At 31 March 2008, the Group’s holdings in Covent Garden comprised 104 shops, 58 restaurants, bars and clubs, 98,000 sq.ft. of offices and 119 apartments. These holdings were valued at £367.3 million and represented 28% by value of the Company’s portfolio.

 

Seven Dials comprises a seventeenth century network of streets, courtyards and warehouse buildings radiating from the central sundial monument just off Neal Street in Covent Garden. It is characterised by an eclectic mix of shops, restaurants, bars, theatres and hotels and also houses the largest residential community of all our villages. Each street within Seven Dials has its own unique atmosphere with its mix of high end fashion boutiques and quirky independant stores. Neal’s Yard is renowned as the birthplace of alternative therapies and treatments in the UK and to this day comprises a colourful collection of buildings which act as a focus for alternative medicine, organic treatments, pilates, yoga and vegetarian restaurants.

 

Opera Quarter comprises four interconnecting streets adjacent to Covent Garden Market and Piazza and in the heart of Theatreland, with seven major theatres containing 9,500 seats in the immediate vicinity and 5 major hotels close by. This is Covent Garden’s food quarter. Virtually all ground floor frontages are either restaurants or specialist food related operators and delis.