St Modwen at a Glance

St. Modwen is a regeneration specialist operating through a network of regional offices in all sectors of the property industry.  These regional offices enable the company to understand local needs and to exercise on the spot control. We work in partnership with private and public sector organisations, continually mindful of the impact of our developments on the communities in which we operate.

The company’s operational strategy is based on a “hopper” of future developable land, and on marshalling that land through the planning and development process into a reliable stream of profits. The company focuses on four particular areas of specialisation: Town centre regeneration, Partnering industry in its restructuring, Brownfield land renewal and Heritage restoration.

The new entrance to the Edmonton Green shopping centre

Town Centre Regeneration

Many centres that were developed during the 1960s and 1970s now require substantial refurbishment and updating to meet the demands of the contemporary shopper, to accommodate new trends in town centre living, and to bring back into these centres community and business uses. 

St Modwen has substantial experience in revitalising town centres, and is currently engaged on a number of such schemes, including major projects at Edmonton Green, Farnborough, Skelmersdale and Wembley.

Aerial view of Goodyear, Wolverhampton

Partnering Industry

Restructuring of traditional industries has left numerous former employment complexes potentially available for redevelopment. 

St Modwen has established joint ventures with companies such as Alstom, Corus, Goodyear and Ford to undertake the redevelopment of such sites, often through innovative sale and leaseback arrangements which provide the required flexibility for the landowner.

Avonmouth Demolition

Brownfield Renewal

St. Modwen is the UK’s leading expert in the large-scale renewal of brownfield land. The company has huge experience in the remediation, remodeling, infrastructuring and redevelopment of such sites, having reclaimed hundreds of acres of brownfield land for both residential and commercial use.

There is currently well over 1,000 acres of land in the hopper in the process of such development, including the massive Llanwern (former steelworks) and Avonmouth (former zinc smelter) sites.

Trentham Gardens

Restoring Heritage

The company has applied similar skills to a number of heritage, leisure-related projects. In these projects, an enabling commercial development finances an otherwise non-viable heritage restoration scheme.

Two such schemes currently being undertaken are: the £100m transformation of Trentham Gardens at Stoke-on-Trent into a major leisure and commercial visitor attraction; and a similar project at Dudley in the West Midlands, which will incorporate the existing zoo and medieval castle into a new visitor attraction.