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.
Plans for the commercial redevelopment of London’s Smithfield Market have met with opposition from a conservation group. Save Britain’s Heritage say the proposal to create 235,000 sq ft of offices, shops and restaurants on the site will destroy “the... Read More
London Mayor Boris Johnson has approved a controversial development that will involve the partial demolition of a historic Spitalfields building. The mayor made the decision despite the fact that Tower Hamlets council has twice rejected the application which... Read More
A £2 billion theme park on the scale of Disneyland Paris is expected to create more than 27,000 jobs in Kent. The huge development is on an 872 acre plot of brownfield land between Dartford and Gravesend and is provisionally scheduled to open in... Read More
In August Movehut reported that the future of seven commercial art galleries on Mayfair’s Cork Street was under threat from developers. Now it has emerged that a further four face being forced out by plans to redevelop a site on the opposite side of the... Read More
Hundreds of new jobs will be created on the South Coast thanks to a £25 million investment in the Solent Enterprise Zone. This was announced last week by Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary. The investment will help unlock the area’s... Read More
Premier Inn, one of the UK’s largest hotel chains is adding a number of new commercial properties in the South West region. 15 sites have been secured by the hotel chain and already nine hotels have begun construction.... Read More
The Trafford Centre in Manchester is one of the largest shopping centres in the country. But soon a bit of retail therapy will not be on the only thing that people will be visiting for.... Read More
A Waitrose store was officially opened last week by the town’s local Mayor, which has created 152 jobs for local people.... Read More
In the past few years, supermarkets have had to become more and more inventive in order to draw customers into their stores.... Read More
Property developer Hammerson, which owns Birmingham’s Bullring and London’s Brent Cross, is forging ahead with new shopping centres in the UK and France.... 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.
