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BCSC to rally landlords against regional ratings crisis …
24 May 2013
Portas towns in north-west disproportionately hit by a delay in the business rates revaluation until 2017. Simon Donohue reports
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BCSC: Life after the conference
18 September 2012
This year’s BCSC conference was a real success with some 2,600 delegates from across retail property arriving in Liverpool for three days of networking, speaker sessions and access to an unrivalled exhibition of more than 100 companies from the industry.
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Anchors away in Bracknell
14 September 2012
Marks & Spencer and Fenwick to anchor Schroders and L&G scheme
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Celebrity Special: Property Week meets Peter Andre
14 September 2012
Property Week heads down to Brighton to get all the gossip from the launch of Peter Andre’s new coffee shop.
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Pizza Express’s Johnson puts knife in over landlord rows
14 September 2012
Luke Johnson, the entrepreneur behind Pizza Express, gave an impassioned keynote speech at the BCSC conference this week, calling for landlords and tenants to overhaul their relationship to avoid “five more dark and painful years”.
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Portas questions ‘PR stunt’ pilots
14 September 2012
Expert “worried” high streets no longer government priority
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BCSC: CBRE planning reacts to Portas
12 September 2012
Property Week spoke to CBRE’s national retail and planning director, Ian Anderson, at the BCSC 2012 conference to gauge the sector’s mood following Mary Portas’ speech.
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BCSC: Retailers respond to Portas
12 September 2012
Major high street retailers Next and Debenhams say they are committed to town centres, despite a lack of space driving expansion out of town.
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BCSC: Sainsbury's on strategy and the future of retail
12 September 2012
Property Week’s editor-in-chief, Giles Barrie caught up with the property development manager at Sainsbury’s, Philip Bell-Brown during the BCSC 2012 conference.
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BCSC: Councils and BCSC partner up to tackle town centre regeneration
12 September 2012
The BCSC held a meeting with the Local Government Association at the BCSC conference in Liverpool yesterday to discuss new ways of stimulating investment in UK high streets.
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BCSC: Customer service winners crowned
11 September 2012
The top shopping centres for customer service were highlighted this evening at the Achieveing Customer Excellence Awards at the BCSC Conference in Liverpool.
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BCSC: JLL shopping centre boss heads to Hong Kong
11 September 2012
Jones Lang LaSalle’s head of UK shopping centre investment, David Raven, is to take up a new role to expand the company’s investment team in Hong Kong.
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MORNING AFTER: JLL Drinks at BCSC
11 September 2012
On the first night of BCSC, a myriad of faces from the world of retail descended on the JLL welcome party.
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BCSC: "Cameron, back me on out-of-town retail clampdown", says Portas
11 September 2012
Retail guru Mary Portas has written to the Prime Minister to urge him take more action to protect town centres from out of town retail development.
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BCSC: Ten new deals for Whiteley shopping centre
11 September 2012
Developer British Land and Universities Superannuation Scheme have agreed ten new deals at the Whiteley shopping centre development in Hampshire, taking prelets to 78% by rent.
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BCSC: Where will the money needed to boost our high streets come from?
11 September 2012
Today, I will have the pleasure of sitting on a panel during the BCSC Conference alongside Peter Drummond, CEO, BDP and President of BCSC, and Tom Riordan, Chief Executive of Leeds City Council, to discuss whether the UK’s town centres can fight back from the brink.
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BCSC: Luke Johnson calls for an end to "fraudulent" system for rent reviews
11 September 2012
Luke Johnson, the serial entrepreneur, today called for an end to the “fraudulent” system of comparable evidence to determine rent reviews.
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BCSC: Westfield submits plans for Whitgift redevelopment
11 September 2012
Westfield has submitted a planning application for a 1.5m sq ft redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre in Croydon.
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BCSC: Debenhams increases Westfield Bradford store
11 September 2012
Debenhams has signed an agreement to extend its store at Westfield’s proposed Broadway development in Bradford.
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BCSC: RICS to host industry summit on service charge compliance
11 September 2012
The RICS will host an industry summit on service charge compliance in November in reaction to new survey results from RealService.
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BCSC urges more action for high streets in open letter to Prime Minister
11 September 2012
The British Council of Shopping Centres has sent an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron this morning challenging the government to take more concerted action to boost investment on UK high streets.
