All Property Week articles in 21 November 2008 – Page 6
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Professional
Safety executive turns up heat in Oval gas test case
HSE tells planning inquiry that new stand should only be used when gas tanks are empty
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News
Carnaby Street’s silent night
Shaftesbury celebrated the launch of its Christmas decorations last week with a ‘silent disco’ at Carnaby Street.
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News
Canary Wharf welcomes JP Morgan’s Docklands move
Investment bank confirms ‘flexible agreement’ for 1.9m sq ft European headquarters
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News
Miller finally buys Mall Varna
Miller Developments has completed the €120m (£103m) purchase of the Mall Varna shopping centre in Varna, Bulgaria, after 17 months of talks.
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News
Edinburgh council to buy its own home
Edinburgh City Council is poised to buy its head office in a £91m purchase from Aviva Investors that could save Council Tax payers up to £38m
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Markets
Regeneration funding ebbs in Brighton but flows in Crawley and Croydon
While regeneration creeps forward in Crawley and Croydon, funding drains away from some of Brighton’s key schemes.
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Insight
Be brave: set up a niche firm
Sir, Having run niche firms for 31 out of my 42 years in the business, I loved the article about niche firms being due for a comeback (Property Week, 31.10.08).
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News
Big Yellow bounces on ‘no dividend’
Big Yellow, the self-storage company, enjoyed a near-6% bounce in its share price on Tuesday, despite plans to cut its dividend.
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Markets
Canning Town first phase open to bids
Havering council and London Thames Gateway Development Corporation have invited bids for the first phase of Canning Town’s £3bn regeneration – 2,000 homes, 334,000 sq ft of retail and 269,000 sq ft of offices.
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Markets
Bellway keeps grant flats
Bellway claims to have stolen a lead on its rivals by becoming the first developer to receive grant funding for affordable housing from the Housing Corporation and then retain ownership of its development.
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News
BCSC offers shelter from the storm
Up to Liverpool for the annual BCSC conference, where the conference hall’s big winner was the Mall fund.
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News
Restaurateur Jamie Barber has launched Italian restaurant chain Kitchen Italia
The first eatery opened this week at Westfield London.
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News
Backlog of common sense
How we wish that we could relax, turn the phones off and stop answering emails when it gets busy.
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Professional
Buildings Research Establishment to debut new award
EDF Energy is piloting a ‘BREEAM In Use’ award at its north-eastern headquarters.
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News
Hansteen poaches Warner Ashtenne duo
Mark Ovens and James Havery to be reunited with Hansteen founders
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News
David McLean’s Kendrick buys out housebuilding arm
David McLean’s group finance director John Kendrick was today expected to buy the north-west-based firm’s housebuilding division out of administration.
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News
Mayfair appoints Larkin
Mayfair Capital Investment Management, the private investor fund manager, has appointed former Jones Lang Wootton director David Larkin as its chairman.
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News
High Court appeal over Thurrock
Wildlife charity Buglife was in the High Court this week appealing against a High Court decision that prevents a judicial review of Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation’s planning consent for a 205,000 sq ft distribution scheme in West Thurrock.