West Midlands
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West Midlands: Objectors plan legal challenge to Peddimore development
Campaigners are preparing a legal challenge to the Government’s decision to over-rule the planning inspector’s recommendations and grant planning consent for development of 132-acres of green belt at Peddimore, Sutton…
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WS Atkins takes 35,000 sq ft of offices in Birmingham
WS Atkins has expanded into 3,251 sq m (35,000 sq ft) offices at Auchinleck House in Edgbaston, Birmingham. The engineering and property consultancy will occupy the 5th, 6th, 8th and…
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Greenalls sells Coventry hotel for £6m
Greenalls has sold the 190-bedroom De Vere Hotel in Coventry for £6m. The buyer is Britannia Hotels. The 4-star hotel was one of four non-core hotels put up for sale…
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Telford sees largest speculative deal in five years
South Staffordshire Enterprises has taken the 4,936 sq m (53,142 sq ft) Axiom factory and office building at Stafford Park, Telford, in the town’s largest speculative letting in five years.
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St Modwen sells second phase of Orbital Retail Park, Cannock, for £4.7m
St Modwen Developments has sold the second phase of the Orbital Retail Park in Cannock, Staffordshire, for £4.725m to an investment subsidiary of Commercial Union.
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Oracle to occupy 400,000 sq ft of offices in West Midlands
Software giant Oracle has indentified Blythe Valley park at junction 4 of the M42 outside Birmingham as the site for its new 37,160 sq m (400,000 sq ft) offices.
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Birmingham NEC spreads its wings
The National Exhibition Centre, the Birmingham convention venue, isspending £65m on a new wing. NEC Group, which runs the publicly owned centre, is joining forceswith publisher Emap on the venture.
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Richardsons secure first occupier at Telford Plaza
In one of the biggest lettings in the town for two years, Oxford-based call centre operator Freepages is taking 2,278 sq m (24,526 sq ft) as the first occupier in…
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Barclays to extend Coventry’s Sapphire Court to 66,000 sq ft in advance of letting
Barclay Property Holdings is to extend Sapphire Court in Coventry to 6,170 sq m (66,423 sq ft) in advance of a deal with German pharmacutical giant AAH which wants the…
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Taylor Clark sells Aqueous building in Birmingham for £4.225m
Taylor Clark has sold Building One, the 2,239 sq m (24,000 sq ft) first phase of the Aqueous office development in Birmingham, for £4.225m to clients of Hill Samuel at…
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TBI abandons Coventry Airport bid
Property group TBI has dropped plans to buy Coventry Airport from Coventry City Council after 18 months of talks. TBI was not prepared to make the level of investment required…
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TBI believed to be about to quit Coventry Airport deal
TBI, the property and airports company, is said to be on the verge of pulling out of talks to buy Coventry Airport which could jeopardise Parcelforce’s proposed £100m distribution centre…