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BCSC: Thousands descend on Liverpool for conference
11 September 2012
The British Council for Shopping Centres conference kicked off yesterday with 1,600 delegates turning up to the ACC in Liverpool.
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Hammerson agrees £136m Leeds deal
11 September 2012
Hammerson has exchanged contracts to buy the Victoria Quarter in Leeds for £136m, as revealed by Property Week.
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BCSC: Hammerson agrees £136m Victoria Quarter deal
11 September 2012
Hammerson has confirmed its purchase of the Victoria Quarter in Leeds for £136m, as revealed by PropertyWeek.com.
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BCSC: Trinity Leeds opening date revealed
10 September 2012
Land Securities’ 1m sq ft Trinity Leeds shopping centre will open its doors on 21 March 2013.
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IM Properties buys Worcester retail park
10 September 2012
IM Properties, on behalf of Charity Vision, has bought Tybridge Street Retail Park in Worcester from clients of AXA Real Estate for £13.37m, reflecting a net initial yield of 7.9%.
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On the road to BCSC 2012....
10 September 2012
So its Monday 10th September and all roads finally head west to Liverpool as host city for BCSC 2012.
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Brandy & Melville open first UK store
10 September 2012
Italian womenswear brand Brandy & Melville has agreed a deal to open its first store on London’s King’s Road.
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DTZ appoints new head of UK shopping centre investment
10 September 2012
DTZ has appointed Lewis Ellis’s Barry O’Donnell as head of UK shopping centre investment.
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BCSC: Portas, landlords and vacancy rates
10 September 2012
We are out of the blocks early….first email from BCSC is at 7.30am setting the scene for the opening day, there is golf to exercise the body and seminars a plenty to broaden the mind.
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Celebrity Special: Property Week meets Peter Andre
6 September 2012
Property Week heads down to Brighton to get all the gossip from the launch of Peter Andre’s new coffee shop.
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MORNING AFTER: BCSC 2011 Conference - Day Two
21 September 2011
The full conference programme swung into action on the second day of BCSC with talks from Sunday Times economics editor David Smith, former CBI director general Richard Lambert, Store Twenty One chief executive Anupam Juhnjuhnwala and Argent joint chief executive Roger Madelin.
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BCSC: Henderson's Martin Perry on retail development, the NPPF and Mary Portas
21 September 2011
Henderson’s Martin Perry, director of retail development, talks to Property Week about BCSC, Mary portas and the National Planning Policy Framework.
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BCSC: Morrisons property head on expansion plans and format changes
21 September 2011
Terry Hartwell, group property director at Morrisons, talks to Property Week about the supermarket chain’s expansion plans and new formats.
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BCSC: Phil "the Power" Taylor launches Marks & Spencer Stoke anchor plans
21 September 2011
Marks & Spencer has agreed heads of terms to open a 100,000 sq ft anchor store in Realis Estates’ City Sentral scheme in Stoke.
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BCSC: Store Twenty One chief - the North is better for us
20 September 2011
Anupam Jhunjhunwala, chief executive of fashion chain Store Twenty One, spoke to Property Week at the BCSC conference today about his expansion plans, where the chain plans to open, and what he thinks of the state of the UK economy.
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BCSC: Former CBI head calls for next round of quantitive easing
20 September 2011
Former director general of the CBI, Richard Lambert, today called on the government to implement a new round of quantitive easing.
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MORNING AFTER: BCSC 2011 Conference - Day 1
20 September 2011
The first day of the annual BCSC Conference got off to a flying start this week in Manchester Central.
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BCSC: No easy way out of European economic crisis, Sunday Times's David Smith says
20 September 2011
David Smith, economics editor at the Sunday Times, opened today’s BCSC conference by looking at the reasons why the global, European and British economies have faltered over this year.
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BCSC: Opposition to NPPF "nonsense" says former CBI head Lambert
20 September 2011
Business grandee Sir Richard Lambert today called objections to the Government’s new national planning framework `nonsense’.
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BCSC: shopping centre development set to worsen
20 September 2011
The pace of UK shopping centre development remains sluggish with just 500,340 sq ft of space added in the first half of this year and is set to worsen, according to research by Cushman & Wakefield.
