LSE PROPERTY HANDBOOK 2019/2020 CONTACTS JULIAN ROBINSON Director of Estates Email: [email protected] RICHARD JENDEN Director of Property and Space Strategy Email: [email protected] CONTENTS Foreword 1 Peacock Theatre 32 Campus Metrics 3 Pethick-Lawrence House 33 Space Norms 5 1 Portsmouth Street 34 LSE Property Ownership Map 7 Queens House 35 LSE ACADEMIC ESTATE Sardinia House 36 95 Aldwych 8 Saw Swee Hock Student Centre 37 Aldwych House 9 Sheffield Street 38 Centre Building 10 St Clement’s 39 Clement House 11 RESIDENCES Columbia House 12 Map of LSE Residences 40 Connaught House 13 Bankside House 41 Cowdray House 14 Berrylands Sports Ground 42 Fawcett House 15 Butler's Wharf 43 King’s Chambers 16 Carr Saunders Hall 44 1 Kingsway 17 Clink Street 45 20 Kingsway 18 George IV Pub 46 The Lakatos Building 19 Grosvenor House 47 Lincoln Chambers 20 High Holborn 48 5 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 21 Urbanest King’s Cross 49 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 22 Lilian Knowles House 50 35 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 23 Northumberland House 51 50 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 24 Passfield Hall 52 Lionel Robbins Building 25 Rosebery Hall 53 The Marshall Building 26 Sidney Webb House 54 New Academic Building 27 Urbanest Westminster Bridge 55 Old Building 28 Ye Old White Horse 56 Old Curiosity Shop 29 Pankhurst House 30 Glossary 57 Parish Hall 31 Centre Building Fact Sheet 58 FOREWORD Dear Colleagues, This year the LSE Property Guide celebrates its 10th Birthday! Produced annually by the Estates Property & Space Management team, this is designed to keep senior leaders across the School appraised on the current state of the estate. During 2018/19 things were relatively quiet on the property front. The couple of transactions that do stand out were the loss of Evans Cycles (went into administration) at High Holborn, a considerable amount of work on the Residences estate, the opening of the Shaw Café (our vegan café on Kingsway) and the lease end of the NatWest bank which provides the School with an opportunity to enhance the campus entrance. However, on the capital development and space management front, 2019 has seen the completion of the School’s largest ever development; the £125m Centre Building. This has positively impacted on our metrics for property condition, freehold ownership and percentage of student, teaching and academic space (see page 3). This building completion has in itself generated a whole series of decants, moves and refurbishments across the estate, commonly known as Phase 1 of the School’s Accommodation Plan. The following Departments and functions have moved into the newly completed building: Departments of Government, International Relations, European Institute, School of Public Policy, Directorate and the International Inequalities Institute. The building factsheet can be found on page 58. Apart from providing more space and modern state of the art facilities, the main impact of the Centre Building will be the significant increase in provision of student social learning space and improved communication and connectivity across campus, with the long awaited re-opening of Houghton Street and new Public Square taking centre stage. The Centre Building firmly delivers on the main two tenets of our Estates Strategy: creating a world class estate commensurate with our academic reputation and creating a ‘university quarter’ in this part of the City. In terms of staffing, we have recently lost Matt Boyd to the commercial sector and we are in the process of recruiting a replacement. Matt is another Estates Division success story having joined us as a property intern after graduating from the LSE in 2014. We sent him on a post graduate course in real estate surveying and he then subsequently qualified as a chartered surveyor. In the intervening five years we have benefitted from an excellent member of staff who has undoubtedly contributed to the success and high standing of the Property & Space Management team. 1 The total floor area of the School’s Aldwych estate now stands at 132,500 m2 with the addition of the Centre Building, but excludes the Marshall Building (under construction) and 35 Lincoln’s inn Fields (currently leased to the Royal College of Surgeons). Having achieved the re-brigading of Departments into the Centre Building, the team has worked to backfill the decanted space in accordance with Phase One of the Accommodation Plan; Phase Two now follows with many feasibility studies and much planning underway. The Plan supports LSE 2030 Priorities through seeking to deliver world-class digital and physical facilities, investing in the teaching, learning and social spaces and creating an outstanding executive education and conference environment. The local property market has continued to be buoyant with only a small amount of space coming to the market; whilst this creates issues when seeking