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The South East England Development Ageny (SEEDA) is the leading public sector body for the delivery of regeneration and physical development in the region in order to create sustainable communities. The Agency works closely with the Government, local authority partners and the private sector to deliver national and regional priorities.
The Agency's extensive land and property function is focused on bringing brownfield sites and premises back into productive use. The main areas for attention are the priority regeneration areas of Southern Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Thames Gateway, Ashford and Milton Keynes growth areas, the Kent and Sussex coasts and the former East Kent coalfields.
These areas contain a significant number of sites with potential for development. SEEDA, through strategic interventions, is managing the remediation of land with complex physical regeneration issues to enable the private sector to realise this potential.
The development projects that the Development and Infrastructure Division undertakes seek to provide a practical demonstration of good practice in design quality and sustainability. By using mechanisms such as masterplans, development frameworks and design codes, the Agency seeks to shape development in the region and influence change towards more environmentally sustainable developments.
The division is also responsible for urban renaissance and design programmes and contributes to the new regional housing board, planning and transport.
Since its creation, SEEDA, working with partners, has brought more than 235 hectares of brownfield land back into productive use, created more than 3,500 jobs and built more than 38,000 sq m of new business floorspace and refurbished a further 43,000 sq m.
In 2004 SEEDA invested more than £40 million in the South East through its direct development programme, to acquire and remediate sites and to take forward their development.
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