All Property Week articles in 20 November 2020 – Page 7
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Professional
What are the best approaches to equity, diversity and inclusion?
It has been encouraging to see the flurry of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) pledges arise across the industry. However, the lack of expert guidance is a cause for concern.
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Angel retail parade on the market as landlords offload London retail
A parade of shops in Angel is the latest parade in London to be put on the market as retail landlords seek to exit the sector.
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Industrial and Logistics supplement November 2020
Almost every part of the property industry has been detrimentally affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Food and beverage operators have spent more days closed this year than open, retailers have shuttered stores after going under or entering into CVAs and administration and offices have lain empty during the biggest WFH ...
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Industrial & Logistics supplement November 2020
Store to shed delivery – Transatlantic BRIDGE – Safe as warehouses – Port in a storm – Rural pursuits – Data centres – Five minutes with…
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This week in… 2013
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld struck a deal with The Crown Estate to open its debut UK store at 145-147 Regent Street, London, in a unit formerly occupied by Hackett.
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Property Week Digital Edition – 20 November 2020
Will property’s efforts to tackle climate change be derailed by the struggle to survive economic fallout of Covid-19? – Participants in the recent RESI Twitter debate address some key issues for the sector – Property Week photographer Phil Weedon hits the streets to capture eerie scenes of London in lockdown ...
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Covid-19 vs Cop26
Will the coronavirus crisis lead to the climate agenda being shelved, as it was in 2008? Adam Branson finds out if resolve has weakened as the pandemic has dragged on
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Joining forces against Covid-19
Amid the Covid-19 outbreak, we were asked by our client, the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, to bring forward all inpatient bedrooms at the under-construction Grange Hospital (pictured) nine months ahead of schedule.
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The holy grail of embedding ESG
It has been a very good week for the environment. US president-elect Joe Biden is readying one of the world’s leading economies to re-join the Paris Accord, while the UK government is to make it mandatory for companies to outline their efforts to arrest climate change – a world first. ...
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Key year looms for UK’s eco push
On 9 November 2020, Glasgow was due to host the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), widely recognised as the most important climate summit since the landmark Paris Agreement in 2015. Like many events in 2020, it has been pushed back, to November 2021, due to the pandemic.
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Resi heavyweights launch new developer
Charlbury Group will focus on planning opportunities in London and South East.
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How digital economy and WFH are fuelling demand
The data centres sector was growing exponentially before Covid-19 and should have come of age during the pandemic. If only there were enough to meet demand.
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Twitter debate: #RESIdebate - Riding a resi rollercoaster
Government policy one of the big talking points at RESI Twitter debate hosted by Property Week and Savills.
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Exodus to countryside creates new logistics demand
As Covid-19 boosts ecommerce and many city dwellers seek a better quality of life in the countryside, some are predicting a boom in rural logistics facilities across the UK.
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Companies prepare to support employees in new lockdown
HR departments put in place mental health support, counselling and buddy schemes to help staff remotely
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Furore over business rates 'postcode lottery'
Local authorities have been slammed for using heavy-handed tactics to chase unpaid business rates bills from office occupiers during the second national lockdown.
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Why trade counters buck Covid downturn
Back in January, when I was interviewed by this magazine (‘ Hobby reveals trade secrets of Dunmoore ’), I said I viewed trade counters “as part of the last- mile logistics business” and that I believed “they will play a big role in the future supply chain”.
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Old boxes, new tricks
On the outskirts of central London sit tired industrial estates. Once used to store products and manufacture traditional goods, these stale grey boxes that housed industrial operators now have a new lease of life, thanks to Millennials and Gen Z and the enormous growth of sectors including ecommerce and food ...
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Westfield owner left reeling as investors block rescue plan
The shopping centre giant’s capital-raising plans are rejected while conditions remain unfavourable for sale of assets.
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Interview with duo bringing big US player to UK
Industrial real estate developer BRIDGE is a fixture in the US but a relative unknown here. That could be about to change. Simon Creasey talks to the two men heading its newly opened UK office