Bracknell Forest Council has assets as far afield as Sheffield, Stowmarket and Southampton, the News can reveal.

The council is the landlord for properties housing logistics companies, an energy firm and a business consultant, among others. It also owns an array of shops and parades, closer to home in Bracknell, Sandhurst and Ascot.

The News can reveal the council’s full list of commercial assets after submitting a freedom of information request.

Among the council’s list of investments are properties occupied by GXO Logistics in Stowmarket, which is in Suffolk, the Webhelp business consultancy in Sheffield and Utilita Energy in Southampton.

Other investments include a unit at a retail park in Lincoln housing The Range and Wren Kitchens homeware stores, a warehouse occupied by CEVA Logistics in Redditch, Worcestershire, and an office for Shoosmiths LLP lawyers in Northampton.

The council also has investments in properties at the Peel Centre retail park in Bracknell and the David Lloyd Racquets and Health Club on Nine Mile Ride.

A Bracknell Forest Council spokesperson said the council is the landlord for all of these properties. The freedom of information request says its current rental income from these is just over six and a half million pounds.

The news asked Bracknell Forest Council for a list of its commercial assets after councillors agreed a plan to sell off some of its properties.

Finance bosses say the proceeds of a selloff would be used to fund a plan to make the council more efficient – so saving money in the long run.

Bracknell Forest Council’s director of resources Stuart McKellar said in November last year that those chosen for sale would not be ‘operational.’

He also said the council would be looking at properties it owns as a legacy of Bracknell’s history as a ‘New Town’ – one of those largely developed after the Second World War.

The freedom of information request shows the council owns 126 units in parades of shops throughout the borough, earning just over a million pounds.

It also owns 84 ‘commercial’ properties such as workshops, earning just over £950,000. And it has 18 properties dubbed ‘miscellaneous’ including bus stations and dentists.

The full list of the council’s assets is in the map below.

Executive director for deliver Kevin Gibbs told the News that money from the council’s assets helps fund essential services or provide spaces for employment and leisure.

He added that the council had not decided which properties it would sell, and couldn’t speculate without speaking to tenants first.

Mr Gibbs said: “Like many other new towns, Bracknell Forest Council owns a number of industrial, commercial and community properties.

“The money the council gets from these properties pays for essential services or helps us achieve societal benefits, such as creating spaces for employment, community shopping areas and providing leisure, sports, arts and cultural facilities.”

He added: “As a large landlord we have a variety of tenants, both in size and type of business. The council has a high occupancy rate and we have good, long term relationships with our tenants.

“This stability has been key to the success of our borough and means we have very few vacant properties.

“No decisions have been made yet about which properties may be sold as part of our capital receipts strategy. It would be inappropriate for us to comment or speculate on that without speaking to any tenants affected first.”