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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

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Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the properties occupied by (a) her Department and (b) its agencies in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2004; and what the (A) area and (B) annual rental value (1) in aggregate and (2) in each case was in each year. [196070] Alun Michael: Defra was not created until 2001. A list of properties for 2004, as requested is tabled as follows. Occupied core Defra and Defra agencies sites (including mixed)--showing area and rent _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Address l Address 2 Address 3 Town County Postcode Fish Lab Stores Units 7-12 Pinbush Drive Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 7NL Vic Kendal Road Harlescott Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 4HD Vic The Elms College Road Sutton Bonnington Loughborough Notts LE12 5RB The Nothe Barrack Road Weymouth Dorset DT4 8UB Vic Langford House Langford Road Langford Bristol BS40 5HY Badger Research Unit 1 Easter Park Nympsfield Gloucestershire GL10 3UJ Cottage Staplake Mount Starcross Exeter Devon EX6 8PE Fish Laboratories Remembrance Avenue Burnham-On-Crouch Essex CMO 8HA Fisheries Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT North Quay Lowestoft Docks Commercial Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 2TD Fish Quay Portakabin Fish Quay Battery Green Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 1DD Victhirsk West House Station Road Thirsk N Yorks YO7 1PZ Radiobiological Lab The Harbour West Pier Whitehaven Cumbria CA28 7LY VLA Merrythought Penrith Calthwaite Cumbria CA11 9RR 46 Fore Street Newlyn Penzance Cornwall TR18 5JR Vic Longbenton Whitley Road Longbenton Newcastle Tyne and Wear NE12 9SE Vic Rougham Hill Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 2RX Central Science Lab Sand Hutton York N Yorks YO41 1LZ Elvet House Halgarth Street Durham Durham DH1 3AT The Elms (Cat III Unit) College Road Loughborough Notts LE12 5RB Manor Farm Cottages Luddington Vic Stratford Upon Avon Warwick CV37 9SJ Chorley West Business 1 Unit 6 Ackhurst Road Chorley Lancs PR7 1NL Vic Jobs Well Lane Carmarthen Carmarthen Vic Buarth Rd Aberystwyth Cereidgion SY23 1ND Chapel Bank Works Curwen Road Workington Cumbria CA14 Coniston Buildings 55 Adams Road Workington Cumbria CA14 3YS Sea Life Centre Lodmoor Country Weymouth Dorset DT4 7SX Park Unit 7 West Cumbria Workington Cumbria Business Pk Thistledown Farm Nympsfield Road Nympsfield Gloucester Gloucestershire GL10 3UL Westmoreland Lane Farm Crooklands Milnthorpe Cumbria LA7 7NH Springfield Nursery Unit 10 Site 13 Springfield Ind Est Burnham On Crouch Essex CMO 8TE Kings House 33 Kings Road Reading Berkshire RG1 3AR 40 Caversham Road Reading Berkshire RG1 7BJ North Gate House 21-23 Valpy Street Reading Berkshire RG1 1RN Lancaster House Hampshire Court Newcastle-upon-Tyne Tyne and Wear NE4 7YE Paddock Road Unit 4D Industrial Estate Reading Berkshire RG4 0BY St John's House