All Property Week articles in 21 February 2003
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British Land shares climb after new Laxey proposals
Shares in British Land rose more than 5% to 426p this morning after dissident shareholder Laxey Partners launched a bid to break up the property company.
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Hammerson buys retail park development
Hammerson has bought a £17m industrial estate in Kent to redevelop as a retail warehouse park.
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OnlineArab royals plan new Canary Wharf tower
A new mixed-use tower is to be built near Canary Wharf, providing more than 1m sq ft (92,900 sq m) of offices, retail and leisure space.
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Sainsbury’s to sell development arm
Sainsbury’s today revealed it hopes to sell its property development arm J Sainsbury Developments in order to focus on core activities.
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Bullring signs up five new tenants
Birmingham's Bullring today announced that five high-profile health and beauty retailers will take up space at the scheme when it opens in September.
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Hammerson achieves 3% NAV growth
Hammerson today revealed a 3% increase in its net asset value per share despite a drop in the value of its property portfolio.
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Colliers completes Gooch Webster acquisition
Fitzhardinge, the parent company of Colliers CRE, this morning confirmed that it has bought rival firm Gooch Webster for £8m.
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OnlineGreen light for Dover regeneration
Plans to redevelop a 290 acre (117 ha) former colliery in Kent were today given the go-ahead by Dover District Council.
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Leeds plans £100m culture spend
The city of Leeds today announced plans to spend more than £100m on cultural buildings and leisure facilities in the next five years.
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MarketsRetail: Sex sells
Designer dildos, pearl thongs and savvy businesswomen are the epitome of upmarket sex retailers – and the landlords are loving it.
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MarketsRegeneration: What's in store for Wycombe
It's been a rocky road, but at last the pretty Buckinghamshire town looks set to get its first department store as part of Stannifer's mixed-use development proposals.
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Pillar sale
Pillar Property is selling a £130m package of retail parks from the Hercules Unit Trust it owns 46% of. FPDSavills is advising.
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Parliament watch
Community involvement New legislation, now approved by the European parliament, will give the public a greater role in planning permission decisions, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and pollution control rules affecting, for example, new airport terminals and, in some cases, military projects and civil emergency measures.The new directive will ensure that ...
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MarketsOffices: Stately procession
Capability Green, next to Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire, is ready to put an unhappy past behind it now that the site has one site left to be developed.
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Offices: Waiting in vain
The redevelopment of a brutalist 1960s building on Oxford's fringe has been planned since 1994. The owner needs newer offices, yet the project is no closer to becoming reality.
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Norris to stand for mayor
Former transport minister and Property Week columnist Steven Norris was this week chosen as the Conservative candidate for mayor of London.
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MarketsLeisure: Pub swizz
The government's licensing reforms have little to do with 24-hour drinking, as leisure operators are about to find out.
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Industrial & offices: Milton keen
Plenty of speculative industrial developments are in the pipeline, but there is a lack of offices coming to the market.
