Industrial
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Opus Land plans £45m industrial/hotel scheme
Opus Land is to speculatively develop a £45m industrial scheme in Wednesbury, Birmingham. Located near J9 of the M6, the development spans 25 acres and will offer 450,000 sq ft…
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Slough plans £20m B’ham industrial scheme
Slough Estates has revealed its plans for a £20m speculative industrial development in Birmingham. The developer will build a 235,000 sq ft shed on the 10.5-acre former Delta manufacturing site…
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Amec announces restructuring plans to tackle debt
Amec announced major restructuring plans this morning in a bid to tackle high debt levels and underperforming units. In a stock market announcement the UK-based developer, engineering, design and energy…
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Westbury completes Bristol sale and leaseback deal
Westbury Properties has completed a £3.95m sale and leaseback of Lane Group’s 38,000 sq ft distribution building and 7.6 acres at Portbury, Bristol.
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Morley secures freight link for Wigan scheme
Morley Estates is to secure an operational rail freight connection for its recently acquired 230,000 sq ft warehouse unit in Golborne, Wigan.
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UK Land Estates gets go-ahead for Sunderland scheme
UK Land Estates has gained planning permission for 10 office/industrial units in Sunderland. The units will range from 2,979 sq ft to 4,035 sq ft and will have 86 car…
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English Partnerships’ Higgins appointed Olympic construction chief
English Partnerships chief David Higgins has been appointed chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the body tasked with building key venues, facilities and infrastructure for the 2012 Games.
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St Modwen submits plans for £60m Liverpool scheme
St Modwen Properties has submitted a planning application for the £60m Great Homer Street district centre in Liverpool. The developer had already signed a development agreement with the council for…
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Airbus to get go-ahead for Gloucestershire scheme
Airbus is due to be given the go-ahead for one of the UK’s largest ever commercial schemes this week. South Gloucestershire planners are being recommended to back the firm’s £300m…
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David Samuel Property completes Wrexham deal
Manchester-based family trust David Samuel Property Holdings has completed the £2.75m sale and leaseback of the 75,000 sq ft Calypso Soft Drinks building at Wrexham, north Wales.
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Norwich park attracts new occupier
Lothbury Property Trust has attracted another major Norwich city-centre occupier to its 80-acre out-of-town Broadland Business Park. Household repairs group Homeserve Emergency Services has taken a prelet of a 30,000…
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St Modwen draws up plans for Brum sheds
St Modwen is drawing up plans for a 1m sq ft distribution park in the heart of Birmingham, replacing a factory that once produced hundreds of London’s Tube trains.