St. John's Square Wolverhampton W Midlands WV2 4AX Suite 11 Derwentside 25 Town Street Duffield Derby DE56 4EH 62a The Strand Newlyn Cornwall TR18 5HW Stockbridge Tech Centre Cawood N Yorks YO8 0NU 2a Market Street Carlisle Cumbria CA3 8QJ Hyperion House First Floor Unit 2 The Oaks Newmarket Suffolk CB8 7LG 15 West Pier Scarborough N Yorks YO11 1PD 24 West Pier Scarborough N Yorks YO11 1PD 132 Warkworth Woods Gosforth Newcastle Tyne And Wea NE3 5RD Polwhele Workshop Truro Cornwall TR4 9AD North Pier The Harbour Newlyn Cornwall TR18 5JR Unit161/4b Willowtree Ind Est Alnwick Northumberland NE66 2PF Mac Stoneleigh Stoneleigh Kenilworth Warwick CV8 2LZ New Fish Quay The Quay Brixham Devon TQ5 8AW The Custom House 3rd Floor (Rooms 1 Old Market Place Whitby N Yorks YO21 3BT 10-13) Harbour Commis Office Warkworth Harbour Quayside Amble Northumberland NE65 0AP Government Buildings Cop Lane Penwortham Preston Lancs PR1 0SZ Woodthorne Wergs Road Wolverhampton W Midlands WV6 8TQ Princess House Queen Street 2nd Floor Barnstaple Devon EX32 8HJ Block A Reading Rsc Government Coley Park Reading Berkshire RG1 6OS Buildings 100 Southgate Street Government Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 2AF Buildings Chequers Court St Germaine Street Huntingdon Cambridge PE18 6LT Vancouver House County Court Road Kings Lynn Norfolk PE30 5EJ Middlecott House 22-24 Willington Kirton Boston Lincolnshire PE20 1EH Road Wrest Park Mech and Farm Waste Silsoe Bedfordshire MK45 4DP Unit Windsor House Cornwall Road Harrogate N Yorks HG1 2PW Government Buildgs Lee Otley Road Lawnswood Leeds W Yorks LS16 5PY 10 Whitehall Place Wpe (East Block) Westminster London Hq SW1A 2HD Eastbury House 30/34 Albert Lambeth London Hq SE1 7TL Embankment Nobel House 17 Smith Square Westminster London Hq SW1P 3HX Ergon House 17 Smith Square Westminster London Hq SW1P 3JR Smithfield Market Units D1 and D2 Openshaw Manchester Gt Manchester M11 2JW Stanley Market Edge Lane Liverpool Merseyside L13 2EB 26 London Street Bradley Chambers Fleetwood Lancs FY7 6JG Wyre Dock Portakabin Fleetwood Lancs FY7 6NN Svs Poole Inspectors Office Ferry Terminal Poole Dorset Svs Wildlife Unit Aston Down Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 8HT Bristol Fruit Centre Admin Block Albert Crescent St Phillips Marsh Bristol BS2 0YQ Allen House 14/19 Allen House 23 Sherrin Rd Leyton London Hq E10 5SQ Western Intntnal Mrkt Unit 1C Mkt Centre Hayes Road Southall Gtr London UB2 5XJ Building 333 Timberham House (Rm Gatwick Airport Crawley West Sussex RH6 ONN 121) Merevale House 42-46 London Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1DN Baltic Chambers 2 Waveney Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 1BN Whitehouse Lane Huntingdon Road Cambridge Cambridge CB3 0LF The Portakabin St. James Market Essex Street Bradford W Yorks BD4 7PG 103 Northgate The Headland Hartlepool N Yorkshire TS24 0JX 19/20/28 West Pier Scarborough N Yorks YO11 1PD NE WH Fruit Veg Market Admin Block Team Valley Trad Gateshead Tyne & Wear NE11 0RG Est Tamar Business Park Pennygillam Ind Unit 3&4 Launceston Cornwall PL157NX