All Property Week articles in 9 May 2003
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Online
Sacked Chesterton chiefs hit back
Sacked Chesterton chiefs Neil List and Mike Backs today told shareholders that Jafari-Fini's £10m takeover bid undervalued the company.
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Small schemes are big hit at RICS Awards
Large-budget, high profile developments were squeezed out of the running last night when smaller schemes swept the board at the RICS Awards.
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Trent submits plans for Folkestone urban quarter
Urban regeneration company Trent Developments has submitted a detailed planning application for an 850,000 sq ft (78,997 sq m) urban quarter at Folkestone.
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Thames Gateway bridge plan revealed
Proposals for a new £425m Thames Gateway road-bridge will be put out to public consultation today.
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Tchenguiz continues fight for Selfridges
The race for Selfridges is still on after a rival consortium to Canadian billionaire Galen Weston said it was plotting an offer for the department store group.
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Weston captures £598m Selfridges
Selfridges today announced that it has agreed to a £598m takeover bid from Canadian billionaire Galen Weston.
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Kennet’s High Wycombe go-ahead
Kennet Properties, the property subsidiary of Thames Water, has been given the green light for the £50m development of High Wycombe's largest retail park.
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Somerfield focuses on property
Somerfield, the supermarket group being stalked by two retail entrepreneurs, kept the focus on its property today while it revealed rising sales in a trading update.
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Professional
Who's suing whom
Bank sues over advice Bank Restaurant Group issued proceedings on 10 April against solicitor Pinsent Curtis Biddle for damages of £600,000 over advice it received on the acquisition of the Bank and Zander restaurant businesses. The claimant operates restaurants in London and Birmingham. It bought the business for £10.3m and ...
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Insight
A surveyor's place
Sir, Paul Winter of the RICS raised some interesting issues (letters, 17 April).
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The need to unlock value
Sir, At King Sturge my team managed 50% of the Department of Social Security estate under John Mason from 1995-1997.
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RICS move would be mistake
Sir, I share Howard Jenkins' view regarding the retention of the RICS HQ in Parliament Square (letters, 11 April).
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NewsLMS to let Whitfield Street offices
London Merchant Securities ( LMS ) has let its 36,200 sq ft (3,363 sq m) office building at 60 Whitfield Street, London W1, to the Doctors' Laboratory, a subsidiary of an Australian healthcare company. The tenant has taken a 15-year lease at a rent of £1.2m a year. Allsop ...
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Northants and Milton Keynes ponder sell-off
Northamptonshire County Council and Milton Keynes Council are set to become the next local authorities to transfer their estates to a private sector buyer.
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NewsHull's Junction retail park opens
Capital & Regional has opened the first of its revamped Junction retail parks in Hull. The park includes a 'pod' (pictured), which is let to retail and leisure operators and features a climbing wall. Martin Barber, chief executive of Cap&Reg, is considering enlarging pods for future schemes to fit ...
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London's housing target
Sir, Contrary to your article, there is no inconsistency in my call for 50% of homes in the Greenwich Peninsula to be affordable ('Livingstone in row over Dome housing', news, 17 April, p10).
