All Property Week articles in 13 March 2009 – Page 15
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Wrekin administration blamed on RBS
Hundreds of jobs are under threat after the Shropshire-based Wrekin Construction Group, which banks with Royal Bank of Scotland, went into administration. The company, which employs up to 600 workers across Britain, said that it had millions of pounds worth of orders.
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MIPIM 2009: London eyes weak sterling cash-in
London is setting out to woo foreign investment from companies attracted by the capital’s falling commercial property prices, weak currency and loosening labour market.
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Ennstone goes into administration
Ennstone, the troubled building materials group, has sold off its UK and Polish businesses after the appointment of administrators to the parent company.
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Nine arrests in mortgage probe
Nine people were arrested yesterday in connection with a suspected £40m mortgage fraud involving more than 500 properties.
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Rock rescue 'had no competition impact', says OFT
The Office of Fair Trading has concluded that nationalising Northern Rock has had no 'significant adverse' impact on competition across financial services.
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Gloom as UK and France fall further
Europe’s recession showed no sign of losing its intensity yesterday as France and the UK reported further sharp falls in industrial production at the start of the year, with German exports also badly hit.
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Output fall piles on UK fears
The economy is likely to shrink by at least another 1.5% in the first quarter of the year, economists warned yesterday after official figures showed manufacturing output suffered the largest annual decline since 1981.
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Residential investor Nice Group in administration
Residential landlord Nice Group has gone into administration.
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McAleer & Rushe gets green light for £45m Bradford scheme
McAleer & Rushe was today granted planning consent for a £45m mixed-use scheme in Bradford.
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MIPIM 2009: Section 106 'lucky dip' is over
London First chief executive Baroness Jo Valentine today warned that developers can no longer be relied upon to make huge contributions to public sector funds.
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MIPIM 2009: Crossrail levy too narrow
The Crossrail levy, under which developers in Central London and the Isle of Dogs would pay £200m towards the cost of the project, have been branded as "too narrow" by the capital's leading regeneration and planning bodies.
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Westminster plans ‘oasis of calm’ near the west end of Oxford Street
Westminster Council is planning a £1m redevelopment of a street near London’s Oxford Street to provide an ‘oasis of calm’ for tired shoppers.
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Margaret Beckett announces preferred choice to run new planning body
Housing minister Margaret Beckett today named Sir Michael Pitt as the preferred candidate to be chair of the new Infrastructure Planning Commission.
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Business rates plan could send firms to the wall, says CBI
Government plans to let local authorities levy a tax on businesses to pay for infrastructure projects could send companies to the wall, the Confederation of British Industry has warned.
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MIPIM 2009: £250m King’s Cross funding package revealed
The details of a £250m funding package for King’s Cross Central development in London have been revealed today.
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Jackie Sadek's MIPIM 2009 blog
'Wonderful to be back in Cannes again', says Jackie Sadek, head of regeneration, CB Richard Ellis and Chair of BURA