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BCSC: Quintain secures new Wembley lettings
20 September 2011
Quintain has announced two further restaurant lettings at its London Designer Outlet in Wembley.
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BCSC: government needs to aid town centre retail
20 September 2011
The BCSC has called on government to make a strong commitment to town centres as a focus for investment as part of the proposed National Planning Policy Framework, and has said the business rates regime acts as a barrier to retail growth.
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BCSC: Richard Akers welcomes you to BCSC
19 September 2011
Richard Akers, president of the British Council of Shopping Centres and managing director of retail at Land Securities, talks to PropertyWeek.com at the start of the BCSC conference in Manchester.
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PWTV: Retail special at Movers & Shakers
19 September 2011
In advance of the British Council of Shopping Centres conference starting today, Movers & Shakers Property Networking Club held a retail breakfast at the Dorchester hotel in London.
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BCSC Blog: Time to Evolve
19 September 2011
Like 1800 other people, I am heading up to Manchester again for the BCSC Conference & Exhibition. It’s always a great event, pitched somewhere between academic and educational excellence, marketing and sales excess and party extreme.
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BCSC Blog: getting ready for the main event
16 September 2011
We’re all gearing up this end for the BCSC Conference next week. It will be strange going to the conference in September rather than November as in previous years but hopefully there could be a prospect of signing retailers up before the end of the year!
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A little compromise will make 2012 less bleak
16 September 2011
As the busiest time of the retail calendar approaches, the industry is starting to look past Christmas and into the year ahead
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Knowledge is power and high streets must take it back
16 September 2011
August, as far as I’m concerned, was created with one purpose in mind: to sit on a beach and read voraciously
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Landlords pass muster — but only just
16 September 2011
Occupier Satisfaction Survey shows service charges remain a contentious issue
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MORNING AFTER: BCSC New Generation Summer Social
19 August 2011
Top names from the retail industry gathered at Home House in London’s West End for the BCSC New Generation Summer Social on Wednesday.
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PWTV: London Riots - "We have time to rebuild" says Boris
9 August 2011
Boris Johnson today vowed that high streets ravaged by London’s rioters would be repaired in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Property champions Labour’s retail rescue plan
29 July 2011
The property industry has welcomed the launch of a four-point plan to save Britain’s high streets by the Labour Party this week, but concerns persist that key issues are being overlooked.
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Portas In A Storm: retailers and property experts question review
8 July 2011
As the downturn continues to claim high-profile retail casualties, property experts and retailers are questioning whether Mary Portas has the expertise to save UK high streets.
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Tackling ‘staggering’ business rates will revive our high streets
8 July 2011
Town centres are the lifeblood of our communities and the businesses operating from them are fundamental to sustainable economic growth and social progress
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Town centres first will build communities that last, says Richard Akers
8 July 2011
The government is due to publish its national planning policy framework to replace planning policy statements. Richard Akers sets out his concerns about the change
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Retail property does not have the skills to pay the bills
24 June 2011
It will not have escaped anyone’s attention that retail has been having a particularly hard time of it of late, and, as Colliers Retail Report shows, this is having a knock-on effect on landlords
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There’s malls to play for in Yorkshire
24 June 2011
Demand for retail in the region is encouraging. Hardeep Sandher examines how the latest schemes are faring and what is in the development pipeline
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MORNING AFTER: BCSC Purple Apple Awards
25 May 2011
The British Council of Shopping Centres Purple Apples Awards, which reward effective shopping centre marketing across UK shopping centres, took place with a glitzy awards ceremony at The Brewery in London.
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BCSC: Shopping Centre Asset Pricing Guide
12 May 2011
The shopping centre sector is going through a period of significant change. Lease lengths are shortening, retailer turnover information is increasingly the basis on which some element of rent is calculated, consumer shopping habits are evolving with advances in the capability andcoverage of the internet and social media are leading to a democratisation of information, transforming people from consumers of information into information generators.
