DOCSLIB.ORG

Ambitious Food Hub at New Covent Garden Market to Foster Industry Innovation

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Ambitious Food Hub at New Covent Garden Market to Foster Industry Innovation From the pages of Produce Business UK London’s New Covent Garden Market (NCGM) is pushing on with its bold venture to turn the historic wholesale market into the capital’s dominant food hub, as well as an incubator for up-and-coming food makers, creators and thinkers from the UK and beyond. PBUK uncovers the progress and plans to learn how this £200m-plus redevelopment will benefit and inspire traders, entrepreneurs, the local community and the food industry at large. As part of its grand plan to build a modern fruit, vegetable and flower wholesale market, NCGM aims to create a vibrant, 37-acre food industry campus for small businesses, featuring a food destination for consumers called the Food Quarter. Located just minutes from the new Northern Line tube station of Nine Elms opening in 2020, the venue is designed to ‘nurture the future of food’ and cement NCGM’s position at the epicentre of London’s culinary scene. “This is about securing and safeguarding the market’s future,” AlastairOwen, NCGM’s communications manager, tells PBUK. “New CoventGarden Market has been on this site since 1974. We want it to be here for generations and for it to have a firm place as thousands of new homes are built around us.” The first phase of this ambitious journey started in February [2018] with the launch of a ‘first-of-its-kind’ food innovation hub – the Food Exchange – which serves as a creative workspace, kitchen space and food culture venue for food entrepreneurs. The centrepiece of this building will open next summer [2019] in the form of London’s FreshFruitPortal.com largest shared kitchen and co-working space for small food makers, thanks to a partnership with food incubator Mission Kitchen. This also will serve as an event and meeting space for the wider community to appreciate London’s renowned food culture. Long term, NCGM’s vision is to support further small businesses and to serve the public by housing independent restaurants, cafés and food shops within a retail market area – the Food Quarter – that will source and supply fresh produce from the market’s 175 traders. “This project strengthens who we are,” Owen explains. “We want to build on our heritage and how wholesale markets can add so much value to the industry and the community, because this is where new ideas come from. “We want to be the most important place in London for food, and the wholesale market is the biggest part of that; it’s the flagship,” he continues, highlighting that the market supplies 40 per cent of the fresh produce eaten outside the home in London, as well as 20 of the capital’s top restaurants, plus cafés, schools and businesses. “We’re a market of small businesses," Owen says. "Our traders go back generations, and that’s the ethos for the place we’re building. It’s about finding and supporting small businesses.” Supporting start-ups To that end, NCGM recently opened the doors to the Food Exchange – 40,000 square feet of lettableoffice, kitchen and co-working space spanning three floors and three roof terraces. So far, the building is home to Oppo, Spoon Cereals, Wheyhey, Young Foodies, CocoPro, Joe’s Tea Company and Swig Wines, amongst others, with room for more than 130 businesses working in food. On the top two floors, private studios can be rented by teams working in food, including start-ups, recipe developers, photographers, PR agencies, magazines, stylists and writers. “The Food Exchange will start the process of NCGM becoming to food what Canary Wharf is to finance, and Old Street is to the tech industry,” claims Owen. “There isn’t somewhere like this for food, where people in the industry can work alongside each other. Food is so fragmented. Everyone says it’s about time someone did this. “We’re creating an environment that fosters innovation, a hub of knowledge and ideas FreshFruitPortal.com where over lunch you can create new ideas and partnerships.” Rory Lawson, co-founder of hydrating recovery drink supplier CocoPro, says the Food Exchange is already having a positive impact on his business since moving in at the end of April [2018]. “Being in the great space we have and with other businesses around us has opened up one or two opportunities that maybe we wouldn’t have had elsewhere,” he reveals, adding that he is “bouncing around ideas” with a couple of companies. Lawson discloses that CocoPro – a pure coconut water drink with added protein – is going to join Young Foodies, a start-up incubator based upstairs in the Food Exchange that nurtures so-called ‘challenger brands.’ “Young Foodies is looking to build a real case for young food and drink companies,” Lawson explains. “It makes sense for us to work together, to bring something to the table and to take away some learnings.” Annie Morris, the co-founder of Spoon – a healthy granola company on a mission to make breakfast better – believes her company is reaping from the shared environment too. “You have more motivation because everyone’s so like-minded,” she notes. “It’s not easy working in a start-up, but everyone’s so passionate about growing their business. I’m looking forward to more companies joining. “There are a lot of complementary brands working here; already we’ve made partnerships for marketing purposes,” she adds. Since moving in, Spoon like CocoPro, has become a member of Young Foodies. “Having them on the floor above is great,” Morris says. “They help on the operations side and give us the answers we’re looking for.” Already, Lawson is confident there are “strong collaborative opportunities” for CocoPro with other businesses located at the Food Exchange. “It’s amazing how you can tap into a number of crossovers and share ideas, or get a neutral opinion from someone,” he comments. “A community is starting to build." The facility has emerged at the right time, according to Alessio d’Antino, the founder and CEO of ForwardFooding, which facilitates collaborations between innovative food start-ups FreshFruitPortal.com and established food corporates. “It’s a well-needed space in terms of serving a community of food entrepreneurs who are just starting out,” he tells PBUK. “It will bring together a network of industry players that are hungry for innovation and new products, alongside serving the local community.” The community aspect was precisely what attracted Morris, and Lawson. “It’s an amazing concept,” Morris enthuses. “Being with other food start-ups – that appealed to us. Plus, it’s a new building. It was great timing.” As for the cost, both Lawson and Morris agree the rent is reasonable for what’s provided. Equally, they look forward to the expansion of the infrastructure. “Spoon is one of the first companies to move in, so we had a good offer,” states Morris. “The building is not pristine yet; it’s still in development, but that’s not fazed us. We’re excited to grow together.” Lawson concurs the rent is good value, while the location is solid. “It’s better than market rate; certainly for the space we get,” Lawson comments. “It’s not far to walk from Vauxhall station. “Of course, we’d all like coffee shops and convenience stores on our doorstep, but it will grow. There are plans for the ground floor [the Food Quarter] and with Mission Kitchen [the shared kitchen space]. “If they realise half of their ambitions, it’ll be a great place for our business,” he affirms. Morris adds that the new Nine Elms tube station will be a further advantage. “It will create this exciting, new hub for foodies and people supporting smaller businesses,” she concludes. D’Antino describes the facility as an “exciting, end-to-end” proposition. “I think having a 360-degree solution – from prototyping your product to understanding how to market it – will make the space a go-to destination for food entrepreneurs,” he asserts. Filling the commercial kitchen gap FreshFruitPortal.com To broaden its support for small businesses, next summer Mission Kitchen will open a shared, commercial kitchen space on the first floor of the Food Exchange, complete with professional equipment and mentorship from industry experts. Private kitchens will be available for larger companies, or those preparing free-from allergen products. Additionally, there will be co-working areas for service-providers, such as graphic designers and finance consultants. “We’re filling that gap for small businesses; for example, those baking at home that are far away from having their own commercial kitchen space,” explains Owen at NCGM. “It’s for start-ups, street traders, recipe developers and general innovators.” Mission Kitchen managing director Charlie Gent says the space, which is designed to benefit the public and local schools too, covers nearly 19,000 square feet. “That’s a lot of room to create an effective, impactful workspace for entrepreneurs, and also an educational forum for the public to engage with food and the food industry via classes, tastings, dining events, talks, indoor markets, etc.,” Gent tells PBUK. Indeed, the facility will include a cookery school for home cooks, a vocational training kitchen for professionals, an evolving food museum and a test kitchen. Outside, the two roof terraces could host anything from beehives to polytunnels for growing herbs and vegetables. “Growing food that can be used by our members directly is high on the list of priorities, as is experimenting with growing food indoors,” Gent reveals. D’Antino is certain the kitchen will add value. “We get a tonne of requests from people asking for commercial kitchen spaces to rent out,” he points out, adding that many existing facilities are too expensive for start-ups.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Nine Elms Lane Consultation Report
