are also very willing to help you out with any wider strategic direction for the site Section 40 (personal information) – including access and parking and how to deal with blight that the absence of any progress on the Eagle Rock site causes for the site’s potential.

The BCB will inevitably bring Spode into the spotlight, both locally and nationally and I hope we can make some progress before this starts in September.

Thanks again for your time.

Jeff Nash From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman; Abi Brown Subject: Lunch tomorrow Date: 13 June 2019 11:22:42 Attachments: Meadows Warehouse - Spode Works Theatre Proposal June Budgets (1).pdf

I am looking forward to meeting with you tomorrow and lunch with our tenants which I am sure you will find interesting. Section 40 (personal information)

Whilst you are going to be with us I thought I would share with you a proposal we are working on and will be putting to the council formally next week, we have been discussing with various people and organisations the types of events being held in the China Hall and Meadows, including the Claybody run and we are convinced we can enhance, improve the cost effectiveness, participant and audience experience by properly linking to the facilities we have developed in Potbank. Section 43 (commercial interests)

I’m looking forward to meeting with you.

Thanks,

Jeff Nash From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman; Abi Brown Subject: Potbank Date: 07 May 2019 09:48:10

Thanks for coming to Potbank for your well earned celebration. It was great to see everyone in such good form and full of enthusiasm for the task ahead. Attached are a couple of pics I took. We are looking forward to working with you over the next five years and would really like to help you get things moving. Thanks for also being the Guinea pigs for our Pizza and Oatcakes experience. We have a bit of work to do on that concept but everyone seemed to enjoy it and managed to devour everything!

Whilst you have all been in purdah we have developed a lot further the concept of the pop up theatre, events and conference space in the big meadows linking into to Potbank. Using our existing infrastructure this space can be brought forward very quickly for very little cost and have a major impact on the site complementing the bigger spaces in the China Halls and Kings Hall. I am very much looking forward to presenting that to you, particularly as we have already got interest in running several theatre events in addition to the Claybody, fringe events for the BCB, an inside stage for the jazz festival we want to put on at the end of summer and some interest in corporate events. I think this can also be done in a way that will generate net revenue for the council for this space whilst long term plans are made. I hope we get the chance to look at this and other thing we think we can help in moving the site forward.

Dan, re the event can you let me know who we should invoice?

Thanks again and good luck!

Jeff

We will let you know when the Channel 4 show airs, it's a hive of activity over there this morning with film crews etc. From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Urgent - Spode venue Date: 06 May 2019 09:36:45

Thanks. Let me know if you want to do the sign photo. I'll understand if you just want to do this as a private do. You will be amazed when you see the sign!

Jeff

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From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 9:27:41 AM To: Jeff Nash Subject: RE: Urgent - Spode venue

Hi Jeff

Looking at around 20-25 people tonight. Drinks wise, could we have champagne on arrival please, that we’ll pay for as part of the price of the venue. Afterwards, I’m sure people would be happy with beer, wine, gin and whiskey.

Best wishes Dan

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From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Date: Monday, 06 May 2019, 9:17 am To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Urgent - Spode venue

Hi Dan. Can you just confirm numbers for tonight - we need to make up the dough this morning.

Fyi attached P!

Jeff Nash

From: Jeff Nash Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2019 7:23:57 PM To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Urgent - Spode venue

Section 40 (personal in Dan I have arranged for one bar staff for the cafe to keep an eye on the kiln and help you out with oatcakes and pizza. The bar will be cash. Is there anything special drinks wise you would like. The kiln and food will be £10 per head a mixture of oatcakes and Section 40 (p pizza. Any particular toppings? There will plenty to play around with. will clear up when you are done. I will pop down to say hi. It's going to be a bit chilly outside so you should have jumpers etc but the kiln will keep you hot and we will get a log fire going in the cafe.

Tomorrow we are putting up the final bit of landscaping it's a tiled ceramic sign that will be Stoke's answer to the Hollywood sign - it is very big, made from hand pressed tiles from a 100 year old machine and decorated with decals we found on the floor when we took over which is a nice way to close the project. Channel 4 are there tomorrow and will be filming a slot with Ash putting up the last letter on the sign. If either you or any of your group want to stage that photo when you arrive it will make a nice shot "putting the P on Potbank"! Let me know if you want to do this. The film crew will not be around when you are there.

Thanks.

Jeff

Jeff Nash From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2019 12:37:39 PM To: Jeff Nash Subject: RE: Urgent - Spode venue

Oatcakes and pizza sounds perfect, we could do with a gluten free option as well please. Baked aslaka sounds great as well!

Best wishes

Dan

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Date: Saturday, 04 May 2019, 7:47 am To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Urgent - Spode venue

Great. You will be the first proper customers/guinea pigs for this! It makes great photos for the social media as well and Phil will make sure you won't set fire to each other! Do you want to mix oatcakes and pizzas and do you have any dietary requirements. Veggie is easy with this but we can do gluten free and vegan.

There is also a baked Alaska ice cream you can have which also goes in the oven.

