:The Peel Group

The Peel Group was known from 1973 to 1981 as Peel Mills (Holdings) Ltd; from 1981 to 2004 as Peel Holdings plc, and then the wider organisation took its present form.{{Cite news |date=2005-06-30 |title=Peel Holdings milestones |language=en |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/business-news/peel-holdings-milestones-1056758 |access-date=2022-07-08 |archive-date=27 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327102727/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/business-news/peel-holdings-milestones-1056758 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |title=PEEL LAND AND PROPERTY INVESTMENTS PLC overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK |language=en |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00166957 |access-date=2022-07-08 |archive-date=8 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708211127/https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00166957 |url-status=live }}

Inspired by the Peel Tower near his native Bury, Whittaker retained the name Peel Mills Ltd for his property and cotton business.

After a period on the Manchester Stock Exchange, Peel Holdings listed on the London Stock Exchange Official List in 1983. It transferred to the Alternative Investment Market in January 2000 before the Whittaker family and The Olayan Group majority shareholders bought out Peel Holdings' 6.63% minority shareholders in 2004, taking the business private.{{Cite news |title=Investegate - Peel Holdings PLC Announcements - Peel Holdings PLC: Minority Buyout Proposal |url=https://www.investegate.co.uk/peel-holdings-plc--peel-/rns/minority-buyout-proposal/200406300700232875A/ |access-date=2022-07-08 |archive-date=8 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708211131/https://www.investegate.co.uk/peel-holdings-plc--peel-/rns/minority-buyout-proposal/200406300700232875A/ |url-status=live }}

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John Whittaker began assembling the business in the 1960s, supplying aggregate from his family's quarries to projects such as the M63 motorway.

Once quarries were exhausted he turned them into landfill waste sites, the profits invested in cotton businesses with property assets. He consolidated the cotton processing in new buildings, often built on top of the now full landfill sites, and redeveloped the former cotton mills as light industrial units to let. By 1977 a majority of the firm's activity was property development, and by the early 1980s that was predominantly new-build, industrial units and out-of-town retail stores.

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{{Main|Manchester Ship Canal}}

From 1971, Whittaker acquired shares in the Manchester Ship Canal Company that unlike most other British canals had not been nationalised post-World War II.{{Citation |title=Salford Quays Milestones: The Story of Salford Quays |url=http://www.salford.gov.uk/milestones_v2.pdf |page=3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327122642/http://www.salford.gov.uk/milestones_v2.pdf |publisher=salford.gov.uk |access-date=21 August 2009 |archive-date=27 March 2009 |url-status=dead}}

Peel sold its cotton business for £22 million to finance the purchase of more canal shares and in 1986 proposed developing an out-of-town shopping centre, that would become the Trafford Centre, on the company's land.

Manchester City Council still had a stake in the canal but now faced a conflict of interest as both a local planning authority and shareholder. Its minority shareholding also no longer gave it any real control over the company. Accordingly, in 1986 it surrendered the right to appoint all but one of the Manchester Ship Canal's directors, and sold its shares to Whittaker for £10 million.{{cite book|title=Detonation:Rebirth of a City|date=2006|last=King|first=Ray|publisher=Clear Publications|isbn=0955262100|location=Warrington}}

By 1987 he had acquired control of the business and bought out the remaining minority shareholders in 1993.{{Citation |last=Stevenson |first=Tom |title=Slow net asset growth hits Peel |date=15 July 1994 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/slow-net-asset-growth-hits-peel-1414017.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/slow-net-asset-growth-hits-peel-1414017.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Independent |access-date=22 September 2011}}{{Cite news |title=History and vision |work=Peel Group |url=http://www.peel.co.uk/aboutus/history-and-vision |access-date=18 July 2011 |archive-date=20 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720125836/http://www.peel.co.uk/aboutus/history-and-vision |url-status=live }}

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In 1987, Peel submitted a planning application for a shopping centre development on land attached to the Manchester Ship Canal, adjacent to the M63, now the M60, in Trafford. It opened in 1998 after one of the most prolonged and expensive planning processes in British history.