    Nine Elms Lane and Battersea Park Road Consultation Report March 2018 Contents Executive summary ..................................................................................................... 3 1. About the proposals ............................................................................................ 5 2. About the consultation ...................................................................................... 10 3. About the respondents ...................................................................................... 17 4 Summary of consultation responses ................................................................. 22 5. Next steps ......................................................................................................... 53 Appendix A: Detailed analysis of comments .............................................................. 54 Appendix B: Consultation questions .......................................................................... 99 Appendix C: Campaigns and petitions .................................................................... 102 Appendix D: Consultation materials ........................................................................ 105 Appendix E: Stakeholders ....................................................................................... 123 2 Executive summary Between 3 July 2017 and 20 August 2017, we consulted on proposals to transform the 2.5km stretch of road from the Vauxhall Gyratory, along Nine Elms Lane and Battersea Park Road to Macduff Road, connecting
    [Show full text]
  • Brand New Covent Garden Market 8-9
    R&A 2015/16 Cover Artwork_Cover Section 21/06/2016 14:55 Page 1 55th Report & Accounts 2015/2016 Covent House New Covent Garden Market London SW8 5NX T: 020 7720 2211 F: 020 7622 5307 www.newcoventgardenmarket.com coventgarden market authority Printed on recycled paper 55th Report & Accounts 2015/2016 Design & production: Keyline +44 (0)1403 700095 Covent Garden Market Authority Report and Accounts for the accounting period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 46 of the Covent Garden Market Act, 1961 Covent Garden Market Authority Covent House New Covent Garden Market London SW8 5NX Price £7.00 © Covent Garden Market Authority copyright 2016 The text of this document (this excludes, where present, the Royal Arms and all departmental and agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium providing that it is reproduced accurately and not in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Covent Garden Market Authority copyright and the document title specified. Where third party material has been identified, permission from the respective copyright holder must be sought. The Report & Accounts Executive Summary 4 Letter to Secretary of State 5 Chair’s Statement 6 Chief Executive’s Review 7 Brand New Covent Garden Market 8-9 New Covent Garden Market Trade 10-11 About Covent Garden Market Authority 12 Property & Project Director’s Report 13-14 Commercial Operations Director’s Report 15-17 Business Development and Support 18-19 The Wider Community 20-21 Finance Director’s
    [Show full text]
  • UNITED KINGDOM) (C426 Bis
    WESTMINSTER PALACE AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY INCLUDING SAINT MARGARET’S CHURCH (UNITED KINGDOM) (C426 bis) 1. Executive summary of the report In accordance with Decision 39 COM 7B.87, the United Kingdom State Party has produced a State of Conservation Report (SOCR) for Westminster Palace and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church World Heritage Site. This SOCR updates the Committee on changes that have been made to planning policies and to the progress of development proposals, which could be considered to affect the Outstanding Universal Value of the World Heritage Site, since the last report which was submitted to the World Heritage Centre in January 2015. Specifically, in response to the Committee’s decision, this report provides updated information on the proposed conservation works at the Palace of Westminster, the review of the World Heritage Site Management Plan and an update on the proposals at Elizabeth House in Waterloo and the Vauxhall/Nine Elms sites that have been previously discussed by the Committee. The report is structured according to the format provided by the World Heritage Centre. The clauses of the World Heritage Committee decisions are given in italic and indented. The response of the State Party is not indented and does not use italics. 1 WESTMINSTER PALACE AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY INCLUDING SAINT MARGARET’S CHURCH (UNITED KINGDOM) (C426 bis) 2. Response from the State Party to the World Heritage Committee’s Decision, paragraph by paragraph. Decision 39 COM 7B.87 The World Heritage Committee, 1. Having examined Document WHC-15/39.COM/7B, 2. Recalling Decisions 37 COM 7B.90 and 38 COM 7B.36, adopted at its 37th (Phnom Penh, 2013) and 38th (Doha, 2014) sessions respectively, 3.