Jeff

Jeff Nash

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2019 7:33:53 AM To: Jeff Nash Subject: RE: Urgent - Spode venue

Sounds fun! We will do our own in the kiln with your supervision! Thanks Dan

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Date: Saturday, 04 May 2019, 7:31 am To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Urgent - Spode venue

Jets some pics of people doing their own oatcakes...Section 40 (personal information)

Jeff Nash

From: Jeff Nash Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2019 7:28:27 AM To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Urgent - Spode venue

I'm just checking staffing. One idea we are playing around with for food is just supervising guests doing pizza and oatcakes in the kiln. We will provide the dough and basic ingredients and some help. It's fun and good icebreaker. I can't get the pizza chef in Monday but all the pizzas turn out well and I can get the oatcake kilnman in to supervise.

Otherwise we will just come up with some canapes etc.

Playing with the oven is more fun and cheaper!

Let me know what you prefer and I will come back with details

Thanks.

Jeff

Jeff Nash

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2019 6:20:34 AM To: Jeff Nash Subject: RE: Urgent - Spode venue

That sounds perfect, I meant 11pm sorry!

Please let me know the cost of room hire.

See you Monday hopefully at 6pm!

Best wishes

Dan

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Date: Friday, 03 May 2019, 7:35 pm To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Urgent - Spode venue

I think that number would be nice in the cafe. We can put on a log fire and light up the kiln for some nibbles. I'll organise something. Did you really mean 11am or was it a late one last night? Jeff

Jeff Nash

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Friday, May 3, 2019 7:24:42 PM To: Jeff Nash Subject: RE: Urgent - Spode venue

Hi Jeff

Yes it is a bank holiday. I’d say for about 15 - 20 people.

We’d need drinks and some nibbles.

Looking at 6pm till probably about 11am?

Best wishes

Dan

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Date: Friday, 03 May 2019, 6:59 pm To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Urgent - Spode venue

If that's this Bank holiday Monday I am sure we can do that. How many is it for and would you like any food. I'm sure you will need a drink! Well done to you and Abi. I'm glad people voted on local issues.

Channel 4 have a film crew there and doing some interviews that day but I think the evening is fine.

Let me know the details and I'll organise something for you.

Thanks.

Jeff

Jeff Nash

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: Friday, May 3, 2019 6:42:29 PM To: Section 40 (personal informa ion) Subject: Urgent - Spode venue

Hi Jeff Hope you are well.

I’m looking to organise a celebratory drinks reception for this coming Monday.

Would it be possible to have a private room at Spode?

Thanks

Dan

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From: Jeff Nash To: Abi Brown Cc: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Conference space Date: 24 January 2019 10:13:14

Abi great to see you at Potbank for the Keele launch yesterday. We are are seeing a lot of potential for theCitycoming from Keele already and look forward to this evolving further and hopefully this will end up with their creative hub coming to Spode which I know they are considering. If you need any help from us in persuading them to take this option we would be happy to help. They already do a lot of business in Potbank and we have a great relationship with them via multiple contacts. We have groups in the hotel all the time and they are now regularly hosting events with us (including yesterday we will have hosted 6 events this month).

As you can see from yesterday we are at the limits size wise for hosting conferences in Potbank and can't meet the demand we have for bigger events (like the LEP event we went to on Friday). There is a space behind Potbank we can easily.lik to our facilities that is currently full of museum display cabinets. As this stuff is being cleared up to the old nightclub in February this space becomes empty. We are confident we can convert this into a sit down venue for 200+ which is a size of space that will sit between the Kings and China Halls and our space.

We have an enquiry we are dealing with for a national conference in May for the Permaculture Association on sustainability and regeneration. Currently we have this pencilled in for the meadows but I think it's too small for that space. They want a rough and ready urban space and will put on exhibitions and smaller sessions in Potbank and the museum. As it's a national event they will also need 150+ hotel rooms for 3 days which will be a big boost to that sector. It is national event that will get great coverage.

As I mentioned I am seeing Dan in February about other expansion of Potbank but I would like to discuss bringing this this one off event into this space as a feasibility study for us to redevelop it into a permenant conference space. If it works it will be a better plenary space for events like yesterday and it would open up a number of other opportunities for small concerts, exhibitions etc and make great rehearsal spaces.

Thanks again for coming to Potbank.

Jeff Nash From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 16 January 2019 14:36 To: Section 40 (personal informat Subject: Re: Spode 2019 plans

Sorry I am out of town until 7th from 30th Jan. Outside of these dates I am quite flexible. Jeff

Jeff Nash

From: Section 40 (personal information) @stoke.gov.uk> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 1:53:04 PM To: 'Jeff Nash' Subject: RE: Spode 2019 plans

Dear Jeff

Further to e-mails below and required meeting, please could you kindly let me know by return if you will be available to meet with Cllr. Jellyman on Thursday 7 February, 10:00am.

Thank-you & regards

From: Daniel Jellyman Sent: 15 January 2019 17:16 To: 'Jeff Nash'; James Dunn Cc: Section 40 (personal informat Subject: RE: Spode 2019 plans

Hi Jeff

Happy new year to you as well.

