South East
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Centrica completes Windsor Office Park take-up
The whole of Windsor Office Park has been snapped up by gas retail company Centrica (as tipped on EGi, 8 June).
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Brixton scores hat trick of Farnborough leases
Brixton Estate has agreed three leases at its Southwood Business Park, Farnborough, all at £129 per sq m (£12 per sq ft).
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Seeda wants more cash to meet brownfield targets
Seeda, the south-east regional development agency (RDA), will tell ministers annual subsidies of £30m-£60m are needed to meet the government’s brownfield land housing targets in the region.
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Wal-Mart opens in Bristol
Wal-Mart is opening a store at Cribb’s Causeway, Bristol, on Monday. It will be the first of up to 10 more specialising in low-cost goods that will open within five…
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IT giant confirms Reading deal despite UK tax concerns
Veritas Software has confirmed that its European headquarters will be built at Prudential’s Green Park in Reading, as tipped in Estates Gazette on 8 April.
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Bridal gown business looks to third site
C&C Coutre looks likely to open a combined 139 sq m (1,500 sq ft) retail/workshop. The bridal gown business has outlets in the Oxfordshire towns of Watlington, and Henley-on-Thames.
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Veritas to open in Reading and Watford
Veritas will announce today it will spend £250m on a new European headquarters in Reading, Berkshire and a research and development facility in Watford, Hertfordshire.
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Leisure giants take MEPC Two Rivers plunge
Two of the leisure sector’s biggest names have signed up to MEPC’s 22,063 sq m (237,491 sq ft) Two Rivers mixed-use development in Staines, Middlesex.
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Plans for £150m Whitgift Centre extension unveiled
The joint owners of Croydon’s Whitgift Centre have unveiled ambitious plans for a £150m extension to the 1970s-built city centre retail scheme.
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Stumbling block removed from Oxford FC plan
A potential stumbling block to major plans by Oxford United Football Club to fund a new stadium by building a multiplex cinema has been removed at the eleventh hour.
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Duke Street wants Great Mills for Focus
Duke Street Capital has confirmed its interest in buying Great Mills from RMC. RMC plans to dispose of non-core businesses, of which Great Mills’ 95 do-it-yourself stores form a part.
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Lib-Dem MP does not give a fig for Portcullis trees
Norman Baker, Liberal-Democrat MP for Lewes, East Sussex, is outraged at plans to decorate the courtyard inside the new Portcullis building, in Westminster,with 12 fig trees.