All Property Week articles in 30 May 2008
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Kier’s head of residential resigns
Kier group’s executive director in charge of housing has resigned from the company.
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Capital & Regional delays fund-raising meeting by a fortnight
Capital & Regional has delayed a meeting with its unitholders over the £286m fund raising for its Mall Unit Trust by two weeks.
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Bellway predicts sales drops of up to 15%
Housebuilder Bellway is expecting its sales to have dropped by up to 15%, it announced to the stock exchange today.
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Ice rink for Widnes
Ice rink operator Planet Ice has signed up at St Modwen’s leisure scheme in Widnes, Cheshire.
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Boris will bring back sight lines to protect historic views
Boris Johnson has called for a return to the ‘sight lines’ set out in 1991 as a way of preserving London’s views.
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Liverpool objects to Kirkby Tesco
Liverpool City Council’s planning committee this morning objected to Everton Football Club and Tesco’s £400m Kirkby scheme in Knowsley near Liverpool.
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Lend Lease starts building Olympic Village
Construction work has started on the Olympic Village, Lend Lease and the Olympic Delivery Authority announced today.
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Persimmon facing £3m High Court case over Birmingham development site
Housebuilder Persimmon is being sued for allegedly not paying a ‘finder’s fee’ and other sums after it bought an NCP car park in Birmingham for a mixed use development.
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Welsh Assembly plans 100-acre regeneration scheme
The Welsh Assembly is drawing up plans for a major mixed-use scheme on a 100 acre former steelworks plant and sidings site in South Wales to kickstart the regeneration of the run-down area.
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Development Securities starts on site in City
Development Securities has started construction of its 10 St Bride Street development in the City of London in joint venture with funding partner, Corpus Sireo.
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Industrial investment down 55%, DJ says
The total value of industrial investment deals completed in the first quarter of 2008 is down by 55% on last year’s figures, according to research by Drivers Jonas.
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PIK to make St Petersburg debut
Russia’s largest housebuilder PIK is in advanced discussions to buy its first development site in St Petersburg.
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Slade’s super-maxi yacht smashes transatlantic speed record
ICAP Leopard, the 100 foot super-maxi yacht owned by Mike Slade, last night broke the transatlantic speed record held by luxury yacht Phocea.
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Hamleys goes to Ireland for first store outside London
Hamleys, the toy shop owned by Baugur, is to open its first stand-alone European store in Dundrum town centre, Ireland.
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Newham invites developers for £1.4bn East London development
The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation and the London Borough of Newham has relaunched its search for bidders to develop a £1bn project next to the Olympics site.
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M4 corridor lit up by Luminaire letting
Pharmaceuticals group Steifel has taken 49,000 sq ft at Luminaire in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
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McGivern joins AIM-listed resort developer
Jayne McGivern, the former chief executive of Multiplex's UK arm, has taken over as head of a small AIM-listed resort developer.
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Planning bill back next week
Proposals for a major shake-up of the planning process came under fire from MPs on all sides of the Commons yesterday as it was adjourned until next week.
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JLL moves in Manchester
Jones Lang LaSalle is expanding and moving its Manchester office to new development, Chancery Place, in the city.
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Aberdeen head of UK property leaves
Glenn Newson, head of UK property at Aberdeen Property Investors, has left following the firm’s acquisition of Goodman Property Investors.