If you recall at our last meeting, we agreed that we would look to progress other properties on the site once we had completed on the Meadows. I am happy to sit down and go through the possibilities again, I believe that extending your current offer on the site is good for Spode and the town.

I totally agree that we should ensure that 2019 is the year we crack Spode once and for all.

I have copied in Julie who will look to arrange a meeting for us.

Best wishes Dan

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 15 January 2019 15:56 To: James Dunn; Daniel Jellyman Subject: Spode 2019 plans

Hi, Happy New Year!

As you probably know we completed the acquisition of the Meadows with the council just before Xmas and this is now allowing us to focus on our plans for 2019 and beyond. The existing business is off to an exciting start to 2019 - after a quiet holiday period it looks like the hotel will be up to full capacity again before the end of the month (which is really very good for the time of year), we have also been given an award by Bookings.com as the top rated hotel in the City in 2018 in terms of customer reviews and the hotel has been shortlisted to appear in a Channel 4 property show which should also improve our profile. We have a couple of refinancing transactions to complete and we will be aiming to start on some very attractive plans for the landscaping of the outside for the late spring which will bring another dimension to the venue which will include plans for some outdoor community events in the summer and hope to do over 30 weddings this year.

However, sadly our wider plans for Spode now unfortunately seem to have hit the buffers. As you know our offer to take the offices across the courtyard were rebuffed (these buildings remain derelict and are now leaking into the museum ceilings). We also made a proposal for the development of building 5 and other areas in October but there seems to be no interest in taking these forward. In the face of this we have turned our attention to continuing expansion in Stoke Town outside of Spode. We were able to accommodate the main tenant we had for the offices International Paper in Carlton House (they will move in in February), we have also put in plans to convert one of our warehouses into short term let loft apartments and now purchased 2 adjacent houses to Spode all of which can be used to supplement the “pied a Terre” product we offer at the Potbank hotel and have started discussions on another hotel building in Stoke Town we can (without the planning and listed buildings constraints of Spode) convert in 2019 to more than treble our peak period hotel/pied a Terre capacity. We are doing this because the demand for the product is clearly there, however it is really disappointing we haven’t been able to fulfil any of these plans within Spode as strategically we would prefer this but there currently seems to be no active interest in us doing so from the council.

I would like to know whether there is any point in us pursuing any further expansion in Spode? If so I think we would like a much clearer understanding of what your overall strategy is in terms of anchor activities/tenants, access and dealing with the Section 40 (personal information) . Failing anything else we are also willing to provide you with our own input into the council’s plans, both as stakeholders in the site and to provide you with some access to our expertise, particularly with any elements that involve an expansion of the events activities. As I mentioned in my previous emails, Section 40 (personal information) own one of the best events operations in central London and Section 40 (personal information)

I would be happy to meet to discuss any of the above and hope the site can make some significant progress in 2019 after the false starts with Make, Big Box etc in 2018.

Regards, Jeff Nash

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Ok I will draft something ahead of the meeting.

Thanks

Jeff Nash

From: Section 40 (personal information)@stoke.gov.uk> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 4:57:39 PM To: 'Jeff Nash' Subject: RE: Meeting with Cllr Jellyman

Hi Jeff

Thank you for the offer to host – I will update the calendar appointment.

I’ve spoken to Cllr Jellyman and he has advised that the meeting was at your request and was a catch-up meeting to discuss items related to Spode?

Many thanks Section 40 (per

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 09 July 2018 16:52 To: Section 40 (personal information Subject: RE: Meeting with Cllr Jellyman

Thanks, If it is appropriate, I can host the meeting in one of our rooms at Potbank if they would like – we have better coffee etc!

I look forward to receiving the agenda.

Jeff

From: Section 40 (personal information)@stoke.gov.uk> Sent: 09 July 2018 16:34 To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) Subject: RE: Meeting with Cllr Jellyman

Hi Jeff

Many thanks for getting back to me. Could we please confirm 9.30am on 30th August.

I haven’t got an agenda from Cllr Jellyman however when he is next in the office I will ask the question.

I have sent a calendar invitation through however in the meantime should you need anything further please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards Section 40 (per

From: Jeff Nash [Section 40 (personal information) ] Sent: 06 July 2018 21:11 To: Section 40 (personal information Subject: Re: Meeting with Cllr Jellyman

I will be back by then, happy to meet and currently I have no appointments on that date. Is there an agenda?

Thank you.

Jeff Nash

From: Section 40 (personal information) @stoke.gov.uk> Sent: Friday, July 6, 2018 5:07:23 PM To: 'Jeff Nash' Subject: Meeting with Cllr Jellyman

Dear Jeff

Cllr Jellyman has asked me to find a convenient date for you both to meet. Meeting to also include 2 officers from the city council - James Dunn, Assistant Director of Investment, Planning and Regeneration, and Neil Clarke, Development Programme Manager.

Do you have any availability for a meeting on 30th August at any of the following times?

