Land and buildings
Freehold
£m
Long
leasehold
£m
Short
leasehold
£m
Plant and
machinery
£m
Fixtures
and fittings
£m
Assets under
construction
£m
Total
£m
Cost or valuation
At 1 January 2016213.99.58.9752.825.151.61,061.8
Additions1.80.70.117.30.844.064.7
Acquisition of businesses5.111.40.216.7
Exchange differences32.70.51.4108.73.87.8154.9
Transfer to assets held for sale(1.1)(1.1)
Recategorisation5.00.41.027.60.8(34.8)
Disposals(1.7)(0.8)(13.9)(1.1)(0.1)(17.6)
Disposal of businesses(2.9)(2.6)(5.5)
At 1 January 2017252.811.110.6901.329.668.51,273.9
Additions0.61.70.210.80.459.673.3
Acquisition of businesses8.78.7
Exchange differences(0.8)0.1(0.4)(11.7)0.2(0.6)(13.2)
Fair value adjustment(0.6)(0.6)
Transfer to assets held for sale(1.4)(1.4)
Recategorisation6.1(1.1)3.151.71.1(60.9)
Disposals(3.9)(31.2)(1.5)(0.1)(36.7)
At 31 December 2017253.411.813.5929.029.866.51,304.0
Accumulated depreciation and impairment
At 1 January 201692.04.76.1509.519.9632.2
Charge for the year6.70.50.644.61.754.1
Impairment losses incurred0.24.70.15.0
Exchange differences14.70.10.974.63.093.3
Transfer to assets held for sale(0.7)(0.7)
Eliminated on disposals(1.0)(0.4)(0.7)(12.0)(1.1)(15.2)
Eliminated on disposal of businesses(0.9)(2.9)(3.8)
At 1 January 2017110.84.97.1618.523.6764.9
Charge for the year6.51.00.748.41.558.1
Impairment losses incurred0.40.4
Exchange differences0.4(0.1)(5.5)0.1(5.1)
Transfer to assets held for sale(0.6)(0.6)
Recategorisation1.1(0.9)(0.2)
Eliminated on disposals(3.2)(29.5)(1.5)(34.2)
At 31 December 2017115.05.07.7632.123.7783.5
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2017138.46.85.8296.96.166.5520.5
At 31 December 2016142.06.23.5282.86.068.5509.0

During the year a £0.6m fair value adjustment was made to the value of acquired plant and machinery from 2016.

At 31 December 2017 the Group had entered into contractual commitments for the acquisition of property, plant and equipment amounting to £2.6m (2016: £1.7m).

In addition to the above, property, plant and equipment amounting to £2.1m (2016: £1.8m) has been classified as held for sale and is disclosed within current assets.

The Group restructured various operations during the year and identified £0.4m (2016: £5.0m) of asset impairments. Asset impairments broken down by business segment are as follows:

2017
£m
2016
£m
ADE:
Western Europe0.2
North America0.5
Emerging markets0.2
AGI:
Western Europe0.20.3
North America3.8
Emerging markets0.2
0.45.0

It is the directors' view that there are no material differences between the value of the land owned and their carrying value in the balance sheet.