NOTTINGHAM Regeneration Limited (NRL), the company tasked with helping drive forward the city’s ambitious future regeneration plans, has appointed Marc Cole as its new chief executive.

Marc, 43, takes up the position after three years as director of regeneration with Bradford Centre Regeneration.

With NRL, Marc is responsible for overseeing the company’s £2.5 billion regeneration programme for the Eastside, Southside and Waterside areas of Nottingham city centre.

Together these zones cover an area equivalent to 300 football pitches, making up one of the largest regeneration areas in the UK.

The company also works with public and private sector partners across the wider Greater Nottingham conurbation to facilitate and assist the delivery of a range of regeneration, renewal and revitalisation projects.

Marc takes over from Alan Swales who led NRL since its creation in 1998.

Marc said: “My appointment as chief executive of Nottingham Regeneration Limited demonstrates the long term commitment of the company to help create a physical environment in which the citizens of Greater Nottingham can take pride, and which improves their lives at home, at work and at play.

“It also provides me with the opportunity to share my experience and knowledge of working on major regeneration projects across the UK.”

Marc’s career in regeneration spans two decades, specialising in planning, economic development and physical renewal.

Before joining NRL, he was director of regeneration with Bradford Centre Regeneration for three years.  

He has also held a number of other senior regeneration posts including head of regeneration with St Helens Council, deputy chief executive with the Coalfields Regeneration Trust – a national grant making charity established by the Government to assist the social and economic regeneration of the former mining areas across the UK – and senor consultant with DTZ Pieda Consulting.

His track record includes working on the regeneration of Manchester city centre, the production of an economic strategy for Merseyside, the distribution of more than £40 million grant funding to deprived former mining communities, the creation of Duke Street Cultural Quarter in St Helens, Merseyside and taking forward the redevelopment of the Broadway Shopping Centre in Bradford city centre.