MORNING NEWS: London offices, luxury hotels and open data

In the news this morning, Nick Weber’s Henderson Park has made its latest splash in the London offices market. Click here for more from EG. Also from EG, Queensgate Investment has plans for a new luxury hotel in SW7. The proposals involve the demolition of the fifth-largest hotel in the UK. Click here for all the details. And finally, find out what open data is, how it fits in with other categories of data, why it is available and – most importantly – what businesses can do with it. NEWS ROUND-UP: Meet the new housing minister Henderson Park in £94m West End buy Open data: What is it and how do you use it for business? Queensgate Investments submits new plan for Kensington Forum Hotel Big pub companies are ‘gaming system and bullying tenants’ World Cup is win-win for retailers Bank of England ‘should be able to freeze house prices’ Mothercare to shut 60 stores after raising £32m for turnaround plan Ei Group poised to sell £300m property business One in six has faced business rate summons