East Midlands
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Stakis puts 8 hotels worth £45m on the auction block
Stakis has put eight of its 11 three-star hotels up for sale in a move which could raise up to £45m.
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Pillar pays £50m for Fosse Plaza, Leicester
Pillar is set to announce it has paid a record price for a retail park without open A1 consent, buying Castlemore Securities Fosse Plaza in Leicester for about £50m representing…
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Tesco gets go-ahead for 71,830 sq ft superstore at Hamilton District Centre, Leicester
Leicester Council has given detailed planning consent for a 6,673 sq m (71,830 sq ft) Tesco superstore at Hamilton District Centre, Maidenwell Avenue.
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CCN Group seeks site for another 70,000 sq ft of offices in Nottingham
Fast-growing CCN Group, a subsidiary of Great Universal Stores and one of Nottingham’s biggest employers, is looking for a site in the city to build 6,503sq m (70,000sq ft) of…
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Eurotunnel gets the go-ahead to resume freight services
Eurotunnel has been given permission to handle freight again. Le Shuttle freight service will start on June 15, subject to certain safety checks being completed.
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CMA House to be first office to residential conversion in central Nottingham
CMA House, an empty 1960s, five-storey office building in Nottingham, is to be converted into flats – the first offices to residential change of use in the city centre.
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Over 250,000 sq ft of speculative warehouses under construction near Jctn 28 of M1
Walker & Son has started work on over 23,225 sq m (250,000 sq ft) of speculative warehousing at two sites near Sutton in Ashfield, north Nottinghamshire.
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Toyota considers expansion of Derbyshire plant for new small car production
Toyota is looking to build a new small car at a European plant. It will start production in 2001. It could be located at its Burnaston plant, in Derbyshire, but…
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PowerGen and Siemens win permission for £150m Cottam Development Centre
PowerGen and Siemens have won planning consent to build Cottam Development Centre, in Nottinghamshire. It will be an experimental £150m joint venture centre for testing and demonstrating combined cycle gas…
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RJB threatens four pit closures
Britain’s leading coal producer, RJB Mining is threatening to close up to four of its 19 pits if power generators cut their purchases significantly when existing contracts run out next…
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Blair faces European battle for Derby to win Toyota ‘supermini’ factory
Toyota wants a £100m aid package from the British government to build a third model at its Derby car plant. But even if the Labour Prime Minister stumps up the…
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Westbury starts £26m site purchase progamme with joint venture in Huntingdon
Westbury has marked the start of a 12-month £26m residential land acquisition programme across the East Midlands with the joint purchase of a site in Huntingdon, on the eastern boundary…