South East
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Fears grow over future of Vauxhall Merseyside plant
Speculation is growing that Vauxhall will shut its Ellesmere Port plant on Merseyside. The company has failed to promise it will survive once its Luton, Bedfordshire, car factory closes.
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Three new cities anointed today
Britain’s three new millennium cities will be named today. They will be Inverness, Scotland Brighton, East Sussex and Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands, according to The Guardian.
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M&S to test convenience stores
Marks & Spencer will test a new convenience store format in Twickenham, Middlesex, and Surbiton, Surrey, next May. It will roll out 40-100 stores if successful.
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Brighton set for multi-million-pound makeover
A derelict part of central Brighton is set to undergo a multi-million-pound makeover. Norwich Union Public Private Partnership, a joint venture between development and PFI specialist Mill Group and Morley…
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Challenge to lawful use ruling fails
A challenge to the grant of permission for the use of land near Epping as a scrapyard has failed. The local authority decision to grant a certificate of lawful established…
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High Court challenge over Feltham housing development plans
Developer St James Homes Ltd has gone to the High Court in a bid to overturn the Environment Secretarys decision to block its plans for a housing development in Feltham.
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Freeport wins consent for £15m Essex development
Freeport has won planning permission from Braintree council to develop its 13,656 sq m (147,000 sq ft) site, at its Essex designer outlet village.
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Appeal Court gives go-ahead to enforcement case challenge
Landowner Terry Holding has failed to block Thurrock Borough Councils right to challenge a DoE inspectors decision allowing the use of green belt land at Kings Farm, Parkers Farm Road,…
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Freeport wins consent for Braintree scheme
Designer outlet centre specialist Freeport has won detailed planning consent for the 13,656 sq m (147,000 sq ft) phase two of its Essex Village scheme in Braintree.
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IT and telecoms explosion set to drive M1 office boom
The M1 corridor could be next in line to benefit from the M4 motorway’s technology overspill, according to a report from surveyor Lambert Smith Hampton.
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Creche for men opens in Lakeside
Lakeside shopping centre in Thurrock, Essex, has opened the first creche in the country where women can drop off their men while they shop.
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Margate gets millions of pounds of Lottery cash
Millions of pounds of National Lottery money are to be spent on refurbishing the seaside town of Margate, in Kent. Work has already begun.