Seeboard , formerly South Eastern Electricity Board (SEEB), was a British electricity company. The electrical power industry in the United Kingdom was nationalised by the Electricity Act 1947 , when over 600 electric power companies were merged into 12 area boards, one of which was the South Eastern Electricity Board. At its closure it served nearly 2 million residential customers.
7-521: The key people on the board were: Charles George Morley New (d.1957) (1948–55), Chairman Harold V. Pugh (1964), E. Sinnott (1967), Deputy Chairman E. Sinnott (1964), A. G. Milne (1967), full-time member E. Peel (1964, 1967). The board acquired the then Princes Hotel ) on the seafront in Hove , East Sussex , and converted it to a headquarters. The building was refurbished and substantially extended between 1979 and 1981. The total number of customers supplied by
14-696: A nearby Seeboard office in Portslade . Seeboard Powerlink , a company owned by Seeboard, BICC and ABB, was awarded (on 13 August 1998) a 30-year contract to operate, maintain, finance and renew London Underground 's high-voltage power distribution network, under the terms of the UK government's private finance initiative . Seeboard Powerlink became responsible for distribution of high-voltage electricity supplies to London Underground's substations and more than 400 kilometres (250 miles) of track. The contract included significant capital construction and installation works on
21-533: The LUL power system valued at approximately £100 million. In 2002 Seeboard joined 24seven Utility Services under the ownership of the LE Group , which then rebranded in 2003 to become EDF Energy Networks, the UK branch of Électricité de France , before being acquired by Cheung Kong Holdings and renamed UK Power Networks . Kings House, Hove Kings House is a Grade II listed building in Hove that
28-501: The board was: The amount of electricity, in GWh, sold by the South Eastern Electricity Board over its operational life was: On 31 March 1990 the area electricity boards were changed to independent regional electricity companies (REC), and Seeboard plc was formed. On 11 December 1990 the RECs were privatised. The Hove headquarters was closed in 1994, but some jobs were transferred to
35-454: The building to Hove Town Hall by December 2016. It was sold for £26 million in July 2017 to Mortar Nova Grand Avenue, a joint venture development vehicle between developer Rego Property and Pacific Investments. The buyer plans to turn the building back into housing. In July 2018, new partners joined the joint venture with the original partners exited. The new partner is a REPE Fund managed by
42-405: The building was bought by SEEBOARD to use as the company headquarters, before being bought by Brighton and Hove City Council in 1996. In 1974, the building became a Grade II listed building. In July 2014, Kings House was put up for sale for £10 million, as part of a cost saving plan. By 2015, the valuation of the property had increased to around £20 million, with staff being relocated from
49-706: Was previously used as offices by Brighton and Hove City Council . It is situated in Grand Avenue. Kings House was built between 1871 and 1874 by James Knowles ; originally it was built as seven mansion blocks, and was based on the style of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight . It then became a hotel, called the Prince's Hotel, before being used by the Royal Navy during the Second World War . In 1948,
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