All Property Week articles in 11 March 2005 – Page 3
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News
RICS committee chooses Chase as president in waiting
Graham Chase lined up for top job as snubbed senior vice-president John Williams considers options
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News
Orb Estates duo charged with conspiracy
Two directors of Orb Estates who were involved in the failed internet firm Izodia have been charged with fraud, theft and forgery by the Serious Fraud Office.
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Markets
Centre takes to the stage
For decades, Swindon has seen massive growth on its outskirts, while the town centre has gone into a spiral of decline. Now ambitious plans aim to turn the centre around.
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Professional
Case news
Jonathan Ross reports on how a council missed out on damages by taking a contract too literally, while Warren Gordon looks at a common-sense resolution to a rent review case
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News
Docklands office breaks off
The head of Chesterton’s London Docklands office has become the first to establish a breakaway company to service clients, which have been left in confusion over who will look after their business.
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Markets
Housebuilders braced for Budget
Will next week’s Budget bring a solution to the housing cost conundrum?
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News
Warner gets go-ahead at Bolton
Warner Estate Holdings has won planning consent for £30m extension to Bolton’s Market Hall shopping centre.
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News
Planning blow to Burford’s Trafford Interchange
Burford’s proposed Trafford Interchange scheme in Manchester has been blocked by local councillors amid concerns that the benefits of the development would not justify the loss of the green belt land.
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The bitter end
Lease liabilities and poor management blamed as industry mourns Chesterton’s demise
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News
Cottons sells biggest Midlands
The champagne flowed at Cottons’ record-breaking auction at Aston Villa Football Club last Thursday, after the sale of the Midlands’ biggest-ever auction lot.
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Professional
Plymouth and Paddington vote in favour of BIDs
Two Business Improvement Districts have won the backing of local business ratepayers.
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News
Birthday party belied catastrophe
Chesterton celebrated its bicentenary in style at the National Gallery in January. But the lavish reception of champagne and canapes gave no hint of the disaster that was soon to follow.
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News
I beg your royal pardon?
Sara-Jane Preston of NAI Fuller Peiser, has gone down a storm in the US, where she is treated like royalty.
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Insight
Battersea powers up on strength of Hwang’s big vision
The politics of property, with Steven Norris
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Markets
Bath office green light subject to parking
Bath will witness the start of its only office development this year if the developer, ICP Commercial, and Bath and North Somerset Council can agree on how to prevent the occupiers from parking their cars in residents’ parking spaces.
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Markets
Planners slate Ballymore’s Temple Gate scheme
Irish developer appeals against criticism of its mixed-use scheme in Bristol
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Markets
Ballymore is granted permission for Europe’s tallest residential development
Ballymore has been granted planning permission to build Europe’s tallest residential development at 1 Millharbour in London Docklands. The scheme will include more than 700 flats in two interlinking towers rising to 36 storeys and 400 ft (120 m) and 50 storeys and 560 ft (170 m) in height. The ...
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Insight
Friends fight back
Leases are shorter, break clauses are commonplace and rental growth has stalled: tenants have never had it so good. Yet now, the upward-only rent review – one of the key reasons for property’s status as one of Britain’s three main asset classes, with equities and gilts – is under threat. ...