Place 100, 2009: 31 to 100 A-E

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John Adams / Partner and Head of UK Regions / Drivers Jonas / Surveying and Consultancy / Manchester. Adams has been at Drivers Jonas for 24 years and set up the Manchester office with John Walley in 1993 and the Leeds office in 2007. He has advised on Spinningfields, Manchester Beetham Tower, Greengate Salford, Trinity Quarter Leeds, and Liverpool One. The Manchester office has 80 staff and, together with Leeds, turned over £13.18m in 2008/09. The planning and strategic consulting teams are particularly strong and handle some of the most interesting and forward-thinking projects in the region. Current workload includes Peel's Mersey tidal power scheme and the masterplan for the new civil service campus at Mayfield in Manchester.

Chris Bathurst and Chris Jones / Managing Partners / Christopher Dee / Investment Surveying and Consultancy / Manchester. Granted the picture is a bit odd, but the founding partners assure Place it represents their discreet professional manner. The shot was taken during the firm's 10th anniversary trip to Las Vegas earlier this year. The small but expert practice comprises four surveyors all from big agency backgrounds. Bathurst and Jones worked together at St Quintin/Richard Ellis prior to setting up CD. Joined since by Chris Dudhill from CB Richard Ellis and Mark Powell from Atisreal. The calibre of this boutique agency is signalled by handling the current the sale of the MEN Arena, probably the highest profile investment sale underway in the region. Past deals include buying 4 Hardman Square, Spinningfields for BP Pension Fund and advising The Duchy of Lancaster (The Queen is a fully retaining client) on the purchase of 81 Fountain Street.

Tony Bray / Partner and Head of Office / Cushman & Wakefield / Surveying and Consultancy / Manchester. Has had to ride the rough wave of recession on a smaller boat than many other national agencies with a Manchester base. Maintains a staff of 24 and top tier work such as letting agent on Media City UK. Bray was one of the five founding partners to establish the Manchester office of Cushman & Wakefield in 2005 leaving his previous post at Dunlop Haywards. He was appointed head of office in 2007. Bray on 2009: "The year started like an ER patient struggling for a pulse, with very limited corporate activity or confidence and no funding available. The electric jolt of government stimulus, low interest rates and significant cost savings for business have seen the pulse come back, albeit very weak and the outlook will be of lengthy recovery."

Nigel Brook / Managing Director / Kier North West / Construction / Manchester and Liverpool. Brook is responsible for all construction operations across the north of England and manages teams based across Manchester, Liverpool, Wrexham, Leeds and Sheffield. Kier North West employees 177 people and has been named preferred bidder by Bolton Council for the Essa Academy and Bolton St Catherine's Academy & Firwood School contract. The company is also building the new Women's International Centre for Economic Development in Liverpool and a £10.3m sports village for Heywood.

Les Brown / Regional Project Director / Countryside Properties / Development / Salford. In 2005, Brown was appointed as regional project director by Countryside Properties to deliver the regeneration of Lower Broughton, Salford. The first phase of the long-term project will see the regeneration of 22.7 hectares with up to 1,500 new homes, primary school, roads and flood storage infrastructure. There are plans for 5,000 homes in total. Has benefited this year from Kickstart funding from the Homes & Communities Agency to keep going.

Gareth Buckley, Mike Hawkins, Mike Rooney and Mark Williams / Managing Partners / WHR Property Consultants / Surveying and consultancy / Manchester. WHR Property Consultants was established just five years ago by the four partners, all ex Lambert Smith Hampton (qv) and now claims to be Manchester's largest independent multi-disciplinary property consultancy. Has bucked trend of casualties in 20099 with no redundancies. The ultimate compliment - and irony - came in the autumn when three rising stars said they would leave in the New Year to go it alone. Staff numbers at WHR total 25 and turnover this year is expected to be £2.5m. Added Media City UK to its already impressive instruction list. Buckley on 2009: "Although these have been challenging times for us all, 2009 has still proved to be an exciting time for WHR as we have not only won a number of new high profile instructions across the board but are also proud to have been able to grow our existing team through several new appointments during the course of the year enabling us to continue to go from strength to strength."