It sold the Trafford Centre in January 2011 to Capital Shopping Centres for £1.6bn of which £700 million was in shares, being 20% of the purchaser's share capital. Peel continued to purchase shares after the transaction and was the largest shareholder in 2012, with a stake of 24.63%. In 2020, Capital Shopping Centres, now renamed Intu Properties plc, went into administration eliminating shareholder value.{{cite news |title=Shopping centre giant Intu enters administration |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53195980 |access-date=26 June 2020 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=26 June 2020 |archive-date=26 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626132306/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53195980 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |title=Trafford Centre set for £1.6bn sale to CSC group |last=Thompson |first=Thomas |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/trafford-centre-set-for-16316bn-sale-to-csc-group-2143056.html |newspaper=The Independent |date=25 November 2010 |access-date=8 March 2012 |archive-date=8 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808191804/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/trafford-centre-set-for-16316bn-sale-to-csc-group-2143056.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news | title=Whittaker spends £2m on CSC shares | url=http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/archive/11225-whittaker-spends-2m-on-csc-shares.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906195022/http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/archive/11225-whittaker-spends-2m-on-csc-shares.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=6 September 2012 | work=Place North West | date=14 March 2012 | access-date=14 March 2012 }}

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In 2007, Peel obtained planning permission to develop a {{convert|37|acre}} site on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford. It became the new home of the BBC in the north of England. Other studios in the complex include Peel Group operated dock10; ITV's northern facilities including those for Coronation Street, and the University of Salford.{{citation |title=Planning Application 06/53168/OUT |publisher=Salford City Council }}{{citation |title=Planning Application 07/54178/REM |publisher=Salford City Council}}{{cite web |last1=Roue |first1=Lucy |title=dock10 and ITV studios extend contract until 2018 |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/dock10-itv-studios-extend-contract-11500452 |publisher=Manchester Evening News |date=21 June 2016 |access-date=9 May 2019 |archive-date=9 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509113120/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/dock10-itv-studios-extend-contract-11500452 |url-status=live }}

Plans for a £1bn expansion to MediaCityUK were approved in 2016. The development would double the size and include more TV studio and production space as well as shops, offices, a 330-bed hotel and 1,400 homes (Manchester Waters).{{Cite news |last=Fitzgerald |first=Todd |date=1 September 2016 |title=£1bn plan to double the size of MediaCityUK gets go ahead |work=men |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/1bn-plan-double-size-mediacityuk-11830587 |access-date=6 July 2017 |archive-date=5 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705020955/http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/1bn-plan-double-size-mediacityuk-11830587 |url-status=live }}

In 2021, Landsec acquired a {{3/4}} stake in MediaCityUK, buying out a {{1/2}} share Legal & General purchased in 2015, reducing Peel's share to {{1/4}}.{{Cite web |date=2021-11-03 |title=Land Securities pays £425.6m for majority stake in MediaCity |url=https://quoteddata.com/2021/11/land-securities-pays-4256m-majority-stake-mediacity/ |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=QuotedData |language=en |archive-date=24 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124081525/https://quoteddata.com/2021/11/land-securities-pays-4256m-majority-stake-mediacity/ |url-status=live }}

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In 2011, Peel acquired a controlling 71% interest in Pinewood Shepperton Plc for £96 million. In 2016, it cut its stake in the film studio operator from 58% to 39%, and then sold the remainder to Leon Bressler's PW Real Estate Fund.{{Cite news |title=Peel sells 19% of its Pinewood Studio shares |language=en-US |work=Prolific North |url=https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/2015/04/peel-sells-19-of-its-pinewood-stdio-shares/ |access-date=6 July 2017 |archive-date=9 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309073732/https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/2015/04/peel-sells-19-of-its-pinewood-stdio-shares/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |title=Pinewood Group sold for £323m, netting majority shareholders Peel £126m |language=en-US |work=Prolific North |url=https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/2016/10/pinewood-group-sold-for-323m-netting-majority-shareholders-peel-126m/ |access-date=6 July 2017 |archive-date=10 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310031628/https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/2016/10/pinewood-group-sold-for-323m-netting-majority-shareholders-peel-126m/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/pinewood-shepperton-back-96m-takeover-offer-2275350.html|title=Pinewood Shepperton back £96m takeover offer|date=27 April 2011|work=The Independent|access-date=30 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119004545/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/pinewood-shepperton-back-96m-takeover-offer-2275350.html|archive-date=19 January 2012|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/8476236/Pinewood-Shepperton-backs-higher-Peel-Group-bid-over-interest-from-billionaire-businessman-Mohammed-Fayed.html|title=Pinewood Shepperton backs higher Peel Group bid over interest from billionaire businessman Mohammed Fayed|date=27 April 2011|work=The Telegraph|access-date=30 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430074216/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/8476236/Pinewood-Shepperton-backs-higher-Peel-Group-bid-over-interest-from-billionaire-businessman-Mohammed-Fayed.html|archive-date=30 April 2011|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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Wind Farm viewed from Manchester, 2012]]

