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.
Scotland Yard — the backdrop to thousands of crime stories and hundreds of film and television mysteries — is being converted into a £10,000-a-night luxury hotel. The Grade II listed former headquarters of the Metropolitan Police is one of a... Read More
London landlord Capital and Counties has received permission for another important phase in its overhaul of Covent Garden. The new public courtyard and the transformation the Carriage Hall building on Floral Street will now go ahead. The firm, which... Read More
IM PROPERTIES has completed the pre-let of a 50,000sq ft customer delivery hub at Solihull Business Park to retailer John Lewis. The new West Midland’s facility — expected to create at least 100 jobs — is the first of John Lewis’s new customer... Read More
Kier Property has been awarded a £50m contract to build prestige offices within Northampton’s Waterside Enterprise Zone. The 215,000sq ft business development is on a five-acre brown field site at St Peter’s Waterside between the River Nene and St... Read More
Southwark Council and property group Lend Lease have announced they will be teaming up for an ambitious plan which they hope will attract 60 creative start-ups to London’s Elephant and Castle. The site, which is presently undergoing redevelopment,... Read More
As the development drought eases one town has found itself facing a different kind of shortage — a serious lack of industrial property and warehouse space. “Driven by strong levels of investment, take-up of space has risen and there is now a... Read More
Queens Park Rangers Football Club has unveiled plans for a new 40,000 capacity stadium at the heart of what promises to be “one of the best new urban places in the world." The mixed use development, in the Old Oak area of West London, will create a... Read More
As London continues to grow in popularity as both a residential and business investment hub for multinational companies, developers have begun to realise the value of creating spaces in which both homes and commercial properties can co-exist. As a result,... Read More
Two speculative projects are underway in Bristol after five years of zero-growth in the commercial market. Work has now started at 2 Glass Wharf on a joint development for Salmon Harvester and NFU Mutual. The Swedish-based Skanska group also has an... Read More
Manufacturing has once more become one of Britain’s largest sources of income, with the industry behind only the services sector in terms of growth and employment. This has led some of the country’s largest manufacturers to seek rapid expansion in order... 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.