Estate 19-29 Woburn Place 3 & 4th Floors Bloomsbury London Hq WC1H 0LU Building 104 Second Floor Port of Sheerness Sheerness Kent ME12 1RS Room 11 Building 305 Cargo Centre Manchester Manchester M90 SPY 3rd Floor, Trinity Court Trinity Court 37 Southernhay East Exeter Devon EX1 Fish Market Rock A Nore Road Hastings East Sussex TN34 SOW Units Thornfield Business Standard Way Ind Northallerton N Yorks DL6 2XQ Park Estate Eastern Docks Freight Services Dover Kent CT16 1JA Bldg Kings Pool Foss House 1-2 Peasholme Green York N Yorks Y01 7PX Lumford Mill Riverside Walk Bakewell Derby DE45 1DA Sutton Harbour Fisheries Office Fish Quay Plymouth Devon PL4 0LH Piplers Building Fisheries Office The Quay Poole Dorset BH15 1HP Neville House Liddell Street North Shields Tyne and Wear NE30 1HN St Clare House Princes Street Greyfriars Ipswich Suffolk IP1 1LW Hadrian House 6 Wavell Drive Rosehill Business Carlisle Cumbria CA1 2ST Park Copthall House Station Square Coventry W Midlands CV1 2FA Office Suite 3 St Andrews House Opposite 22 Berth Tilbury Essex RM18 7HX Liberty House 105 Bell Street Reigate Surrey RH2 TAN Llanishen Govt. Buildings Tyglas Cardiff Cardiff CF14 5ZB Cathays Park Crown Buildings Cardiff Cardiff CF1 3NQ Caernarfon Crown Buildings North Penrallt Caernarfon Gwynedd LL55 1EP Picton Terrace Crown Buildings Carmarthen Carmarthenshire SA31 3BT Llandrindod Crown Buildings Spa Road East Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 5HA Macon Court 1 Macon Court Macon Way Crewe Cheshire CW1 6DG Continental Ferry Port Porta Cabin George Byng Way Portsmouth Hampshire P02 8SP Tileworks Office Block Suite B Whitestone Business Withington Herefordshire HR1 3RY Estuary House Wharncliffe Road Grimsby Lincolnshire DN31 3QL 1a Page Street Westminister London Hq SW1P 4PQ Building 46 Channel Tunnel Coquelles Coquelles France Terminal King George Dock Albert Dock Hull Yorks E R HU1 2ND Room 516 Trelawny House The Dock Felixstowe Suffolk IP11 8SB 46 Ponton Road Vauxhall Lambeth London Hq SW8 5AX City Business Centre Basin Road Chichester West Sussex PO19 8DU Unit 12 St Georges Business St Georges Square Portsmouth Hampshire PO1 3EZ Cen' Unit 3 The Barn Centre Alexandra Road Aberystwyth Cereidgion SY23 1LF Units 3, 4 and 5 Hanover Court Manaton Close Exeter Devon EX2 8QJ Unit 1 Epps Building Epps Building Bridge Road Ashford Kent TN23 1QA First Floor Unit 2 Manor Grove Peterborough Cambridge PE1 5UH Business Alexandra House Lawnswood Park Leeds W Yorks LS16 6QY Animal Reception The Residence 749 Beacon Road Heathrow London Hq TW6 3JF Part First Floor Richmond House Walkern Road Stevenage Old Town Hertford SG1 3QP Pembroke Ferry Terming Portacabin The Dockyard Pembroke Pembrokeshire SA73 3AN The Palace Building Second Floor The Palace Building Truro Cornwall TR1 2HE Unit 2 Thornfield Bus Pk Standard Way Ind Northallerton N Yorks DL6 2XQ Estate Riverside Chambers Castle Street Taunton Somerset TA1 4AP Hamilton House Parkeston Quay Rooms G8 & G9 Harwich Essex C012 4QA The Seaways Commercial Road Penryn Cornwall TR10 8AQ Millbay Docks Portacabin Plymouth Devon PL1 3EF Town Quay