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‘Valencia opinion’ signals clarity in European procurement law confusion
06 May 2011
Pressure on public finances means councils have few reasons to be cheerful. But they should take heart from a change in the case law around procurement rules, which could make it easier to push on with regeneration plans
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BCSC calls for rethink on secondary shopping centre valuations
06 May 2011
Guide urges valuers to take closer look at lease terms and tenants’ stability
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Only one route to redemption for valuers
06 May 2011
Surveyors sat expectantly at the newly rebuilt national venue, the occasion was the biggest in their profession for a decade
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Greater transparency in valuation "critical" for shopping centres, says BCSC
5 May 2011
Greater transparency and consistency in shopping centre valuation is “criticial” for boosting confidence in the sector, the British Council of Shopping Centres said yesterday.
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People Moves: Schroder, Cushman & Wakefield and more
28 April 2011
CB Richard Ellis has appointed Alex Greaves from Harrods Estates as senior sales negotiator in the central London residential team.
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Lunson Mitchenall/BCSC: Shopping Centre Development Pipeline 2011
14 April 2011
The last two years have seen a radical change in the opportunities for retailled development. The stark consequences of the UK banking crisis, combined with falling capital values and consumer demand has had a profound effect.
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Councils await new business rate regime
18 March 2011
Budget to clarify whether the government favours grants over retention
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MORNING AFTER: BCSC Shopping Centre Management Conference
16 March 2011
Edinburgh was host to around 400 delegates from across the UK for the British Council of Shopping Centres’ Shopping Centre Management conference at the start of the month.
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Curtis is the one for Grosvenor
8 March 2011
New fund manager outlines plans for Liverpool One and beyond
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New guide for retailers
25 February 2011
Shopping centre organisation BCSC has published a Guide to Retail Delivery for landlords, tenants, agents and centre management teams
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BCSC: Guide to Retail Delivery
24 February 2011
Retail delivery is the proposed process from Agreement for Lease to opening for trade that all stakeholders contribute towards in the opening of a retail store in existing or new premises, operated by a landlord.
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The only way is up?
23 February 2011
The age old debate over whether upwards only rent reviews are fair and whether they should be prohibited has taken an interesting turn in Ireland following the pledge by Fine Gael and Labour to retrospectively ban them if they win power this week.
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John Lewis at home in Newbury extension
28 January 2011
Shearer and Standard Life add to Parkway for 60,000 sq ft At Home store
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BCSC warns against funding nimbyism
11 January 2011
The retail property sector has warned that government funding for communities to engage with planning must not be used to fund ‘nimby’ groups.
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Gold for Bremner at BCSC
6 December 2010
Last week was of course the BCSC Annual Dinner and presentation of the Gold Awards 2010.
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St David's day
03 December 2010
Capital Shopping Centres and Land Securities’ St David’s shopping centre in Cardiff won the Supreme Gold award at BCSC’s annual awards at London’s Grosvenor House hotel on Wednesday night
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St David's in Cardiff wins BCSC Supreme Gold award
2 December 2010
St David’s shopping centre in Cardiff has been given the Supreme Gold award by the British Council of Shopping Centres.
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Retail property is dynamic and can adapt to tougher times
29 November 2010
BCSC and MAPIC were yet again a welcome reality check in terms of the retail development pipeline and occupier commitment.
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Upward-only rent realism
26 November 2010
Sir, Lawrence Hutchings, Hammerson managing director of UK retail, told the BCSC conference three weeks ago that the system of long UK leases with upward-only rent reviews could be changed to some form of index-linked lease structure.
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Pound stretches
12 November 2010
Value retailer Poundstretcher plans to “aggressively” expand to 500 stores in the UK by the end of 2012
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Whom to know Lawrence Hutchings
12 November 2010
Hammerson’s retail head supports a new global leasing structure
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Morrisons to chase convenience market
05 November 2010
Morrisons is to fully expand into convenience stores in the UK, as part of a three-pronged growth strategy
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Shilton on side for Stoke scheme promotion
05 November 2010
Former Stoke and England goalkeeper and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Peter Shilton was at the BCSC conference in Manchester this week
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Shopping centre sales spree
05 November 2010
Shopping centre sales totalling more than £280m were close to completion this week as the BCSC retail conference took place in Manchester
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Strength in numbers
05 November 2010
Re: BCSC: remember your name (letters, 29.10.10).
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Topshop signs lease at BCSC in conference first
05 November 2010
Fashion retailer Topshop has signed a lease at Parkway, the mixed-use scheme in Newbury, Berkshire
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The LBD serves its purpose at BCSC but men need to shape up their shirts before MAPIC
4 November 2010
What a difference a year makes!! Returning to Manchester for the annual BCSC, I am finding the conference to be in fine form - well attended and a real sense of purpose within the hall supported by an eagerness from both landlords and retailers to deal.
