All Property Week articles in 17 June 2011 – Page 3
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Gareth Clutton memorial service
The memorial service for Gareth Clutton, chief executive of the Portman Estate, who died of lymphatic cancer on 28 May, will be held at 11:30 am on Friday 8 July at the Church of St Sepulchre-Without-Newgate on 10 Giltspur Street in the City of London. It will be followed by ...
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People Moves: CLS Holdings, The European Property Federation, Land Securities and more
CLS Holdings has appointed Rosie Donaldson from Doherty Baines as property manager. Chris Armon-Jones has retired after 40 years’ service at Drivers Jonas and Drivers Jonas Deloitte. Armon-Jones was managing partner of Drivers Jonas from 1991-1997 and chairman from 2001-2005. From 2002 he led the firm’s European practice ...
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Staff claim property employers provide inadequate support
Two-thirds of employees in the property industry think their employer is providing minimal or less than the legal requirement of support in the workplace
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Stratford City’s lucky strike
Westfield’s Stratford City has signed All Star Lanes to open a 14-lane bowling alley, restaurant and cocktail bar at the £1.45bn retail, office and leisure scheme that opens on 13 September. The American-style restaurant will be headed by ex-Quaglino’s head chef Steve Collins. H M is also understood to have ...
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City seeks use class reprieve
City of London chief planning officer Peter Rees yesterday met with Communities and Local Government secretary Eric Pickles to lobby for an exemption from the government’s changes to the use class system
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JP Morgan’s City mandates
JP Morgan has picked Cushman Wakefield and DTZ to create a strategy to dispose of property in the City of London
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‘Cities need to grow, otherwise they die,’ says Stephen Greenhalgh
Hammersmith and Fulham leader Stephen Greenhalgh believes decentralising local government will help
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Chirpier Chiswick office market prompts gazumping …
Confident developers start on speculative schemes
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Partner Capital One rebrands
Partner Capital One, the private equity firm that targets prime residential, has changed its name to Beaubridge
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Candys’ Saudi defence deal
Ever since the Candy brothers put the finishing touches to their One Hyde Park development in London’s Knightsbridge, all eyes have been on the eclectic mix of buyers of the multimillion-pound flats therein
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Businesses to be given say in planning
Details emerged this week of the voting system being drawn up by the government to give businesses the chance to relax planning red tape in their local area
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Penrith business park revamp nears end
Trafford-based developer Property Alliance Group will finish refurbishing half of its 60,000 sq ft industrial site in Penrith, north Cumbria, by the end of this month
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Three Delta closes for business
Paul Taylor, the man who put together a highly leveraged £1.3bn care home property deal at the height of the market, has closed his fund management business, Three Delta
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Professional
Judgment gives councils final say over business rates list
A judgment in the Lands Tribunal is good news for property developers that are burdened with rates bills on empty buildings they are developing
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Professional
Wales leads the way in sustainable building
Local authorities in Wales that do not have an up-to-date local development plan will have to assess schemes against a presumption in favour of sustainable development
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Professional
Councils taught to build schools
Local authorities with vacant office space could convert it into primary and secondary schools (pictured) to address the UK’s shortage of school places
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Brookfield lures CBRE man
Giant Canadian fund manager Brookfield Asset management has poached the top executive of CB Richard Ellis in New York to run its listed US office subsidiary
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Occupiers’ eye: Booths — the regional champion
Bigger by turnover than Holland Barrett and nearly as big as Pret A Manger in Europe, yet Booths, the north-west’s thriving posh supermarket chain, is unknown down south