Unit 6 Town Quay Medina Chambers Southampton Hampshire SO14 2AQ Cromwell House Dean Stanley Street Westminster London Hq SW1P 3JG Jordan House East Hall Court Hall Park Way Telford Shropshire TF3 4NF Estuary House Peninsula Park Rydon Lane Exeter Devon EX2 7XB Barnwood Park Unit 1 Saw Mills End Barnwood Gloucestershire GL4 3DE 9 Millbank Westminster London Hq SW1P 3JA Beacon House Unit G University Plots D & E Stafford Staffordshire ST18 0GU Court 3 Lower House Farm Bar Long Lane Throckmorton Worcs. WR10 2JX Fish Hall Office 8 and 9 North Harbour Whitehaven Cumbria CA28 7XY Temple Quay House 2 The Square Temple Quay Bristol Bristol BS1 6EB Ashdown House 123 Victoria Street Victoria London Hq SW1E 6DE Quadrant House Newburn Riverside Newcastle Tyne and Wear NE15 8NZ Quadrant House Newburn Riverside Newcastle Tyne and Wear NE15 8NZ Crimscott Street Unit 2 Rich Ind. Crimscott Street Southwark London Hq SE1 5TE Est. Pilots Watch House Basin Road South Portslade East Sussex BN41 1WD Heysham Sea Link Sea Terminal Morecombe Lancs LA3 2XF Eastbrook Shaftesbury Road Cambridge Cambridge CB2 2DU 4-5 Waterloo Crescent First Floor Offices Dover Kent CT16 1LA Western Intntnal Mrkt Unit 9a Mrkt Centre Hayes Road Uxbridge Gtr London UB2 5XJ Unit B2 The Waterfront Newburn Riverside Newcastle Tyne and Wear NE15 8NZ AONB The Old Post Office Shrewsbury Road Craven Arms Shropshire LA7 7NH 40/41 The Fish Quay Unit 2 North Shields Tyne and Wear NE30 1JA Vic Barton Hall Barton Hall Garstang Road Preston Lancs PR3 SHE Vic Truro Truro Road Polwhele Truro Cornwall TR4 9AD Cvl Woodham Lane Woodham Lane New Haw Addlestone Surrey KT15 3NB Blocks 6 and 7 Government Chalfont Drive Nottingham Notts NG8 3SN Buildings Whitehall Monkmoor Road Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 5AJ Government Buildings Whittington Road Worcester Worcestershire WR5 2LQ Government Buildings Burghill Road Westbury On Trym Bristol BS10 6NJ Prince of Wales Road Dorchester Dorset DT1 1PY Quantock House Paul Street Taunton Somerset TA1 3PF Pydar House Pydar Street Truro Cornwall TR1 2XD Medwyn House Mountfield Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 2XP Cromwell House 15 Andover Road Winchester Hampshire SO23 7EN Beeches Road Government Chelmsford Essex CM1 2RU Buildings Ceres House 2 Searby Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4DW 122A Thorpe Road Norwich Norfolk NR1 1RT Lion House Willowburn Trading Alnwick Northumberland NE6 62PF Esta Crosskill House Mill Lane Beverley E R of York HU17 9JB Edenbridge House Lowther Street Carlisle Cumbria CA3 8DX Alverton Court Crosby Road Northallerton N Yorks DL6 1AD Agricola House Gilwilly Trading Penrith Cumbria CA11 9BU Estate Longacre House Frome Road Trowbridge Wiltshire BA14 0DQ Vic Itchen Abbas Itchen Abbas Winchester Hampshire S021 1BX Olantigh Road Wye Ashford Kent TN25 SEW Government Buildings Beaumont House Cliftonville Northampton NN1 5BE Clyst House Winslade Park Clyst House Exeter Devon EX5 1DY Crewe Business Park Electra Way Crewe Cheshire CW1 6GJ Saffron House Tigers Road Off Saffron Road South Wigston Leicestershire