9.30am 12.30pm 4.00pm

Apologies this date is a few weeks away, with existing appointments and annual leave commitments, I’ve struggled to find a free date. I will of course keep an eye on calendars and should an earlier date/time because available I will contact you.

I’ll provisionally hold both dates in the diary. My contact details are below if you would like to contact me.

Many thanks Section 40 (personal inform

Section 40 (personal information) | Cabinet Office Support and PA (Supporting Cllr Jellyman, Cllr Conteh and Cllr Powell-Beckett) From: Jeff Nash To: Section 40 (personal info Cc: Ash Subject: Re: Potbank and housing Date: 22 June 2018 10:54:28

4.30 on the 28th is fine. We need about 30mins when we can see briefly a couple of properties he will find very interesting. We will then return to Potbank.

We are doing an open event in the evening which starts around 5.45 which is a singer we have organised as pre match entertainment and food before the England v Belgium world cup game. These are the sort of events we want to engage more people from the local ward so it would be good for him to see that set up and he is very welcome to stay for all or part of that event and bring anyone else he thinks might be interested in a personal capacity.

In the meantime I will send Randy an email on how our products fit into the local housing picture including how these integrate with things like the Fortoir projects which we know he will find very interesting.

Thanks

Jeff Nash

From: Section 40 (personal information)@stoke.gov.uk> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 10:01:29 AM To: 'Jeff Nash' Subject: RE: Potbank and housing

Morning Jeff

Cllr Conteh has asked me to have a look at his diary and try and find a convenient date for you to meet.

Would any of the following be OK for you for a meeting at the civic centre

28th June at 4.30pm Or 4th July at 11am

I’ll provisionally hold both dates in the diary. My contact details are below if you would like to contact me.

Many thanks Section 40 (personal inform

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Office of the Leader of the Council City of Stoke-on-Trent Civic Centre Glebe Street Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1HH From: Jeff Nash To: Randolph Conteh Cc: Ash Subject: Re: Potbank and housing Date: 20 June 2018 07:56:30

Thanks. We would like to show you briefly 3 properties that you will find interesting. As I mentioned between the hotel and our particular type of student accommodation we are serving a very important but neglected sector that deals with recent graduates and relocating young people people in employment or traiing. The traditional products in the market like shared terraces are a real step backwards from modern student accommodation. The major gripe being sharing bathrooms that are generally accessed through the kitchens in traditional terraces. We have reimagined the terrace house to deal with this and make these properties suitable for moving on graduates. I think it will really surprise you!

We look forward to showing you this and talking about other things Potbank. Please let me know when suits you.

Thanks.

Jeff Nash

From: Randolph Conteh <.@..> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 1:38:31 PM To: Jeff Nash Cc: Ash Subject: RE: Potbank and housing

Jeff,

Many thanks for the tour and hospitality.

I will schedule an hour next week and have a conversation over coffee.

Regards,

Cllr Conteh (Randy)

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From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Date: Tuesday, Jun 19, 2018, 11:47 AM To: Randolph Conteh Cc: Ash Subject: Potbank and housing

Hi Randolph. Thanks for taking the time to come into Potbank. We would really like to talk to you about a couple of things.

My project manager Ashley has already written to you about a number of things we are doing in the housing sector where what we do is very complemtary to to what you are Section 40 (personal information) doing at Fortoir. We mentioned this to . We are a feeder of graduating students, other recent graduates and people relocating in to the area who use our hotels and other long term accommodation. Overall we feed about 200 people a year into the more established sectors of the market an Fortoirs products will be aimed very much at this segment. So there is good reason for us to work together.

In addition we very much want the Potbank facilities to be a hub for the local community. As we mentioned the outside space will be great for concerts etc. And we have a number of events that people will enjoy coming to like the football on the big screens and the book launch tonight. The spaces are also available for use by local societies and other groups. It is the only neighbourhood events space in Stoke and we want local people to use it so we would like tour help in promoting it to the people in the ward. If you get a chance to pop in during the England games coming up please let me know. We are putting on entertainment before the games (we have a singer on Sunday and Penhull Ukelele next Thursday). It would be great if you can help us promote these to the ward if you have a Twitter etc feed as we'd love more locals to come and see the facilities.

Let me know when you have time to pop in for a coffee in the cafe.

Thanks.

Jeff Nash

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To find out more about how we use your personal data visit stoke.gov.uk/dataprotection. From: Jeff Nash To: ashley booth; Daniel Jellyman; Neil Clarke (LEFT) Cc: David Hughes; Linda Mongey; Parwin Khaliq; Joy.Hancock; [email protected] Subject: Spode Potbank Update Date: 18 January 2018 12:55:51

Following on from our meeting in December, I wanted to update you on the plans for the new year and some help we need in moving forward.

We have seen really strong interest in events and use of the hotel since returning from the Christmas break. We have lots of enquiries for weddings and other events coming in even before we have started marketing in earnest. In addition, we are also seeing a lot of evidence that the hotel sector is very short of capacity in the city (our Newcastle operation is already back up to full occupancy which is a really good sign for early January).

