London Development Agency

London Development Agency

Successor	GLA Land and Property
Formation	1999
Dissolved	2012
Legal status	Regional development agency
Headquarters	Palestra, Southwark
Region served	Greater London
Leadership	Appointed board
Budget	£410.627 million[1] (2007/08)
Remarks	Appointment: Mayor of London

LDA entrance in Palestra House, designed by Will Alsop and Buro Happold

The London Development Agency (LDA) was from July 2000^[2] until 2012 the regional development agency for the London region in England. A functional body of the Greater London Authority, its purpose was to drive sustainable economic growth within London.

Projects were inherited from English Partnerships or carried out in collaboration with the Greater London Authority and other public sector organisations, including the Department for International Development, the British Council, and London College of Fashion, alongside London boroughs. Members of the Greater London Authority commissioned a 2008 report on these projects, followed by another in 2009.

The agency was closed on 31 March 2012 as a result of the coalition government's spending review.^[3] Some of its functions were assumed by the Greater London Authority itself; these included support for Visit London, Think London and Study London, and the administration of London's European Structural Funds programmes. The GLA was required by the Localism Act 2011 to take over LDA's assets and liabilities, which were placed into the ownership of a new subsidiary corporation – GLA Land and Property.^[4]

The LDA was based at Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, Southwark, south London (across the street from Southwark tube station). The LDA Olympic Land team was based at the London 2012 headquarters in Docklands.

Chief executive

• Michael Ward (2000–2004)^[5]
• Manny Lewis (2004–2008)^[6]
• Peter Rogers (2008–2012)

Board

The board members were appointed by the Mayor of London, and were:

• Chair: Harvey McGrath (London Development Agency)
• Ann Humphries
• Edmund Lazarus
• Fran Beckett
• Ian Barlow
• James Cleverly AM
• Jeremy Mayhew
• Mike Freer
• Megan Dobney
• Peter Truesdale
• Steven Norris
• Susan Angoy
• Anthony Browne

Publications

• Green Enterprise District: East London, July 2010

References

1. London Development Agency – Statement of Accounts 2007–2008 Archived 3 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
2. "The Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2000". www.legislation.gov.uk. 3 July 2000. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
3. "London Development Agency to cut 200 jobs by April". BBC News. 29 October 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
4. "Transition and closure". LDA. 21 June 2011. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012.
5. "London Development Agency chief quits". Community Care. 7 January 2004. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
6. "£210k-a-year City Hall Official in Lee Jasper row is ousted". Evening Standard. Retrieved 14 September 2023.

External links

• Official website archived in May 2007
• Visit London — Visit London
• Study London
• CompeteFor — CompeteFor