West Midlands
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Arlington secures first tenant at Birmingham Business Park new phase
Arlington has secured the first tenant at its Bishop Court development, the latest phase of the developers’ Birmingham Business Park close to the M42.
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Estates & General sells Telford office for £3.3m
Estates & General has sold an office in Telford to a private investor for £4.325m. The deal represents an initial yield of 6.75%.
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Rover looks for Government cash to save Longbridge
Rover may ask the Government to provide £450m to help it launch two new models and save its closure-threatened Longbridge plant.
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Dairy Crest buys land for 300,000 sq ft distribution unit at Bermuda Park
Dairy Crest is understood to have bought 16 acres at Bermuda Park in Nuneaton – one of the West Midlands’ largest distribution deals this year.
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Birmingham private toll road gets go-ahead
Campaigners have lost their claim that the government acted unlawfully in giving the go-ahead for the £700m Birmingham Northern Relief Road.
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Threat of closure hangs over Rover Longbridge plant
The launch of the Rover 75 car was overshadowed when the company warned unions that, unless radical changes in working practices were accepted, the Longbridge car factory in Birmingham would…
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Opponents to fight on as Birmingham relief road gets go-ahead
Protesters challenging the £700m Birmingham Northern Relief Road today failed to convince the High Court that consent for the road is unlawful.
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Birmingham Mailbox gets final go-ahead for £50m mixed-use scheme
Birmingham Mailbox – the £50m mixed-use development on the site of the former Royal Mail Sorting Office in the city centre – has got the final go-ahead and work is…
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Coventry City FC to locate to gasworks site
Coventry City is trying to relocate to a £100m development on a former gaswork site in north Coventry which will include a £65m stadium and a (30 acre) retail and…
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Conoco seeks sale-and-leaseback on Warwick HQ
Oil company Conoco has instructed CB Hillier Parker to seek a sale-and-leaseback of its headquarters at Warwick Technology Park for £37.5m.
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Dudley council threatens to tax parking at Merry Hill
Dudley council in the West Midlands is seeking to levy car parking charges on greenfield shopping sites in order to ease congestion and attract shoppers back to town centres.
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Exclusive: Direct Line close to taking 60,000 sq ft prelet in Birmingham
Direct Line is tipped to take a prelet at Miller Developments’ Snow Hill House scheme in Birmingham city centre. The insurance company has a longstanding requirement for 5,574 sq m…