Peel opened a 65 MW Scout Moor Wind Farm between Edenfield and Rochdale in 2008. Their remaining interest in Scout Moor was sold to MEAG in October 2012.{{Cite web |title=Scout Moor |url=http://www.peelenergy.co.uk/scout-moor |access-date=2020-03-17 |website=Peel Energy |language=en-US |archive-date=17 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317212335/http://www.peelenergy.co.uk/scout-moor |url-status=live }}

10 MW Huskisson Dock Wind Farm in 2009 and took over management of the 3.6 MW Port of Seaforth Wind Farm.

50.35 MW Frodsham Wind Farm and 8.2 MW Port of Sheerness Wind Farm both of which became operational in late 2016.

Peel obtained planning consent for a 20 MW biomass combined heat and power power station at Barton, Greater Manchester.{{Cite web |title=Biomass, Combined Heat and Power |url=http://www.peelenergy.co.uk/biomass |access-date=2020-03-17 |website=Peel Energy |language=en-US |archive-date=15 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200315145648/http://www.peelenergy.co.uk/biomass |url-status=live }}

In 2015 Peel announced £700 million Protos scheme on a {{Convert|134|acre}} site near Ellesmere Port. Phase One included a 21.5 MW biomass facility and 19-turbine wind farm and was opened in January 2017 by Andrew Percy, Minister for the Northern Powerhouse.{{Cite news |date=29 October 2015 |title=Place North West - Peel launches £170m Protos energy park |language=en-GB |work=Place North West |url=https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/peel-launches-170m-protos-energy-park/ |access-date=6 July 2017 |archive-date=16 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816010747/https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/peel-launches-170m-protos-energy-park/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Northern Powerhouse launches Protos {{!}} Northern Powerhouse |url=http://northernpowerhouse.gov.uk/2017/02/northern-powerhouse-minister-launches-protos/ |access-date=6 July 2017 |website=northernpowerhouse.gov.uk |language=en-GB |archive-date=8 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308075651/http://northernpowerhouse.gov.uk/2017/02/northern-powerhouse-minister-launches-protos/ |url-status=dead }}

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In March 2016 Peel Land and Property announced plans to build 30,000 homes across its estate over the next 30 years.{{Cite news |date=15 March 2016 |title=Place North West {{!}} Peel launches Strategic Waters residential drive |language=en-GB |work=Place North West |url=https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/peel-launches-strategic-waters-residential-drive/ |access-date=6 July 2017 |archive-date=28 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528180108/https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/peel-launches-strategic-waters-residential-drive/ |url-status=live }}

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In 2022, Peel Land and Property promoted closure of Chatham Docks to make way for 3,625 new homes, and commercial uses. It argued the cost of refurbishing the dock gates was not economic.

The Peel Group has a complex business structure, consisting of 342 registered and active companies and subsidiaries excluding Peel Ports in the UK. Its ultimate parent company is the Isle of Man-based Tokenhouse Ltd.{{Cite web |title=Polluter Profile: Peel Ports |url=https://www.gcop.scot/peel-ports/ |access-date=2022-07-08 |website=Glasgow Calls Out Polluters |language=en-GB |archive-date=4 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504232223/https://www.gcop.scot/peel-ports |url-status=live }}

Campaigners objected to an LNG terminal Peel proposed for Hunterston Parc, Largs. The scheme included a combined cycle gas turbine power station; deep water port; facilities for oil rig decommissioning; a site for the recycling and storage of plastics, and dredging 2.4 million cubic metres of seabed. No environmental impact assessment was provided for the development.

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In 2011, Peel was accused of illegally extracting peat from its land near Salford. Following a 2012 Public Inquiry, Communities and Local Government Minister, Eric Pickles, backed Salford Council and Wigan Council in refusing further extraction at Chat Moss.