Jim Buxton / Managing Director / Ellis Williams / Architecture / Warrington. One of the UK's largest independent architectural practices with its HQ in Warrington and further offices in London and Berlin. EW employs nearly 100 staff across the three offices. Buxton joined the practice in 1977 and was appointed MD in 1993. This year the practice was ranked 31st in the UK by Architects Journal magazine, up from last year's 50th position. Projects include the £24m national indoor BMX centre at Sportcity, a new football stadium in Georgia and Park Campus in Lambeth.

David Cheetham / Managing Partner / Cheetham & Mortimer / Surveying and Consultancy / Manchester. Established in the late 1970s, Cheetham & Mortimer is often cited as an exemplary niche agency that knows its knitting and sticks to it. The niche it occupies so well is retail and leisure agency. The firm's client list is always solid and ranges from multinationals such as McDonalds and KFC to developers Pochin and St Modwen, with local authorities and a dozen institutional landlords in for good measure.

Jim and Mark Caldwell / Directors / Bluemantle Group / Development / Alderley Edge. Father and son co-investing asset managers based, the Caldwells look after £120m of investment property with a substantial development pipeline. Received consent in March for a 13-acre residential scheme in Disley, Macclesfield, advised by HOW Planning (qv). In Manchester city centre, started work on a refurbishment of the office upper floors of a large island building between John Dalton Street and King Street, where well-known eating joints Grill on the Alley and Pizza Express occupy the lower floors. Should expect more progress in 2010 on the Bolton town centre joint venture, Church Wharf, with Ask Developments (qv) once the NWDA eventually approves a level of gap-funding. Big rugby fans, the Caldwells sponsor players at Sale Sharks.

Bill Davidson / Director / Indigo Planning / Manchester. Finally securing consent for Port Salford on behalf of Peel Holdings, after seven years of work, would be a highlight of any year let alone such a difficult year as 2009. Davidson said it was a good example of a project where the new Infrastructure Planning Commission would have been effective in speeding up the process. On a smaller scale, negotiation of the consent at Kings Reach for a Hilton Garden Inn, for Seddons, was a significant achievement given sequentially preferable sites in Stockport town centre.

Andrew Dickman / Managing Director / Patrick Properties / Development / Wilmslow. Founded by Dickman and windows tycoon Brian Kennedy in 2002, Wilmslow-based Patrick has established a track record for speculative building of office and industrial space, especially in Cheshire. Tends to retain assets for its investment portfolio. Dickman on 2009: "We broadened our horizons and successfully completed new investment acquisitions totalling in excess of £44m on a national level."

Bob Dyson / North West Chairman / Jones Lang LaSalle / Surveying and Consultancy / Manchester. Having been instrumental in pulling together the Spinningfields development with Allied London (qv), Dyson is set to add the 20-acre Co-operative Group (qv) headquarters and surrounding development to his professional legacy. He also advises on the 4m sq ft Kingsway Business Park in Rochdale where the first phase is nearly fully let. Dyson is also chairman of Pennine Land, the development arm of Rochdale Council. Forms an affable and respected double-act with Jonathan Mills, investment director and head of JLL's Manchester office.

John Early / Chairman / Genr8 / Development / Manchester. The former Amec Developments chairman left when it was sold in summer 2007 to Morgan Sindall and quickly set up Genr8 with two ex Amec colleagues. Genr8 is half owned by the three directors and half by Chelsfield Partners, controlled by property gurus Sir Stuart Lipton and Elliot Bernerd. Genr8's biggest win to date has been the preferred developer status for Rochdale town centre through a re-run competition this year, after a legal challenge scrapped the first contest.

Mike Edge / Partner and National Head of Real Estate / Halliwells / Manchester and Liverpool. Over the past 12 months Edge has continued to advise a wide range of clients including Ask Developments (qv) on the development and sale agreements with Standard Life Investment's Long Lease Fund for its £30m Knowsley Place development in Bury, a local property investor in its acquisition of a portfolio of properties for £20m with debt funding, and he led a team in the property due diligence acting for HBOS in the second phase of funding at Media City UK. In Liverpool, the firm recently announced plans to expand at Bruntwood's (qv) The Plaza, taking an additional 2,000 sq ft to occupy 23,000 sq ft in all.

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