Industrial
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Sheds planned on Berkshire hotel site
Wharf Lane, the private company run by Douglas Maggs, is working up plans for a 400,000 sq ft shed scheme in Berkshire after buying a site from Persimmon Homes.
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Trade parks purchase takes C&R into industrial
Retail fund manager Capital & Regional emerged this week as the surprise purchaser of a national portfolio of trade parks. In its first foray into the quasi-industrial market, C&R is…
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Rosemound submits plans for £175m Derby park
Rosemound has submitted a planning application for a £175m business park in Derby. The 180-acre New Raynesway scheme could provide up to 2m sq ft of commercial space offices, industrial…
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Liberty signs another for Swansea’s Matrix Park
Liberty Properties has signed clinical development firm PRA International to a speculative 15,000 sq ft office building at the £30m Matrix Business Park, Swansea.
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Liverpool Victoria buys Tamworth warehouse
Liverpool Victoria Asset Management, acting on behalf of its Staff Pension Scheme, has acquired a distribution warehouse at Relay Park, Tamworth for £3.8m.
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Luton airport announces plans for expansion
Luton Airport is to submit planning applications for a replacement runway and a new terminal. The Bedfordshire airport intends to submit the proposals in late 2006/early 2007 with the aim…
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SEFV wraps up tinfoil factory purchase
Development agency Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley (SEFV) has paid tinfoil manufacturer Novelis £4m for a 35-acre site in Falkirk. The 425,000 sq ft factory on the site will be demolished.
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Midlands sees 400,000 sq ft of shed deals this week
The Midlands saw 400,000 sq ft of shed space taken up this week. Peugeot logistics subsidiary Gefco has taken the last major shed at ProLogis Park, Coventry.
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Citygrove unloads three to fuel development drive
Trader developer Citygrove has completed a trio of sales raising close to £40m to fuel a development and investment drive. It sold a retail warehouse let to Wickes in Maidstone…
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Morley forward-funds warehouse buy in Leicester
Morley Property Investment Fund has forward-funded the purchase of a 156,000 sq ft distribution warehouse at Grove Park in Leicester. The warehouse, being built by Grove Park Commercial, has an…
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Pro Logis lets 500,000 sq ft at Spanish park
Distribution specialist ProLogis has let a total of 500,000 sq ft of industrial space to four customers at ProLogis Park Alcala, near Madrid, Spain.
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WDA completes 113-acre land deal in north Wales
The Welsh Development Agency (WDA) has completed one of the UK’s largest land deals. It has bought a 113-acre (51.40ha) site at Holyhead from industrial company Anglesey Aluminium for a…