In 2015, Peel established a biomass terminal at Liverpool's Gladstone Dock for wood pellet imports from wetland forests in the Southern US. The pellets are then transported to Drax Power Station to be burnt. Campaigners objected to the greenhouse gas created in the process.

In 2021, multiple complaints were made about parking fines being issued by automated systems at Stockport Peel Centre even after motorists had purchased parking tickets.{{Cite news |date=2021-07-21 |title=Fine row rumbles on at shopping centre car park |work=Stockport Express |url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/stockport-express/20210728/281569473761370 |access-date=2023-05-10 |archive-date=10 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710151657/https://www.pressreader.com/uk/stockport-express/20210728/281569473761370 |url-status=live |via=PressReader |language=en}}

Peel's Clydeport business was fined £5,000 in 2001 following a shore side fatality at Hunterston Terminal. The prior year it paid a £7,500 fine for an earlier incident.{{Cite news |date=2014-09-27 |title=Clydeport convicted twice prior to Phantom tragedy |language=en |url=https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/14017072.clydeport-convicted-twice-prior-to-phantom-tragedy/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |archive-date=14 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714163435/https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/14017072.clydeport-convicted-twice-prior-to-phantom-tragedy/ |url-status=live }}

In 2014, Peel's Clydeport business pleaded guilty to health and safety breaches and was fined £650,000 following a triple fatality. River Clyde tug Flying Phantom capsized in the 2007 incident. Judgement found there had been systematic failure in risk assessments and safe systems of work. The charges also related to a similar incident involving the tug in 2000.{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Isobel |date=2014-10-03 |title=Port operator fined £650,000 following deaths of three crewmen |language=en-US |url=https://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/port-operator-fined-650000-following-deaths-of-three-crewmen-283 |access-date=2022-07-14 |archive-date=24 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724053654/https://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/port-operator-fined-650000-following-deaths-of-three-crewmen-283 |url-status=live }}

In 2014, high level collusion was found between Peel, police and a council. Documents revealed Salford Council, IGas Energy, Greater Manchester Police and Peel were sharing intelligence during anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss.

In 2008, Peel was alleged to have covertly controlled a group that campaigned against a congestion charge for Manchester. It was claimed Peel feared a congestion charge would harm business at their Trafford Centre. Voters rejected introducing a congestion charge.{{Cite web |last=Shrubsole |first=Guy |date=19 April 2019 |title=Who owns the country? The secretive companies hoarding England's land |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/19/who-owns-england-secretive-companies-hoarding-land |access-date=23 April 2019 |website=The Guardian |archive-date=23 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423133959/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/19/who-owns-england-secretive-companies-hoarding-land |url-status=live }}

In 2013, a report by Liverpool think-tank ExUrbe criticised Peel's excessive influence on affairs and development in the Liverpool region, claiming Peel "blurred the boundaries between public and private interests".{{Cite web |title=Liverpool Echo: Latest Liverpool and Merseyside news, sports and what's on |url=http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2013/03/14/think-tank-questions-influence-of-peel-holdings-and-warns-liverpool-becoming-one-company-town-99623-32983337/2/ |website=liverpoolecho |access-date=6 April 2013 |archive-date=19 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319041144/http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2013/03/14/think-tank-questions-influence-of-peel-holdings-and-warns-liverpool-becoming-one-company-town-99623-32983337/2/ |url-status=live }}

In June 2013, Margaret Hodge, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, accused Peel of tax dodging, and explained some parts of the group pay on average 10% Corporation Tax, and the more profitable ones paid no tax at all.{{Cite web |last=Jennifer Williams |date=11 June 2013 |title=Property giant Peel Group accused of 'tax dodging' |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/property-giant-peel-group-accused-4290988 |website=men |access-date=12 June 2013 |archive-date=29 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329035756/http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/property-giant-peel-group-accused-4290988 |url-status=live }}