LE18 4UY Albion Place 2nd Floor 6-8 Albion Place Maidstone Kent ME14 5DY Blenheim Office Park Unit 11 Long Hanborough Oxfordshire OX29 8RZ Address l Total area Sq.I Rent (£) Core/ Agency Fish Lab Stores 1,903.5 67,500 A Vic Kendal Road 1,425.8 -- A Vic The Elms 1,632 33,000 A The Nothe 2,609 20 A Vic Langford House 593 4 A Badger Research Unit 14.9 4,000 A Staplake Mount 4,383.4 -- A Fish Laboratories 1,707.2 173 A Fisheries Laboratory 9,556.4 1,450 A North Quay 136.6 9,000 A Fish Quay Portakabin 24.7 1,605 A Victhirsk 857.5 -- A Radiobiological Lab 95.8 540 A VLA Merrythought 742.4 5,730 A 46 Fore Street 71.6 1,702.13 A Vic Longbenton 1,354.6 -- A Vic Rougham Hill 1,535 -- A Central Science Lab 29,100 10 A Elvet House 37.11 1,388.88 A The Elms 236 4,000 A Manor Farm Cottages 1,587 -- A Chorley West Business 1 185.8 18,000 A Vic Jobs Well Lane 865.7 0 A Vic Buarth Rd 618.3 5 A Chapel Bank Works 4,034 -- A Coniston Buildings 267.83 8,652 A Sea Life Centre 580 5,000 A Unit 7 957.8 28,500 A Thistledown Farm 385 10,000 A Westmoreland Lane Farm 22.3 2,600 A Springfield Nursery 130 4,200 A Kings House 6,679.47 1,275,000 A 40 Caversham Road 2,034.6 286,288 A North Gate House 5,959.45 1,397,500 A Lancaster House 5,340.2 663,140 A Paddock Road 876.08 40,000 A St. John's House 272.03 13,400 A Suite 11 -- 3,600 A 62a The Strand -- 5,199.96 A Stockbridge Tech Centre 36 3,950 A 2a Market Street 113.37 5,500 A Hyperion House 450.86 72,795 A 15 West Pier 17.19 1,225 A 24 West Pier 72.89 720 A 132 Warkworth Woods 85 -- A 89,587.38 3,975,397.97 Subtotal Polwhele 256.9 -- C North Pier 5.6 200 C Unit161/4b 130.4 5,700 C Mac Stoneleigh 612 24,100 C New Fish Quay 100.1 6,800 C The Custom House 48.4 1,200 C Harbour Commis Office 31.7 1,900 C Government Buildings 53.6 6,944.81 C Woodthorne 1,112.33 56,379.16 C Princess House 45.1 9,241.34 C Block A Reading Rsc 4,559.1 2,922.36 C 100 Southgate Street 2,678.71 -- C Chequers Court 2,945.7 136,400 C Vancouver House 278.3 15,753.88 C Middlecott House 786.32 12,000 C Wrest Park 15.25 1,845 C Windsor House 234.9 35,500 C Government Buildgs Lee 3,317.33 331,320.12 C 10 Whitehall Place Wpe 7,189.7 2,740 C Eastbury House 3,289 675,000 C Nobel House 13,513 4,548,000 C Ergon House 8,286.63 2,809,762 C Smithfield Market 43.8 2,019.5 C Stanley Market 55.7 550 C 26 London Street 139.2 6,500 C Wyre Dock Portakabin 11.9 1,295 C Svs Poole 18.7 250 C Svs Wildlife Unit 650 -- C Bristol Fruit Centre 16.8 6,000 C Allen House 42 5,874 C Western Intntnal Mrkt 18.7 2,230 C Building 333 27.22 2,208 C Merevale House 209.61 30,505.68 C Baltic Chambers 132.9 8,000 C Whitehouse Lane 766 1 C The Portakabin 7.9 100 C 103 Northgate 36.4 2,800 C 19/20/28 West Pier 72.89 2,730 C NE WH Fruit Veg Market 31.4 2,250 C Tamar Business Park 259 10,480 C 19-29 Woburn Place 2,227.7 841,932.35 C Building 104 40.7 4,349 C Room 11 37.5 2,550 C 3rd Floor, Trinity Court 142.3 18,800 C Fish Market 146 8,125 C Units 170 15,000 C Eastern Docks 28 3,325 C Kings Pool 13,214 728,000 C Lumford Mill 49.5 8,500 C Sutton Harbour 196 18,375 C Piplers Building 155.05 12,950 C Neville House 102.47 