In the Commercial Developments category you can read about UK commercial property either in the planning stage, under construction or newly completed. This includes reports on office and serviced office space, retail developments and much more.
Belfast’s Windsor House office block — one of the tallest buildings in Ireland — has been acquired by Hastings Hotels. The leisure group paid £6.5m for the 23-storey complex and will submit conversion plans within weeks. The 122,557sq ft... Read More
South African firm Artisan Real Estate has this week confirmed that Edinburgh’s Victorian arches are to be converted into a retail and leisure quarter in the latest phase of the redevelopment of the city’s Old Town. The arches, which were... Read More
According to DTZ, speculative development of industrial space over 50,000 sq ft, expanded outside the M1/M6/M25 corridors the first time since development recommenced towards the end of 2013. Two units totalling 138,000 sq ft in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire... Read More
Lend Lease (LL) says it will start work later this month on the first office building for its planned new East London International Quarter. The confirmation came less than 24 hours after the company and its joint venture partner Continental Railways (LCR)... Read More
Stoford, the privately owned development company, has amassed a project pipeline of 18 commercial and industrial warehouse schemes totalling more than 10-million sq ft. If laid side by side the sites would cover 700 acres. The Birmingham-headquartered... Read More
Two key elements for the regeneration of Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge district have received approval. Work on the Freer Street site, west of the city centre, is expected to begin by the autumn. The first scheme to get underway — as part of the City... Read More
A first time property developer has seen his £725,000 investment in a Grade II listed building pay its initial dividend with the letting of more than half of its newly created office space. Yorkshire businessman, Andrew Clark, paid £325,000 for... Read More
Westminster Council is poised to order a property developer to rebuild a London pub brick-by-brick after it was torn down without notice last month. Bulldozers reduced the Carlton Tavern in Maida Vale to rubble on April 8 without submitting an... Read More
The last remnants of Sheffield City Airport would be swept away if the city’s university is granted permission to build a second advanced manufacturing campus on the site. Flying ended at the airport in 2008 and part of the site now houses Sheffield... Read More
Transport for London (TfL) is seeking a partner with innovative ideas to transform Down Street Tube station into a commercially viable business. Down Street, located on a residential street off Piccadilly, is one of seven disused stations recently... Read More
Over recent years urban regeneration projects throughout the UK have resulted in a huge expansion of commercial property developments. Many of these are ongoing and will continue to deliver new business space in the future.
In addition many towns and cities have seen an expansion of out-of-town projects resulting in new business parks, shopping centres and leisure developments.
You will find stories about all of these here together with news regarding new industrial, healthcare and warehouse property. So if you want to read about the latest Grade A office space in London’s financial district or improvements to Sheffield’s retail quarter, the Commercial Development category is for you.