In the light of all this we are determined to finish the project as soon as possible and are targeting April to open the hotel to the public. We have yesterday completed the works on main the external facades and pushing on with the internal works. This effort should see the whole of the events spaces (including the kitchens and events bar) completed in February and we have the first “Potbank” wedding scheduled for late February..

If we can get the development to completion by the end of Spring it will be really good for the site and we are sure it will help push on interest for other parts of the site. We have a lot of interest in the development from external media, including national media and local TV who want to run stories on our development which is also likely to take in the wider Spode Works projects. This will produce some great publicity for the site and proof that these kind of developments on the site can be realised with private investment and no subsidy or financial support whatsoever from the council.

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The key things we need some flexibility on are as follows (with the required decisions highlighted):

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At our meeting we also discussed building 5 and car parking. Having looked at the issues we are convinced that the parking situation is manageable for the hotel and events businesses as these are mostly evenings and weekend requirements. We are really interested in bringing forward a proposal to convert the upper floors of building 5 for additional accommodation but redeveloping the ground floor will require additional parking. In addition, because of the access that will be required for this building we would like to propose us taking this building along with the parking spaces adjacent to it at the rear. These spaces should be sufficient to create viable uses for the ground floor and the recording studio. If this is something you would like to discuss please let me know, although we would not want to do this deal until the current transactions outlined above are completed. We do though have the capital available to do these developments so some idea of your interest in this sale would be useful otherwise we will consider alternative schemes for this capital.

A number of the things in this email are part of an ongoing conversation, however the items outlined above we need some formal response on or at least a confirmation that your solicitors have been instructed to accept these requirements. We are really keen to get on with this development and we would appreciate your input as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Jeff Nash

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Hi Neil,

Meeting at the Civic Offices is fine.

Please find all plans attached.

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Dan, thanks for this. We finally received our planning permission yesterday so we are now looking forward to getting moving.

I would like to get together to discuss the other issues at your earliest convenience.

At last some progress. Section 40 (personal information)

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Section 40 (perso - can we please arrange a meeting as soon as possible please?

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I would like a meeting to discuss building 5, the recording studio and closing out the existing deal. As I mentioned in my previous meeting, Section 43 (commercial interests) Section 43 (commercial interests)

The offer to buy building 5 will include the option for all or part of the ground floor being used for 2021 delivery should the bid be successful should you wish to take this option.

Can we set up a meeting to discuss this as I need to start considering whether or not to earmark my pension fund�s cash for further investment on the site?

Although in principle, we want to get on and expand our investment in the site, you should be aware that we are currently holding back on our work on Spode pending the planning permission being granted, most of the work we have done to date is either within or recoverable back to our original planning. However, we are really reluctant to push any further forward until we have the permission. Although, we have substantially the same scheme previously approved and there are no objections we are aware of it has taken now nearly 7 months since the original pre application discussions and deadlines just seem to come and go and calls just remain unreturned on what is essentially a fairly minor set of changes to the scheme. We are now on the verge of just stopping as there is just too much risk in proceeding without these approvals. Is there anything you can do to help with this Section 40 (personal information)

As you know the caf� has become a bit of a melting pot for developers and other people interested in doing things at Spode (including the big box guys and eagle rock) � they can see us getting on with the work and are really encouraged by our progress and keen to pick our brains on the experience. I am constantly getting questions about our experience with planning and Section 40 (personal information) conservation,

We can make our somewhat maverick approach work because we�ve done all of the work so far at Spode with our own equity finance � if this had been a bank financed deal we wouldn�t even have been able to start and the building would still be derelict and decaying. Section 40 (personal information)

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, I�m committed to Spode and want the additional investment to come to the site Section 40 (personal information)

If and when we get planning (which is a basic requirement to moving anything else forward), we want to get on and complete with you on the current deal as soon as possible. We have previously discussed us completing (subject to planning) when we have completed the envelope of the building. Once we get planning, we will order and complete the windows and rear doors and can complete these within 3-4 weeks and I would like to ensure that this process is completed well before the year end so that we can finish the scheme early in the new year. I suspect the legal process will take longer than the physical completion, I instructed Grindeys to get on with this some time ago but as Neville has now departed I am not sure your side is instructed to get on with this with any urgency.

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Can you let me know when we can get together to discuss all this.

Thanks,

Jeff

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Although we have taken every reasonable anti-virus measure, we give no warranty that From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman; David Hughes Cc: Ash Subject: Re: Building 5 Date: 31 October 2017 10:23:31

This message was received from outside the council STOP. Were you expecting this email? Does it look genuine? THINK. Before you CLICK on links or OPEN any attachments David/Dan if this is something you want us to make a proposal for I would like to have a meeting to discuss this, the recording studio/museum store and also some ideas we have re parking. Section 43 (commercial interests) . I think the 2021 HQ idea would be really good if we win but the offer wouldn't be contingent on this as we think the space will let really easily wth the right design as a ground floor office.

