British Land : Launches New Street Food Concept at Four Shopping Parks

British Land has launched Eats from the Street, a 'celebration of street food' that brings the best in British street food to four of our shopping parks. The new concept will run every weekend for the rest of the year.

The street food celebrations kicked off at Glasgow Fort Shopping Park and will also visit Fort Kinnaird Shopping Park in Edinburgh, Broughton Shopping Park in Chester and Teesside Shopping Park in Stockton-on-Tees. A restored red route master bus will accompany the street food traders, and provides an unusual indoor setting for diners.

The new concept brings a fresh culinary experience to the park's customers and forms part of British Land's strategy to enhance the food and beverage provision across its portfolio.

British Land is pleased to team up with Richard Johnson, who set up British Street Food and the British Street Foods Awards, to champion the best of the young chefs now cooking on the streets.  Street food is an important trend in Britain and some of the most successful new restaurant openings over the last two years have started on the streets including Meat Liquor, Pizza Pilgrims, Patty and Bun and Pitt Cue.

Charles Maudsley, Head of Retail for British Land, said: "Eats from the Street is a great initiative that enhances the consumer experience at our shopping parks and makes good quality food fun and accessible. It is just one of the ways we are ensuring our shopping parks remain Places People Prefer."

Street food operators taking part in Eats from the Street include: British Street Food award winners, Nusou with bowls of noodles and fresh-ribboned vegetables; Scottish Food Award winners Breaking Bread, with a world food menu that includes everything from lamb kofta to falafel; Zoete Koek with Belgian waffles and pancakes; Mighty Mexican with tacos, nachos and burritos and Crema Caravan serving crème brulee.

Notes to Editors

About British Land
We are one of Europe's largest publicly listed real estate companies. We own, manage, develop and finance a portfolio of high quality commercial property, focused on retail locations around the UK and London Offices & Residential. We have total assets in the UK, owned or managed of £17.8 billion (British Land share of which is £12.0 billion), as valued at 31 March 2014. Our properties are home to over 1,000 different organisations and receive over 300 million visits each year. Our objective is to deliver long-term and sustainable total returns to our shareholders and we do this by focusing on Places People Prefer. People have a choice where they work, shop and live and we aim to create outstanding places which make a positive difference to people's everyday lives. Our customer orientation enables us to develop a deep understanding of the people who use our places. We employ a lean team of experts, who have the skills to translate this understanding into creating the right places, and we have an efficient capital structure which is able to effectively finance these places.

UK Retail assets account for 53% of our portfolio. As the UK's largest listed owner and manager of retail space, our portfolio is well matched to the different ways people shop today, from major regional shopping centres to single occupier locations. We are focused on being the destination of choice for retailers and their customers by being the best provider of spaces and services. Comprising around 25 million sq ft of retail space across 66 retail parks, 85 superstores, 15 shopping centres, 12 department stores and 77 leisure assets, the retail portfolio is modern, flexible and adaptable to a wide range of formats.

Our Office and Residential portfolio, which accounts for 47% of our portfolio is focused on London, We have an attractive mix of high‑quality buildings in well‑managed environments and a pipeline of development projects which will add significantly to our portfolio. Increasingly, our offices are in mixed-use environments which include retail and residential elements. Our 7.3 million sq ft of high quality office space includes Regent's Place and Paddington Central in the West End and Broadgate, the premier City office campus (50% share).

Our size and substance demands a responsible approach to business. We believe leadership on issues such as sustainability helps drive our performance and is core to the delivery of our overall objective of driving shareholder value and creating Places People Prefer.

Further details can be found on the British Land website at www.britishland.com.