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MORNING AFTER: BCSC Conference - Second Day
3 November 2010
The second day of the conference saw a host of key figures in the industry speaking, including LXB Retail chairman Phil Wrigley, Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas of the New West End Company and Richard Akers of Land Securities.
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MORNING AFTER: Moorfield, Plus Shops and Kitchen La Freanis Morgan host Cloud Bar drinks
3 November 2010
The Absolute Partnership, the shopping centre fund venture between Moorfield, Plus Shops and Kitchen La Frenais Morgan, hosted a party at the Cloud 23 bar in Manchester at the top of the Hilton hotel.
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BCSC 2010: Westfield "not worried" about delivering Stratford scheme in tough 2011
3 November 2010
Strong basic fundamentals will shield Westfields’ Stratford City retail development from the tough economic conditions expected in 2011, the company’s operations director told Property Week at teh BCSC conference in Manchester.
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BCSC 2010: North-South divide caused by shrinking public sector, says Henderson
3 November 2010
Increased public sector unemployment is creating a north-south divide in the retail sector, Anglea Keane, senior research analyst at Henderson Global Investors told Property Week at the BCSC conference in Manchester.
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BCSC 2010: Football legend Peter Shilton on football, dancing and retail
3 November 2010
Former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton, the most capped player in England’s history, was at the BCSC conference in Manchester yesterday to promote a retail development in the home of one of his former teams - Stoke.
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BCSC 2010: Westfield and Hermes to refurbish and improve Guildford mall
2 November 2010
Joint owners, Westfield and Hermes Real Estate have today unveiled a multi-million pound repositioning plan for The Friary Shopping Centre in Guildford.
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BCSC 2010: Call for changes to UK leasing structure
2 November 2010
Speakers at the BCSC conference in Manchester have called for major changes to the UK’s leasing structure.
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BCSC 2010: Government needs to look at "enormous tax burden" it imposes on retailers, says LandSecs' Akers
2 November 2010
The government should give retailers more leeway when paying uniform business rates, Richard Akers, managing director of retail at Land Securities, told Property Week today.
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BCSC 2010: We need to get smarter now public sector money has gone, New West End Co chief says
2 November 2010
The UK’s regions need to get smarter after becoming too reliant on public sector money, Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, chairman of the New West End Company, said today.
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BCSC 2010: Shopping centres get creative as marketing budgets cut
2 November 2010
The average marketing budget for UK shopping centres has reduced by 24% between 2008 and 2011, according to Savills latest survey.
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BCSC 2010: UK only G8 country to have old style lease structure
2 November 2010
“The UK is the only G8 country still to operate with our lease structure,” Lawrence Hutchings, managing director UK retail at Hammerson, said at the BCSC conference today.
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BCSC 2010: John Lewis at home to open in Exeter and Chester
2 November 2010
John Lewis revealed today at BCSC retail conference in Manchester that it will open a further two ‘at home’ shops in 2011.
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BCSC 2010: Upbeat Wrigley says private sector and government must communicate better
2 November 2010
The government and the private sector need better dialogue to kick-start urban regeneration, Phil Wrigley, chairmen of retail investor LXB Retail, and occupiers Majestic Wines and Habitat told Property Week.
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BCSC 2010: Retailers and landlords are foe masquerading as friends
2 November 2010
Terry Hartwell, group property director at supermarket chain WM Morrison, spoke out at BCSC conference about the relationship between landlord and retailers.
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MORNING AFTER: BCSC Opening Bash
2 November 2010
The British Council of Shopping Centres annual conference in Manchester kicked off yesterday with an opening party at the Manchester Central conference centre.
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BCSC 2010: The Co-operative gears up expansion plan
2 November 2010
The Co-operative Food, the supermarket chain, is to double the size of its acquisitions teams as part of its store expansion plan.
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BCSC 2010: Former Leslie Furness pair team up for new firm
2 November 2010
Well-known retail property agents Tim Hance and Jamie Ludlow have formed retail agency practice Prime Retail, reuniting the pair who formerly worked together at Leslie Furness & Company.