If we were to agree something we would want to start work on planning straight away as this seems to be the major issue with getting anything done on the site, as I mentioned in my previous email, as its a very similar structure to the one we are already working on we ahve a really clear idea of how we would do teh work and can do in 4 months and it would fit into our current programme on site to compelte the work by April. Section 40 (personal information)

Section 40 (personal information) As I mentioned at our meeting we are not going to commit to any further development at Spode until the uncertainty regarding the current planning and competion on the sale of this current phase. At several points weve questioned whether we should have proceeded at all with the Spode development as getting things done is more difficult than anything else we have encountered. If it wasn't for the fact that we are so passionate about getting on with the regeneration of the site we would have stopped work long ago.

If there is anything you can do do to help us on this we would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Jeff From: Jeff Nash To: Section 40 (personal in Subject: RE: Meeting - Cllr. Jellyman re. Stoke Station Masterplan Date: 25 October 2017 14:32:39

This message was received from outside the council STOP. Were you expecting this email? Does it look genuine? THINK. Before you CLICK on links or OPEN any attachments Thank you Section 40 ( , I am looking forward to this meeting. By the way, is this a private meeting with Dan or is it part of a wider discussion?

Jeff

From: Section 40 (personal information)stoke.gov.uk] Sent: 25 October 2017 12:16 To: 'Jeff Nash'

Jeff

Further document attached for your information.

Regards

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From: Section 40 (personal informa Sent: 25 October 2017 10:54 To: 'Jeff Nash' Subject: RE: Meeting - Cllr. Jellyman re. Stoke Station Masterplan

Jeff

As requested, please see attached for your info.

Regards

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 24 October 2017 16:05 To: Section 40 (personal informa Subject: Re: Meeting - Cllr. Jellyman re. Stoke Station Masterplan

Thanks. I think there was a press release on the station plans put out at MIPM. Can you please send me a copy. I would also like to bring Ashley Booth who is an apprentice with us.

Thanks.

Jeff Nash

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------Original message ------From: Section 40 (personal information) @stoke.gov.uk> Date: 24/10/2017 15:02 (GMT+00:00) To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) Subject: RE: Meeting - Cllr. Jellyman re. Stoke Station Masterplan

Thank you Jeff for coming back to me so quickly. To advise/confirm the meeting will take place tomorrow, 25 October, 4pm � please report to Main Reception upon your arrival.

Kind regards

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 23 October 2017 13:57 To: Section 40 (personal informa Cc: Daniel Jellyman Subject: Re: Meeting - Cllr. Jellyman re. Stoke Station Masterplan

That's fine.

Dan are there any papers I can look at before the meeting.

Thanks Jeff

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Dear Mr Nash

Cllr. Jellyman has asked me to get in touch with you re. arranging the above with yourself and relevant senior city council officers. I appreciate that this may be a bit short notice but just wondering if you will be available to attend a meeting this Wednesday (25 October), 4pm here at the civic centre? Please kindly advise by return and if in the event you are not available, I shall duly offer up some alternative dates/times which will be during November.

Thank-you & regards

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------Original message ------Section 40 (personal information)ction 40 (personal information) From: @stoke.gov.uk> Date: 06/10/2017 15:49 (GMT+00:00) To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) Subject: RE: Official opening of the Pot Cafe

Hi Jeff

Thank you for this. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress are really looking forward to joining and supporting the Claybody production.

Would you like their menu choices beforehand?

Kind regards.

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From: Jeff Nash [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 06 October 2017 10:03 To: Section 40 (personal information) Subject: RE: Official opening of the Pot Cafe

This message was received from outside the council STOP. Were you expecting this email? Does it look genuine? THINK. Before you CLICK on links or OPEN any attachments That is fine, I have let Section 40 (personal information)) and he will welcome them at some point in the proceedings. Attahced is the pre show menu, we will meet a 6pm, the show starts at 7.45 but has a few elements that will take place in Potbank beforehand..

For information, our guests for the evening are my wife Section 40 (personal information)

(www.8northumberland.co.uk ). Charles and I both own Potbank and our other hotel interests in Stoke. Between us we are probably the major private sector employers in Stoke Town. We have a private table set aside for the meal.

Thanks,

Jeff Nash

From: Section 40 (personal information)@stoke.gov.uk] Sent: 05 October 2017 11:43 To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) Subject: RE: Official opening of the Pot Cafe

Hi Jeff

Please don’t worry – we totally understand.

I am sure they would love to attend and support the Claybody production – would it be a problem if they attend as Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress?

No problem with the official opening – when you know the date, just drop me an email or ring me direct and we can try to fit this in.

Kind regards.

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From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 05 October 2017 11:05 To: Denise Powell Subject: Re: Official opening of the Pot Cafe

This message was received from outside the council STOP. Were you expecting this email? Does it look genuine? THINK. Before you CLICK on links or OPEN any attachments Section 40 (person I'm really sorry to mess you about but having discussed this with Claybody they want to just keep the night to their PR. I would be very happy to host the mayor and mayoress for the pre theatre dinner and provide tickets for the show if they would like to come in a non official capacity.

