All Property Week articles in 29 July 2005

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  • Online

    Akeler secures prelet in Sunderland

    2005-07-29T09:34:00Z

    Akeler and Sunderland City Council are in advanced negotiations to secure a 400,000 sq ft (37,160 sq m) office prelet with financial services company Northern Rock at Rainton Bridge.

  • Online

    Reit finalises Boots sale and leaseback

    2005-07-29T08:51:00Z

    Reit Asset Management has completed its £298m, 15-year sale and leaseback with Boots, it emerged today.

  • News

    Wales

    29 July 2005

  • News

    Sheffield says YES to Rotherha

    29 July 2005

    Sheffield City Council has had a change of heart on its opposition to plans to block Oak Holdings’ £300m leisure scheme in Rotherham.

  • News

    Planning

    29 July 2005

  • Insight

    Private and public places in words and pictures

    29 July 2005

    At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, a new approach to gardening developed that remains to this day. It is the basis for most gardens and landscapes in the temperate world. The men and women responsible were rebelling against the authoritarian, rigid designs of ...

  • Markets

    Small packages

    29 July 2005

    Moseley & Webb split from Jones Lang LaSalle to set up a small planning practice.

  • Run of the mill: the redevelopment features the anchor motif throughout the building in reference to its previous incarnation
    Markets

    A new pattern for Paisley

    29 July 2005

    Once the epicentre of the global cotton industry, Paisley has struggled to reinvent itself as a 21st-century business location.

  • Insight

    Networkers

    29 July 2005

    Fletcher Morgan was formed in 1976. It is a specialist firm of commercial surveyors in Cardiff.

  • Net loss: Queen’s club, which plays host to the Stella Artois tournament, could be sold off by the Lawn Tennis Association
    Professional

    Match point

    29 July 2005

    John Ritblat and the illustrious membership of west London’s Queen’s Club are striving to stop the Lawn Tennis Association’s plans to sell it.

  • Adding up: BPU has moved to Cardiff Gate
    Markets

    The market in minutes

    29 July 2005

    Christine Eade gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region

  • Insight

    Vision on for Liverpool

    29 July 2005

    Sir, Despite providing a clear explanation of the distinct roles and partnership structure that is in place to maintain the rapid regeneration of Liverpool, you failed to provide a balanced or accurate description of the rationale for arrangements (north-west, 15.07.05, p105).

  • Unhappy shoppers: it is feared that shoppers will find it difficult to move around Liverpool without the tram
    Professional

    Liverpool loses track

    29 July 2005

    Liverpool’s tram project is £90m over budget, and the government may withdraw its £170m funding. Could a private sector leasing deal provide the answer? Mark Shepherd reports

  • Markets

    Talking the same language

    29 July 2005

    Landlords may be sceptical, but the Welsh Assembly is pressing ahead with plans for compulsory bilingual documentation.

  • Brutal departure: in just one week, three manufacturers left Bridgend Industrial Estate leaving many unemployed
    Markets

    Triple jump

    29 July 2005

    Bridgend has been left reeling after three large occupiers closed manufacturing operations. Christine Eade reports

  • News

    RE: Joyce

    29 July 2005

    London estate agent Copping Joyce may not be selling too many houses but its football team reigns supreme.

  • Flat pack: B&Q has submitted plans for 51 flats next door to a 198,326 sq ft retail warehouse in New Malden, south London
    Markets

    It’s the talk of the town

    29 July 2005

    The government’s ‘town centre first’ policy will soon extend to property in the office and leisure sectors. David Blackman reports on the feasibility of the plan to revive the UK’s city centres

  • Insight

    The struggles to put our houses in order

    29 July 2005

    Readers in the worlds of residential, regeneration and mixed use will have been following the continuing struggles of the housing market this year in our Development section.

  • Insight

    Rent protests ring hollow

    29 July 2005

    Sir, Despite Martin Meech’s protestations at rent increases, a company looking to acquire premises can choose whether to sign a lease and pay the rent (news, 22.07.05 p4; retail: out of town, p84)

  • News

    High life

    29 July 2005

    220 flats in the Southwark sky