Yorkshire & Humber
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Proposal to list Sheffield estate causes mirth among residents
Proposals by English Heritage to grant the 1950s Park Hill estate, Sheffield, listed status have caused disbelief and mirth among residents.
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Tenants secured on 90% of Westgate Retail Park in Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Waverley Square Developments has secured prelets on 90% of the 13,000 sq m (140,000 sq ft) Westgate Retail Park in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
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Allders to invest in improving new department stores acquisition
Allders’ £160m sale of its duty-free shops business has left it with net cash of about £100m. Another £18m is being spent on the Owen Owen and Lewis’s department stores…
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Millennium Chemicals retains office near Grimsby
Millennium Chemicals is to keep its premises open in Stallingborough near Grimsby as the British executive office. It has a titanium dioxide plant there.
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Hickson & Welch wins £1.5m regional aid towards new plant
The Department of Trade and Industry has awarded Hickson & Welch a £1.5m regional selective assistance grant. The company plans to expand its chemicals manufacturing business at its Castleford site…
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Principal Hotels set for £100m
Principal Hotels, the Harrogate-base provincial hotelier, looks set tobecome the latest in a growing line of hotel groups to check into the stockmarket this year.
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Lipton wins contract to refurbish Whitehall
A £200m contract to develop and refurbish the Treasury in London’s Whitehall has been won by the Exchequer building consortium led by property tycoon Stuart Lipton.
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£40m leisure scheme in Bradford gets green light
Argent Group and J F Finnegan have won detailed planning consent for a £40m leisure scheme in Bradford, West Yorkshire. A 24-screen cinema operated by AMC will anchor the 25,547sq…
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Government to announce shortlist of bidders for 700 DSS offices
The government will this week announced a shortlist of six bidders to enable The Department of Social Security (DSS) to transfer 700 offices to the private sector under the Private…
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Environment Secretary rejects proposals for 13.9ha business park near Knaresborough, north Yorkshire
Environment Secretary John Gummer has refused outline planning consent for a business park on a 13.9ha (150 acre) site next to Flaxby Covert on the A59/A1 near Knaresborough in north…
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Abbey National gets go-ahead for 23,000 sq m HQ in Bradford
Bradford Council has granted planning consent for a 23,000 sq m (247,578 sq ft) Abbey National building at Bradford Interchange in the city centre.
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Abbey National plans 13,935sq m office building in Bradford
Abbey National is planning a 13,935sq m (150,000sq ft) office building for its own occupation in Bradford. This follows its merger with Bradford-based National & Provincial Building Society, which took…