We are looking at dates for an opening after the Claybody show later in October. I would really like to get the mayor to come and hope we won't get blacklisted for this chopping and changing. I'll fix a firm date in our control before I get back to you.

Please let me know if the mayor and mattress would like to join us for dinner and the show.

Thanks and once again apologies.

Jeff Nash

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------Original message ------From: Section 40 (personal information)@stoke.gov.uk> Date: 27/09/2017 17:52 (GMT+00:00) To: 'Jeff Nash'

Hi Jeff,

Thank you. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress are available on Wednesday 11 October 2017 and will be delighted to join you. They are free all evening at the moment so I have reserved from 5pm until 9pm in the diary.

When you are sure of your arrangements, could you complete and return the attached mayoral engagement form?

Kind regards and good luck.

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From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: RE: Spode pics Date: 13 October 2017 08:46:40 Attachments: image002.png

This message was received from outside the council STOP. Were you expecting this email? Does it look genuine? THINK. Before you CLICK on links or OPEN any attachments I think the morning session finishes with the Spode tour which arrives with us after 12.

If I do not see you there, do try and pop in to see Dirty Laundry it is really great.

Good luck with the HS2 discussions.

Thanks.

Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 October 2017 08:30 To: 'Jeff Nash'

I will be in the morning session but have to visit Parliament in the afternoon to discuss HS2.

Hopefully I will catch you briefly. Dan

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From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 13 October 2017 08:25 To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: RE: Spode pics

This message was received from outside the council STOP. Were you expecting this email? Does it look genuine? THINK. Before you CLICK on links or OPEN any attachments Thanks, will you be at the DCMS lunch on Tuesday? If so I look forward to seeing you there.

Jeff

From: Daniel Jellyman [mailto:[email protected] ] Sent: 13 October 2017 08:07 To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) Subject: RE: Spode pics

Hi Jeff, I will see what I can do.

Best wishes, Dan

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 10 October 2017 16:01 To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: RE: Spode pics

This message was received from outside the council STOP. Were you expecting this email? Does it look genuine? THINK. Before you CLICK on links or OPEN any attachments We now have an open request for changes from the conservation officer we received last week (over six months after we submitted). Attached with our reply below.

Basically, other than some confirmatory points on designSection 40 doesn’t like the shade of red on the railings and thinks our bottle kiln/pizza oven will confuse people into thinking it’s a real one and so has suggested a few artistic embellishments of her own liking! You couldn’t really confuse it with a real Bottle oven, it is clearly a sculpture but like most art some people will love it and others hate. On balance our feedback has been broadly positive especially as there are no remaining bottle kilns on the Spode site. It is our sculpture and interpretation of a kiln and we consulted quite widely on the design. We do not want artistic input from the conservation officer, but we don’t have time to fight or appeal on this so we are withdrawing the bottle kiln from the proposal. This is a shame as its denying IBSTOCK a major project to show off their cutting edge 3d brick mould printing technology and between us and IBSTOCK (who were subsidising the cost to showcase their product at Spode) it will also pass up a £20,000 private investment. We are agreeing to everything else, although on the colour of the railings, I’d rather paint the fading Elenora St railings to the site which haven’t had a coat of paint for over 20 years!

We have had huge numbers of people go around the project and the reactions are really positive, the overwhelming sentiment is that this is what we should be doing with these buildings and is creating a buzz and a lot of other interest in the site. It also looks like we are going to be the choice for the SOT2021 DCMS show round for lunch. We’ve really worked hard to deliver this for the City in order to help with things like this. It is really disappointing that we still have this planning uncertainty overhanging our project.

Any help on this would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

From: Jeff Nash To: Daniel Jellyman Subject: RE: Potbank Development Spode Works Date: 11 August 2017 12:38:02

This message was received from outside the council STOP. Were you expecting this email? Does it look genuine? THINK. Before you CLICK on links or OPEN any attachments Hi Daniel, just a quick update. Section 40 (personal information) but the planning department seemed to have been much more responsive and have now validated the revised application which is now in its consultation period. The statutory time limit without objections is 6 weeks so I am hopeful that we can have our planning in place by the 3rd week in September so that we can open in time for the BCB. I’m pushing ahead on this assumption with a grand opening planned for 30th September. Section 40 (personal information)

The offices were handed over today and the café will be ready for action by the end of next week, although we are not going to do anything other than soft launches until after the bank holiday so that we are ready with systems, staff training etc. We are though having an informal get together next Friday 18th August from 4-6pm to mark the first phase of the opening, alongside this I am putting together a press release and inviting press to have a look at progress to date. The offices being finished with the tenant moving in is a real milestone for the site as it is the first private commercial operation to open on the site. We already have a number of bookings in the pipeline for the events centre and we are also trying to weave in the 2021 themes as we go along. Paul Williams is coming along on Friday to discuss how we can use the venue to help him. If you have time to pop down next Friday please let me know. We have invited a number of the other organisations on the site to join us and with the BCB in set up it should be an interesting crowd. In any event, I will send you the PR and you can add a quote if you would like to.