    [Show full text]
  • Wandsworth Local Development Framework
    Wandsworth Local Development Framework DMPD & SSAD Proposed Submission Statement of Consultation (Committee version) April 2011 DMPD & SSAD Proposed Submission Statement of Consultation DMPD & SSAD Proposed Submission Consultation Report 1 Introduction 3 2 Consultation Undertaken – who was invited to comment and how they were invited to comment 4 3 Representations and Council's response 7 Development Management Policies Document 7 General comments on DMPD as a whole 7 Chapter 2 – Sustainable Development Principles 9 Chapter 3 – Housing 22 Chapter 4 – Town Centres and Shopping 32 Chapter 5 – Industry, Employment and Waste 41 Chapter 6 – Open Space, the Natural Environment and the Riverside 46 Chapter 7 – Community Facilities 50 Chapter 8 – Transport 51 Appendices 54 Site Specific Allocations Document 56 General Comments on the SSAD as a whole 56 Introduction 58 Chapter 2 - Nine Elms 59 Chapter 3 - Central Wandsworth and the Wandle Delta 75 Chapter 4 - Clapham Junction 83 Chapter 5 - Tooting 87 Chapter 6 - Putney 88 Chapter 7 - Balham 99 Chapter 8 - Roehampton 99 Chapter 9 - Other sites 101 DMPD & SSAD Proposed Submission Statement of Consultation Chapter 10 - Other Thames Riverside sites 102 Appendices 104 4 Next steps 106 DMPD & SSAD Proposed Submission Statement of Consultation 1 Introduction 1.1 The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 introduced a new system of development plans, requiring the Council’s Unitary Development Plan (2003) to be replaced by a series of documents within the new Local Development Framework (LDF). The first stage is the production of the Core Strategy which sets out the Council's spatial vision, strategic objectives and spatial strategy on how the borough should develop over the next fifteen years along with core policies and information on monitoring and implementation.
    [Show full text]
  • Bus Map Local Area
    Vauxhall Station – Zone 1/2 i Onward Travel Information Local area map Bus map 49 1 to 121 Park Plaza SALAMANCA ST Millbank 13 to 40 Camden Town Liverpool Street Riverbank 1 36 88 344 Primary School 21 Appold Street GIBSON ROAD H E R RSTREET I C K Queen’s Park Mornington Crescent S D A Playground T O E Millbank R Tate Britain E Warren Street CAMDEN TOWN Liverpool Street L Maida Hill Statue L R B Gardens T L E A A Bishopsgate S C The Chippenham D Pedlar’s Park K Great Portland Street Aldwych N S P CITY R A RANDALL ROW I Bishopsgate ERASMUS STREET ATTERBURY STREET R N R C E E Y R O Oxford Circus Strand Threadneedle Street T A Harrow Road 87 M 21 D Westminster Southampton Street 39 Monument CURETON STREET Registration Office 2 Marylebone Regent Street for Covent Garden and Conduit Street London Transport Museum A MARYLEE WAY T River Thames E University E Royal Oak Piccadilly Circus R of the Arts T 77 77 VAUXHALL WALK S Southwark Street Gloucester Place Dorset Square Regent Street London Bridge (Chelsea College H L Waterloo Concert Hall Approach L Southwark Bridge Road 2 for Baker Street St. James’s of Art & Design) A Paddington for IMAX Centre and Southbank Centre P O N S O N B Y J O N H A X 79 T H A Trafalgar Square N U PLACE T S T S A 60 County Hall R A N JOHN ISLIP STREET Albert E E T C R for Charing Cross Southwark Bridge Road V O F T T for London Aquarium and London Eye Vauxhall S T E Great Suffolk Street 11 Embankment R E 35 J E Portman Street ELEPHANT Methodist O E T 4 R St.
    [Show full text]
  • Waterford Point
    WATERFORD POINT TAKE YOUR PLACE IN LONDON’S MOST EXCITING NEW DISTRICT WELCOME TO A NEW GLOBAL CITY 2 \\ London’s new go-to destination Nine Elms is known as the And it’s here that Barratt most exciting regeneration London is bringing project to take place in the together some of the finest recent history of the capital. contemporary urban This brand new destination architecture to create Nine will create 20,000 new Elms Point. This collection homes, 25,000 jobs, of 647 contemporary fantastic office and studios, apartments and commercial space, penthouses is set across including the US Embassy, seven buildings and built as well as leisure facilities, around more than an acre parks and squares. of private landscaped gardens. Add to that, two brand new Underground stations, a With an exceptional central proposed new bridge London location, Nine Elms across the Thames to Point enjoys fantastic Zone Pimlico, an array of shops, 1 transport connections, as restaurants, bars and cafés well as an array of resident and it’s easy to see how facilities built with 21st Nine Elms is fast becoming century living in mind. an incredibly captivating area. All just moments from the heart of London. NINE ELMS \\ BARRATT LONDON \\ NINE ELMS POINT SW8 \\ 4 \\ WELCOME TO YOUR PIECE OF LONDON \\ BARRATT LONDON \\ NINE ELMS POINT SW8 \\ 6 \\ A transformation story Nine Elms is one of Stretching the entire length the largest regeneration of Nine Elms will be a schemes in Europe and one linear park, connecting of the last areas of central riverside walkways and London to be redeveloped.