In 2006 Peel required the Warship Preservation Trust to leave their Birkenhead premises. The trust was unable to find an alternative location for its vessels and shut down. HMS Plymouth remained berthed and Peel took possession. In 2014, campaigners disputed the legality of those ownership rights. The group accused the port of allowing the ship's condition to worsen in order to make any attempt to move/preserve her appear unfeasible.{{Citation |last=Plymouth Trust |title=Peel Ports Deliberate Neglect and Damage of HMS Plymouth |date=29 September 2013 |url=http://www.hmsplymouthtrust.co.uk/news_37.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606222217/http://www.hmsplymouthtrust.co.uk/news_37.html |publisher=Plymouth Trust |archive-date=6 June 2014}}{{Cite web |last=Plymouth Trust |date=September 2013 |title=The Fight for HMS Plymouth goes to Parliament |url=http://www.hmsplymouthtrust.co.uk/news_35.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606234846/http://www.hmsplymouthtrust.co.uk/news_35.html |archive-date=6 June 2014 |publisher=Plymouth Trust}}

The campaigners were also critical of the way the subsequent sale of the vessel to Turkey for scrap was conducted.{{Cite news |last=Eve |first=Carl |date=30 September 2014 |title=Campaigners in Turkey confirm HMS Plymouth has been scrapped |work=Plymouth Herald |url=http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Campaigners-Turkey-confirm-HMS-Plymouth-scrapped/story-23021010-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |access-date=25 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924074609/http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Campaigners-Turkey-confirm-HMS-Plymouth-scrapped/story-23021010-detail/story.html |archive-date=24 September 2015}}

In 2009, following redundancies (layoffs) at Peel's Marine Terminals Ltd subsidiary in Dublin, and eight weeks of industrial action, strikers seized the cargo handling company's control room. In co-ordinated action, Dutch FNV Union occupied the headquarters of sister subsidiary BG Freight's head office in Rotterdam. Peel had hired private security firm Control Risks to police their Dublin facility.{{Cite web |title=Port premises occupied as 700 march for Dublin dockers |url=https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/20546 |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=An Phoblacht |archive-date=3 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903030439/https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/20546 |url-status=live }}

During unloading of the MV Francop at Peel's Dublin container port a sailor was crushed to death. During the 2018 incident a stack of four cargo containers was lifted off the vessel with a crane, resulting in the bottom container parting from the stack and falling onto the sailor. It was alleged against Peel's subsidiary Marine Terminals Ltd that there was no appropriate planning, instruction, communication and supervision of the method to insert a missing deck lock under the bottom container in the stack.{{Cite web |last=Tuite |first=Tom |date=2021-07-12 |title=Freight firm faces trial after seaman crushed to death at Dublin Port |url=https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/freight-firm-faces-trial-after-seaman-crushed-to-death-at-dublin-port-1156294.html |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=BreakingNews.ie |language=en |archive-date=13 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713074200/https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/freight-firm-faces-trial-after-seaman-crushed-to-death-at-dublin-port-1156294.html |url-status=live }}

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In 2014, Warrington Council accused Peel's Manchester Ship Canal of "self interest" and prioritising canal users rather than vehicle traffic in its operation of swing bridges over the canal. The council and canal operator subsequently announced they would work together. Residents were particularly concerned about the situation when the M6 Thelwall Viaduct had to be closed for maintenance, leaving no alternative route locally across the canal.{{Cite news |last=Waddington |first=Marc |date=2014-01-30 |title=Trouble over bridged water in Warrington |language=en |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/ship-canal-bridge-row-between-6646631 |access-date=2022-07-08 |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928042824/https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/ship-canal-bridge-row-between-6646631 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |date=2014-03-04 |title=Council and Peel Ports promise action on traffic chaos |language=en |url=https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/11052706.council-and-peel-ports-promise-action-on-traffic-chaos/ |access-date=2022-07-08 |archive-date=8 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708211129/https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/11052706.council-and-peel-ports-promise-action-on-traffic-chaos/ |url-status=live }}

In his 2019 book Who Owns England, Guy Shrubsole describes Peel as one of the 'secretive' companies that "hoards England's land" and has made significant impacts, good and bad, on the environment and people's lives:

{{blockquote|Peel Holdings operates behind the scenes, quietly acquiring land and real estate, cutting billion-pound deals and influencing numerous planning decisions. Its investment decisions have had an enormous impact, whether for good or ill, on the places where millions of people live and work.}}

In July 2021, the World Heritage Committee cited the development of Liverpool Waters as a reason for the revocation of Liverpool's World Heritage status.

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