additional accommodation, it also has the positive impact of a firm asset value for our estate which is now estimated at £1.4billion. With office rates in Midtown now at £85 psf, this gives further impetus to our strategy of moving out of leasehold accommodation and into our freehold estate, saving significant recurrent costs along the way.. This handbook is distributed to members of the School Management Committee (SMC), Finance and Estates Committee and LSE Council and Heads of Department. A digital version can be downloaded from the Estates Division’s website: lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/estates-division/lse-estate/lse-estate My thanks as always go to Richard Jenden and his team for their stewardship of the School’s property and for planning and managing the School’s space, which given its relatively scarcity is a commodity where often demand outstrips supply! I do hope you find this handbook interesting and informative and would welcome your feedback on the contents and suggestions for future editions. With best wishes for a successful 2019/20 Academic Year. Julian S Robinson Director of Estates 2 CAMPUS METRICS CAMPUS SIZE (GIA) Square metres 160,000 140,000 120,000 100,000 2004/05 2010/11 2013/14 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2017/18 and 2018/19 do not include 35 Lincoln's Inn Fields or the demolished 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields CAMPUS EMR CONDITION GRADE 24% 23% 21% Condition C 38% 57% 76% 77% 79% Condition A and B 62% 43% 2004/05 2010/11 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 3 CAMPUS METRICS OWNERSHIP TYPE Leasehold Leasehold 6% 13% 2003 87% Freehold 2019 94% Freehold Does not include 35 Lincoln's Inn Fields or the demolished 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields CAMPUS OCCUPANCY Teaching and Study 17% Academic Departments 26% Library 16% Affiliate 1% Research Centres 7% Tenants 1% Students’ Union 3% Interdisciplinary Institutes 2% Support Divisions 27% 4 SPACE NORMS Accommodation Office Space Notes type type target ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS Professor n 12 sq.m Associate Professor n 12 sq.m n Assistant Professor 12 sq.m Single office only for academics of equal or Other Academic Staff – Education greater than 0.5 FTE; If less than 0.5 FTE n 12 sq.m Track/Practice Track (part time), access to a shared office Course Tutor n 12 sq.m Course Convenor n 12 sq.m LSE Fellow l 5 sq.m Shared office Emeritus Professor l 5 sq.m Visitors to have access to hot desks – 1 desk Visiting Professor l 5 sq.m per FTE. Shared office only if externally funded or making a substantial teaching contribution. l Visiting Lecturer 5 sq.m Target of providing 1 supernumerary cellular office per Department.for Senior Visitors. Visiting Fellow l 5 sq.m Departmental Researcher l 5 sq.m As per Research Centre space norms Departmental Occasional Researcher No provision Guest Teacher l 5 sq.m Hot desking – 1 desk provided per FTE; ratio to be considered by P&SM in exceptional circumstances Graduate Teaching Assistant No Access to 121 meeting room. For study, see (PhD student) provision PhD study space provision Departmental Manager n 8 sq.m Space norm of 7–9 sq.m Departmental Professional Services Staff l 5 sq.m RESEARCH CENTRES Research Centre Director n 12 sq.m No more than 1 office, unless Head of Academic Department as well as Research Centre Director, in which case one will be shared Professorial Research Fellow n 12 sq.m Assistant Professorial Research Fellow l 5 sq.m Shared office Associate Professorial Research Fellow l 5 sq.m Shared office n Single cellular office (a process will be established to consider exceptions that may merit cellular offices.) l Shared cellular office/open plan 5 Accommodation type Office type Space target Notes RESEARCH CENTRES (continued) Senior Research Fellow l 5 sq.m Research Fellow l 5 sq.m Hot desking (as they do not have to see students) – 1 desk per FTE Research Assistant l 5 sq.m A 121 meeting room should be available Research Officer l 5 sq.m for private discussions Research Centres Occasional Researcher l 5 sq.m Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Fellow l 5 sq.m 1 supernumerary office for Senior Visitors per unit, subject to size Centre Manager l 5 sq.m Managers will not be in a single office Research Centre Professional Services Staff l 5 sq.m CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION Divisional Director n 12 sq.m Central Professional Services Staff l 5 sq.m ACADEMIC UNITS (OTHER FACILITIES) Departmental Meeting rooms 1 per Department Departmental Teaching rooms No provision Undergraduate Common room 1 per Department – size based on number of FTEs Undergraduate Study space No provision Postgraduate Common room 1 per Department – size based on number of FTEs Postgraduate Study space No provision Staff / PhD Common room 1 per Department for Staff and PhD students PhD Study space 1 desk per student @2.5-4.5 sq.m.