All Property Week articles in 17 February 2006 – Page 2
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Professional
Waterman Group
Waterman Group, the London-based engineering and environmental consultant, has won a competition to masterplan a new city in China. It beat rivals from the US and Japan to land the contract to design Bin Hai New City in the municipality of Tianjin. The competition was sponsored by the Chinese government. ...
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News
Government relocation guide too vague, says Lyons
New ODPM framework lists criteria for relocating government departments
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Insight
Going places
Knight Frank has transferred Angus Baillie (pictured), an associate in occupier solutions, to its retail investment team. He has worked at the firm for seven years. Ian Stewart has joined the national offices department as an associate. Mowlem Asset Services has appointed Braden Stanton as an estates manager in the ...
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Markets
Hammerson prepares to go Native with Spitalfields sale
Native Land and Buccleuch to pay £1.5m for section of Bishops Square scheme
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Insight
The landid gentry
Former Akeler directors Trevor Silver and Stephen Morgan's new venture, Landid, has ambitious plans for 2006.
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Insight
Labour should be praised for planning gain supplement
Sir, In 1948 we had a 100% development charge.
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News
Hammerson and Morley Fund Management
Hammerson and Morley Fund Management's joint venture, the Queensgate Limited Partnership, this week signed a development agreement with Peterborough City Council to develop the £350m 646,000 sq ft (60,014 sq m) North Westgate scheme. It will include a 134,550 sq ft (12,500 sq m) anchor store and 60 ...
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News
Frogmore Northern
Frogmore Northern has been given consent for its refurbishment of the GUS building on the edge of Manchester city centre. The 280,000 sq ft (2,601 sq m) building, close to Piccadilly Station, has been renamed Universal Square and will provide 160,000 sq ft (14,864 sq m) of space. Tenants ...
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Markets
The Prince's Foundation
The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment and charity Business in the Community have published a design guide to encourage better and more affordable rural housing and provide advice on avoiding ‘ghetto-isation'.
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Insight
Lyons farce is failing the regions
On 10 May 2002 Property Week published a four-page piece called ‘Sir Humphrey's worst nightmare' which called for civil servants to be moved en masse out of London ahead of steep rises in West End office rents.
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News
Trillium returns ‘excessive'
Land Securities Trillium benefited from ‘excessive returns' from the BBC's new headquarters in White City, according to a damning report published by the Public Accounts Committee this week.
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News
St Modwen drives forward at Longbridge
Regeneration specialist St Modwen is about to grant a six-month lease extension to Nanjing, the Chinese car maker that bought MG Rover last year, on its 275 acre (111 ha) Longbridge site near Birmingham.
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News
Levanter's German retail drive
UK private investment and development company Levanter Properties has acquired €50m (£34m) of German retail properties as part of a €400m (£273m) drive into the country.
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Professional
Planners dogged by funding gap
Poor funding could hamper local authorities from implementing a key recommendation of a government report into the planning system.
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Markets
A fairway to development
The members of a 100-year-old Bradford golf club have welcomed the chance to oversee the redevelopment of their course.
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Markets
Department war
Minerva has won the battle to develop Croydon's born-again Allders store into a shopping centre.
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Markets
Delivering the goods
Take-up of grade A space may have been down in Leeds in 2005, but the decline looks set to reverse later this year.
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News
Standard Life set to fund Delancey's Portman Square...
Fund manager to pay more than £50m for 120,000 sq ft mixed-use scheme
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News
Liberty results defy weak retail sector
Shopping centre company's 16% rise in value higher than forecast
