The socio-economic impact of businesses in the railway arches
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Figure 2.2 displays the geographical composition of the portfolio in greater detail, mapping its properties across England and Wales. The composition of the portfolio can be seen to broadly reflect the composition of the railway network, with large clusters in London and the industrial cities of the North West, and more numerous but smaller clusters in the less industrialised South East.
Figure 2.2 – The composition of the portfolio reflects that of the railway network
Location of properties in portfolio. Bubble size represents the number of properties in a given postcode.
London
Manchester
Number of properties
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Source: The Arch Company internal data, 2023, MapTiler, 2024
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The Arch Company portfolio comprises 24.8m square feet (sqft). This includes 10.0m sqft of internal floorspace and 14.8m sqft of land and estate areas.
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The dominant type of spaces in The Arch Company portfolio are industrial spaces. Parts of the report use a comparison of Arch Company industrial space with general industrial space as the appropriate comparison example, rather than other use types. Throughout this report, industrial spaces are defined as including areas for light industry such as workshops, vehicle servicing and food manufacturing, as well as logistics and storage spaces such as ‘final mile’ distribution areas .
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