    [Show full text]
  • Brightside November 2017
    The magazine of Wandsworth Council Issue 182 November 2017 WIN an MBNA Thames Clippers Family Roamer Ticket See page 23 Keeping our streets clean Northern Line Extension comes closer New cultural hub for Wandsworth Town A brighter borough for all Delivered to 140,000 homes - Balham Battersea Earlsfield Furzedown Putney Roehampton Southfields Tooting Wandsworth Can you give a child a new start with adoption? Adoption Information Event Tuesday 5 December 6.30pm - 8.30pm Call us now on (020) 8871 7184 To find out more: (020) 8871 7184 a new wandsworth.gov.uk/adoption start [email protected] AD.1198 T&L A (10.17) 2 Brightside Leader of the council Ravi Govindia (right) visited the tunnelling site in August. Northern Line tunnelling complete Work on drilling the tunnels for the Northern Line Station on Battersea Park Road next to the Power Station extension has finished. development. These will serve new developments such as After months of drilling using giant boring machines, the the US Embassy, the Power Station and the redevelopment tunnelling work is complete as a new tube link for Nine of New Covent Garden Market, as well as existing Elms and Battersea comes a step closer. communities. Passengers should be able to ride the Northern Line to Battersea in 2020. Work started in April on drilling the lines, which have linked up with the existing Northern Line tunnels at Kennington. The Northern Line Extension helped to kick start the As the machines progressed along the route, precast regeneration of Nine Elms and Vauxhall which is on course concrete segments that line the tunnel were put in place.
    [Show full text]
  • Wandsworth Local Plan
    Wandsworth Local Plan Site Specific Allocations Document Adopted March 2016 Local Plan - Site Specific Allocations Document (Adopted March 2016) Site Specific Allocations Document - Review 1 Introduction 6 1.1 Site locations 8 1.2 Policies Map site references 9 1.3 Spatial Strategy Areas 11 2 Nine Elms 12 2.1 Area Spatial Strategy for Nine Elms 12 2.1.1 Battersea Power Station and Goods Yard, Kirtling Street, SW8 27 2.1.2 Depot, Kirtling Street SW8 30 2.1.3 Former Petrol Filling Station, 2 Battersea Park Road, SW8 31 2.1.4 Battersea Gasholders, Prince of Wales Drive, SW8 32 2.1.5 Marco Polo House, 346 Queenstown Road, SW8 34 2.1.6 Cringle Dock, Nine Elms, SW8 36 2.1.7 Kirtling Wharf, Nine Elms, SW8 37 2.1.8 Warehouse, 88 Kirtling Street, SW8 38 2.1.9 Tideway Industrial Estate, Kirtling Street, SW8 39 2.1.10 Middle Wharf, Nine Elms, SW8 41 2.1.11 Cable and Wireless, Ballymore Site 6, Unit 2a, Battersea Park Road, SW8 42 2.1.12 Market Towers, Nine Elms, SW8 44 2.1.13 Booker Cash and Carry, 41-49 Nine Elms Lane, SW8 46 2.1.14 Sleaford Street, SW8 48 2.1.15 US Embassy, SW8 50 2.1.16 Main Site, Ballymore, Ponton Road, SW8 52 2.1.17 Securicor Site, 80 Kirtling Street, SW8 54 2.1.18 Royal Mail Group Site, Ponton Road, SW8 55 2.1.19 Christies Auctioneers Depot, Ponton Road, SW8 57 2.1.20 Government Car and Dispatch Agency, Ponton Road, SW8 59 2.1.21 Metropolitan Police Warehouse Garage, Ponton Road, SW8 60 2.1.22 Heathwall Pumping Station, 54-56 Nine Elms Lane, SW8 61 2.1.23 Brooks Court, Kirtling Street, SW8 62 Local Plan - Site Specific Allocations
    [Show full text]