All Property Week articles in 16 April 2004
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Egan urges councils to put planning first
Sir John Egan, the government advisor on sustainable communities, today urged local authorities to put planning at the top of their agenda.
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Canary Wharf recommends Morgan Stanley bid
The independent committee of Canary Wharf Group announced this morning that it would recommend the 295p-a-share offer made for the group last week by the Morgan Stanley-led consortium.
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Morgan Stanley set to win Canary Wharf
Morgan Stanley's consortium looks set to win the 10-month take over battle for Canary Wharf Group.
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Town-centre shop demand crashes
Demand for town centre shops has slumped with 15% fewer retailers wanting to take up space.
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Bruntwood ties up prize Manchester letting
Bruntwood, the northern England property developer, today completed the biggest office letting deal in Manchester so far this year.
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Markets
Talk of the towns
The government marketing people have been out in force in the region. Cambridge’s status as centre of hi-tech excellence, they believe, should rub off on surrounding towns. Hence Milton Keynes’ label as ‘the centre of the Oxford-Cambridge area’ and ‘hi-tech Bedford’ appearing in various local authority documents. ‘It’s a figment ...
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Talk of the towns
Earlier this year, we remarked upon the gruesome discovery of mutilated skeletons at Osborne Group’s £35m mixed-use Oxford Castle scheme. The site was blessed last month by the Bishop of Oxford, the Right Reverend Richard Harries, so it is to be hoped that the ghosts of the departed will be ...
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NTL in property rethink
Cable company NTL has ordered a complete review of its UK property holdings as part of plans to cut a third of its call centre staff. NTL announced late last week that it was cutting 1,500 jobs and closing call centres in Belfast, Brighton, Cambridge, Winnersh near Reading, and Glasgow. ...
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Top performer St Modwen keeps rising
Regeneration specialist St Modwen was last week’s best-performing property share, as the company maintained its strongest-ever financial position. Its shares rose 6% to 317.25p. In the first quarter of this year, it topped Property Week’s share performance league, in joint first position with Savills and London & Associated ...
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Professional
Inside parliament
Re-localising ratesGrowing public disquiet about the scale of Council Tax increases prompted the government to set up a Balance of Funding Review to examine how local government should be funded. But business groups fear that control of business rates could be returned to local authorities. The RICS has put its ...
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Milton Keynes housebuilding plan launched
Radical plans to deliver 133,000 homes in Milton Keynes by 2016 have been published. Planning applications are to be ‘fast-tracked’ by a new Milton Keynes Partnership Committee, comprising Milton Keynes Council, English Partnerships and other local partners. The plans can be viewed at www.odpm.gov.uk/urban/consult
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M&S slices top off headquarters plans
Marks & Spencer has been forced to cut a floor from the £300m redevelopment of its Baker Street headquarters, one of the largest developments planned in the capital. The retailer, which is moving to Paddington, has been forced to make the change to Michael House after Westminster City ...
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Location guide to … Royal Leamington Spa
Where : The largest town within Warwick District, Leamington Spa is nine miles south of Coventry and 24 miles south-east of Birmingham. The nearest motorway connection is junction 14 of the M40 and Birmingham Airport is around 15 miles away. Chiltern Railways runs trains at least once an hour to ...
