An area of Birmingham city centre is set to undergo a huge redevelopment programme thanks to HS2. The regeneration will accompany the construction of the high speed rail station at Curzon Street and will include 600,000 square metres of business... Read More
Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking has signed a five year financing deal with Dransfield Properties to allow it to complete the final stage of a Manchester shopping complex upgrade. An 80,000 sq ft Morrisons store will anchor the Lime Square... Read More
Council leaders in Stoke-on-Trent are seeking an additional £47m to fund the ongoing regeneration of the city. The proposed borrowing will contribute to improvements to highways, the Etruria Valley development and a new central business district (CBD)... Read More
Although Crossrail won’t arrive in Southall for five years, plans for the regeneration of the west London suburb are underway and open for consultation. A draft document, the Southall Opportunity Area Planning Framework (SOAPF), sets out a vision... 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
London’s Elephant & Castle shopping centre has been purchased by developer Delancey for a sum of £80 million. The firm intends to transform the 1960s concrete mall as part of its South Village scheme, with the property, once described as an... Read More
Reviving Britain’s ailing town centres will need radical action and planning, according to a new report. The Distressed Town Centre Property Taskforce — set up after retail guru Mary Portas's review of the High Street — claims the scale of the... Read More
Since 2008, the number of charity shops on the nation’s high streets has swelled by 30 per cent, with more than 10,000 retail properties now dedicated to fundraising for organisations such as Cancer Research UK, the British Heart Foundation and Oxfam.... Read More
As many as 1,000 new jobs would be created if Amazon is given the go-ahead for a million square foot Merseyside distribution centre. The application, formally lodged by Gallan Stoford on behalf of the internet shopping giant, is for a 22-hectare... Read More
Once famous for showering the surrounding countryside with its “red rain”, Consett Steel Works dominated the landscape with the glow from its furnaces visible for more than 20 miles. Now a multi-million pound scheme has transformed the site into one of... Read More