13,250 C St. Clare House 93.1 7,862.8 C Hadrian House 792 79,460 C Copthall House 252.66 11,687 C Office Suite 3 30.19 4,250 C Liberty House 971.93 225,000 C Llanishen 607.7 42,021.28 C Cathays Park 129.6 7,416.64 C Caernarfon 291.75 0 C Picton Terrace 362.26 -- C Llandrindod 119.98 28,540.32 C Macon Court 111.88 12,250 C Continental Ferry Port 12.3 -- C Tileworks Office Block 68.97 4,500 C Estuary House 321 7,350 C 1a Page Street 11,183 2,335,020 C Building 46 47.9 -- C King George Dock 12.5 1,712 C Room 516 24.34 2,850 C 46 Ponton Road 1,062 88,125 C City Business Centre 112 11,600 C Unit 12 65 -- C Unit 3 92.05 8,000 C Units 3, 4 and 5 761 34,650 C Unit 1 Epps Building 100.12 7,007 C First Floor 21.24 1,624.12 C Alexandra House 28.98 5,678.63 C Animal Reception 62.71 9,500 C Part First Floor 234.58 27,775 C Pembroke Ferry Terming 11.52 591.1 C The Palace Building 328.69 18,000 C Unit 2 Thornfield Bus Pk 170 15,000 C Riverside Chambers 859.38 53,230 C Hamilton House 41.8 3,600 C The Seaways 130.06 4,750 C Millbay Docks 25 1,000 C Town Quay 87.05 13,500 C Cromwell House 2,472.6 1,020,000 C Jordan House East 267 28,750 C Estuary House 747 84,420 C Barnwood Park 2,011.8 262,000 C 9 Millbank 4,911.51 -- C Beacon House 974.9 130,004 C 3 Lower House Farm Bar 130 -- C Fish Hall 45 3,500 C Temple Quay House 2,211.2 660,618 C Ashdown House 9,776.62 3,736,600 C Quadrant House 2,431 346,536 C Quadrant House 2,431 346,536 C Crimscott Street 1,254 74,250 C Pilots Watch House 41 9,000 C Heysham 18.1 -- C Eastbrook 12,374 -- C 4-5 Waterloo Crescent 143 23,000 C Western Intntnal Mrkt 17 2,985 C Unit B2 The Waterfront 311 16,126.25 C AONB -- -- C 40/41 The Fish Quay 34 1,000 C 130,767.38 20,261,534.3 Subtotal Vic Barton Hall 2,122.16 -- C/A Vic Truro 1,197.43 -- C/A Cvl Woodham Lane 2,8128.1 -- C/A Blocks 6 And 7 4,099.65 137,831 C/A Whitehall 478.6 73,409.47 C/A Government Buildings 9,957.3 1,370.2 C/A Government Buildings 12,367.84 362.5 C/A Prince of Wales Road 1,654.7 25 C/A Quantock House 4,516.98 -- C/A Pydar House 3,561.8 -- C/A Medwyn House 24 4,651.78 C/A Cromwell House 150.9 18,683.8 C/A Beeches Road 881.3 0 C/A Ceres House 2,484.5 4,725 C/A 122athorperoad 2,433.2 315,000 C/A Lion House 1,606.4 -- C/A Crosskill House 2,137.77 -- C/A Edenbridge House 3,354.27 -- C/A Alverton Court 5,050.91 141,161 C/A Agricola House 339.28 1,800 C/A Longacre House 325.11 -- C/A Vic Itchen Abbas 1,676 -- C/A Olantigh Road 555.1 34,500 C/A Government Buildings 222.6 28,540.3 C/A Clyst House 6,366.01 650,000 C/A Crewe Business Park 3,896.6 -- C/A Saffron House 786.82 -- C/A Albion Place 171.6 15,700 C/A Blenheim Office Park 335.37 46,930 C/A 100,882.3 1,474,690.05 Subtotal 3,212,327.06 25,711,622.3 Total 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Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

196070; 426 c2006-13W;426 c2012-9W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Executive agencies Buildings Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Government departments Rents

Contains statistics

Yes

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