East Midlands
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Officers Club breaks Zone A record for Victoria Centre in Nottingham
Officers Club has signed up for Dusco and CSC’s Victoria Shopping Centre in Nottingham and set a new record Zone A rent for the centre at £173 per sq ft.
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Property development kicks in at Henry Boot
Pre-tax profits at Sheffield-based Henry Boot increased 8% to £9.4m from £8.7m in the year to the end of December, despite turnover continuing to fall.
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Birch Developments to build 220,000 sq ft of sheds on Nottinghamshire rubbish dump
Birch Developments is planning to build a 20,438 sq m (220,000 sq ft) industrial park on a former rubbish dump in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire.
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Minerva confirms Prime PFI role as it posts £8.5m profits
Minerva has posted pre-tax profits of £8.5m for the six months to January in the first set of results since the property company floated last year.
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House of Fraser plans no further store disposals
House of Fraser said it had no plans to dispose of more stores, following Eastbourne, Scunthorpe and Sheffield. It is close to selling one of them and talks are progressing…
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Retailers and developers increasingly cautious about planning appeals
Retailers and developers are becoming more cautious about going to planning appeal on out-of-town sites as more than half of all retail appeals are now turned down under the revised…
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Friends Provident gets go-ahead for multiplex at Castle Mall, Norwich
Friends Provident has won its fight to build a multiplex cinema on top of its Castle Mall shopping centre in Norwich.
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De La Rue to shut Dunstable factory in £15m restructure
De La Rue announced a £15m restructure. The specialist paper and banknote printer’s Dunstable factory will close. The security print operations will move to High Wycombe.
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Wrenbridge continues development programme with two acquisitions totalling £2m
Cambridge-based development company Wrenbridge has paid just under £2m for investments as part of its plan to develop more than 371,600 sq m (4m sq ft) of business space around…
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Planners back proposal for redevelopment of West India Quay, London Docklands
London Docklands Development Corporation is set to back plans for a massive redevelopment of former sugar warehouses at West India Quay, E14.
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Frontier Estates set to develop 75,000 sq ft speculative shed in Milton Keynes
Frontier Estates is planning a 6,967 sq m (75,000 sq ft) speculative industrial scheme on a recently acquired 1.61ha (4 acre) site at Bradwell Abbey Industrial Estate, Milton Keynes in…
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Irish investor buys UK office retail and office portfolio for £5.6m
The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Superannuation Fund has sold an 11-property retail and office portfolio to a private Irish property company for £5.555m.