Thanks again.

Jeff Nash

From: Daniel Jellyman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 31 July 2017 10:40 To: 'Jeff Nash' Section 40 (personal information) Cc: Abi Brown Subject: RE: Potbank Development Spode Works

Dear Jeff

Thank you for your email.

Please leave this with me, I will get back to you once I’ve spoken to officers at the council.

Best wishes, Dan

From: Jeff Nash Section 40 (personal information) Sent: 30 July 2017 16:15 To: Daniel Jellyman Cc: Abi Brown Subject: Potbank Development Spode Works

This message was received from outside the council STOP. Were you expecting this email? Does it look genuine? THINK. Before you CLICK on links or OPEN any attachments Daniel, I was pleased that you were able to come and look around our development in the former Meadows Buildings at the recent opening of the Spode Museum’s retail space. Work has continued apace and we are now only a week or so away from the offices being opened and the tenant Driver Hire moving in. This will be the first independently funded project to complete on the site and I think will be a good example of what can be achieved with these heritage buildings. Likewise, the café will also have a soft opening in a couple of weeks. We are thinking of putting out some PR on this for around the 16th to the 18th August. Would you or Abi like to be part of the photo call for this? If so just let me know your availability, I will also work up some text for a press release for which you might want to supply quotes. We’ve been generating a great deal of interest from various parties who are looking forward to having events, weddings etc. and looking forward to opening up these facilities.

Sadly, progress on the remainder of the project is now completely becalmed by planning delays, I think I briefly mentioned to you when we met that we had not received validation for our application to advance into the formal planning process and this still hasn’t progressed much further putting our programme at severe risk. We were planning to try and open up a lot of the events space and some of the accommodation in time for the BCB in September and we have the potential to support several activities and events that will also help with the 2021 effort which we have discussed with Section 40 (personal information), but unless the planning process can be expedited quickly this will likely not now be possible. This is a shame as we have plans to support a number of events with the BCB, the Claybody Theatre production in the adjacent warehouse, Johnsons and other commercial organisations including the Clay School and RIBA who would like to use the accommodation and conference and events space for a variety of events - these events are now in jeopardy.

We received the full planning permission for the site in January 2016. This consent took over a year to complete the whole process including the listed building consent, despite the scheme receiving nothing but overwhelming support and not a single objection! Since we started work, and had a better chance to evaluate the building we modified the plans to include conversion of some additional warehouse space (mainly to allow for better means of escape in the event of a fire) and also a change to the format of the student accommodation/pop up hotel from cluster flats (around 5 kitchens) to self-contained studios (to mirror the successful format we have adopted at our hotel complex in Newcastle). Although the underlying uses haven’t changed and the additional space has allowed us to avoid some structural fire escape modifications to the older buildings (thus avoiding structural risk from this work to the 19th century buildings and improving overall the fire safety), the change in format of the accommodation (we have been advised) now requires a completely new application (and an additional £9,000 in planning application fees). Although as a technicality a new consent is required, it is still substantially the same scheme (with some significant improvements), so I doubt if it will encounter any more than the zero objections we received for the original application. It is therefore really frustrating for our programme to be delayed by these additional planning requirements. We understand the planning department have statutory and technical requirements to satisfy and we have agreed to the fees and re-submitted the application but we seem to be getting nowhere.

Although we have had a meeting with the planning officers, the turn-around time on anything we submit always runs into weeks and piecemeal additional requirements seem to emerge at each stage and is also revisiting issues that were unaffected by the changes to the original consent and listed building consents. Section 40 (personal information) The overall time we are likely to now spend in planning consultations is going to be more than double the time it will take us to complete the building work! On Friday we received a list of questions and requests for further information (10 weeks after the first submission of this request and daily chasing of the planning officers who have repeated missed agreed response times). We will respond to these latest requests by working all weekend and will hopefully be able to submit the information less than a working day after the request (as we have generally done in responding to anything that comes out of planning). Section 40 (personal information) . This is particularly frustrating given the lack of likely objections and support and enthusiasm for the scheme in and around the Spode site and from the other businesses in the neighbourhood. To date we have continued with our development on our own risk of not receiving consents in order to provide facilities to the BCB and support the 2021 process (the development will be an important demonstration of how cultural led regeneration can work on the Spode site) but we can’t risk completing and opening without consent for the finalised scheme. Unfortunately, if our application is not validated to commence the formal 6 week planning consultation period within the next 2 weeks we will have no alternative but to shut down the work as there will be no possibility of completing the process in time for the BCB. Is there anything you could do to help us expedite this?

We do still have the benefit of our existing permissions the consents for the offices and café, so in the meantime we will get on and finish these. We would really appreciate the opportunity to get on and finish the rest of the scheme as soon as possible.

In the meantime if you would like to pop over and review the progress, please let me know and I will arrange this at any time.

Thanks,

Jeff Nash Director – Dog and Bone Projects Ltd.