All Property Week articles in 15 October 2010 – Page 8
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Insight
Change needed to banking
Sir, Am I alone in tiring of hearing politicians pleading for more restraint among bankers, especially about big banker bonuses?
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Markets
Banana Republic shuns SouthGate for traditional Bath shops
Gap’s more upmarket sister brand considers Union Street over youth-oriented new shopping centre
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News
Ted Baker heats up Trafford Centre
Ted Baker has signed up at the Trafford Centre near Manchester
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News
Baglioni books in expansion plans
Baglioni Hotels, the Italian luxury hotel group, is planning to expand and is seeking management contracts to operate hotels in New York and Paris
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Insight
Go shopping in Germany to bag a bargain
Visitors to last week’s Expo Real investment fair in Munich were struck by the strength of the German economy
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Markets
Swindon council runs away with Regent Circus
Swindon Borough Council’s planning committee decided on Tuesday to disregard advice from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and approve plans for restaurants and a cinema to replace the derelict 1960s Swindon College
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Professional
Homes fund giveth and taketh away
Grant Shapps to shake up council housing maintenance finance
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Markets
Avonmouth refuses to become dumping ground for waste disposal companies
The future of Avonmouth for recycling waste and generating power will be decided in three separate appeals before the end of this year
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News
Retail finds asylum in Trafford Centre
Retailer Foot Asylum has taken a 3,500 sq ft store on the upper level of Regent Crescent at the Trafford Centre in Manchester on a 15-year lease. Zone A rents at the centre vary from £320 to £400.
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News
St Martins assets to go on market
Savills will start marketing assets from the £900m St Martins portfolio next week
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Markets
Ethel Austin loses investment arm
One of the most revered names in Liverpool business suffered a setback with the collapse into administration of Ethel Austin Investment Properties (EAIP) on 28 September
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Professional
Corporate responsibility: Bluewater apprentices ‘graduate’
Kent shopping centre Bluewater celebrated the graduation of five apprentices from its first Bluewater Apprentice Scheme on 29 September.
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News
Appetite for expansion
Cosmo, the “all you can eat” Chinese buffet chain, has hired Richard Susskind Co to find restaurants of 7,000-15,000 sq ft in Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Norwich, Southampton and Soho in London
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Insight
All quangos are not created equal — so spare CABE the axe, says Paul Finch
Chairing a quango has been a curious business in the last few months. At the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), it has been business as usual: design reviewing, advising, doing public space projects and so on
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Professional
Planning ahead: your guide
The government’s localism agenda has been criticised as a “nimbys’ charter”, but one aspect could help developers: the “presumption in favour of sustainable development”
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Markets
Environment Agency’s chosen WestOne
The Environment Agency will at Christmas relocate its national headquarters to 70,000 sq ft at WestOne near College Green in Bristol from Aztec West, after agreeing the deal two years ago
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Markets
First-time buyers squeezed again
Six months of improving credit conditions came to a halt in September with first-time buyers the worst affected by the renewed mortgage squeeze
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News
Henderson starts Caspar sale after restrictions lift
Henderson has begun to dispose of £74.5m of property from its £465m Caspar Property Fund
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News
JCA's nose for Shrewsbury adventure
Priory Group has sold Condover Hall in Shrewsbury to adventure holiday company JCA, part of Tui Travel, for around £6m for a children’s activity centre. Savills advised Priory.