All articles by Stephen Killick

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    Mind your Manors

    11 June 1999

    Leisure operators are queuing up to get into Oxford but where is there for them to go?

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    Ivory towers in Sussex

    16 April 1999

    Few outsiders would suspect that East Sussex harbours one of the worst areas for child abuse and deprivation in the south-east of England. Hastings is the owner of this shocking title, although many other Sussex towns have areas of urban poverty and despair. Parts of once-genteel Eastbourne have been taken ...

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    Turning up the Heath

    16 April 1999

    Haywards Heath s biggest selling point, the easy commute into London, has also been the greatest stumbling block for developers. We find businesses bemoaning the lack of determination to raise the town s profile

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    Boot finds south-eastern foothold on Safeway site

    16 April 1999

    Henry Boot Developments has paid Safeway around £1m for a 3.6ha (9 acre) retail and business development at Hailsham, East Sussex, following the supermarket s failure to secure planning permission for food retail. Contracts have been exchanged with Great Mills DIY at a rent just under £107/sq m (£10/sq ft) ...

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    Brighton block

    16 April 1999

    Sainsbury s has stumbled into a minefield in Brighton, where the council has rejected plans for a town-centre supermarket. But, developers in Hove seem to be enjoying better fortune

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    Change of heart

    5 February 1999

    After winning the ATCM national award for town management, Hemel Hempstead's retail sector is well placed to meet the challenges ahead.

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    Essex appeal

    5 February 1999

    Essex was hit hard during the last recession, but Terry Conder and David Crozier are on a crusade to revitalise the county's economy.

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    Well served

    15 January 1999

    Big brewery chains are battling for business in Norwich and Ipswich.

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    Checking in

    15 January 1999

    Hotel and leisure operators are scrambling to pick up prime sites at affordable prices in Norfolk and Suffolk.