Wales
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Kyle Stewart gets green light for 100,000 sq ft shopping centre in MerthyrTydfil, South Wales
Kyle Stewart and Swansea-based developer Sylfaen have won planning consent for a 9,300 sq m (100,000 sq ft) shopping centre development in the South Wales town of Merthyr Tydfil.
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Compulsory purchase order imposed on Sker House, south Wales
Bridgend council has imposed a compulsory purchase order on Sker House, in south Glamorgan. This enables the Buildings at Risk Trust to acquire the freehold of the crumbling house and…
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Estates & General sells retail centre in Newport, Gwent, for over £3.5m
Estates & General has sold the Cambrian Retail Centre in Newport, Gwent, for £3.54m. The sale price reflects a yield of 8%.
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Local brewer tipped to be first tenant in Cardiff Bay retail and leisure scheme
Local brewer S A Brain has been tipped as the first licensed leisure occupier in a new £20m retail and leisure scheme at the Oval Basin in Cardiff Bay’s Inner…
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Occupiers queue up for WDA’s 650 acre industrial park at Port Talbot, South Wales
The Welsh Development Agency is in negotiation with potential automotive, chemical and hi-tech industry occupiers for its £230m Industrial Park at Baglan Bay in Port Talbot.
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Virgin plans screen presence
Virgin Cinema is using a doubling of its profits to £34.5m to increase its screen presence. The company confirmed 20 new multiplexes before 2000.
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Developer Brunswick signs up for £93m Newport regeneration plan
A regeneration initiative for Newport in south Wales – which hopes to attract £93m of public and private sector funds – has signed up its first private developer for a…
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Tarmac Richardson signs up Allied Domecq for Cardiff Bay leisure complex
Tarmac Richardson is understood to have signed up Allied Domecq as operator of a 2,043 sq m (22,000 sq ft) nightclub at its £30m Atlantic Wharf leisure complex in Cardiff…
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Government to transfer £2.5bn of social care provision to private sector
The government yesterday announced plans to privatise local authorities’ residential and domiciliary care for adults. This would eventually shift £2.5bn a year of council run services to private and voluntary…
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WAGN wants to cut commuter train services
West Anglia & Great Northern Railway (WAGN) has announced plans to cut peak time commuter trains by a third. WAGN runs services in Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Essex.
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Valeo plant, at Gorseinon, South Wales, to get £14m extension
The Welsh Development Agency will help build a 3,252 sq m (35,000 sq ft) extension to Valeo’s Gorseinon plant, in South Wales.
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SA Brain in Welsh brewery merger
SA Brain is taking over another privately owned Welsh brewer in a deal which will create an estate of 165 pubs.