All Property Week articles in 26 October 2001 – Page 2

  • News

    'Sell by' dates for plans

    26 October 2001

    Development plans should be downgraded once they have passed their 'sell by' dates, the RICS has told the government. As part of its submission for the Planning Green Paper, the institution encourages ministers to introduce local plan 'end dates', after which plans would lose their overriding status and ...

  • Insight

    Planning in crisis

    26 October 2001

    David Blackman reveals details of confidential Whitehall documents which outline the biggest planning shake-up for 50 years

  • News

    Mansion Court

    26 October 2001

    Architect the GMW Partnership has won the 2001 British Council for Offices ' Fit-out of Workplace award for the south-east, for the offices of Imagine and Evolution (pictured right) at Mansion Court, 47-53 Cannon Street, London EC4. The 1,120 sq m (12,050 sq ft) floorplate includes workstations designed around service ...

  • News

    Topland and Miller close to M&S swoop

    26 October 2001

    Topland and its partner Miller Group are within two weeks of buying 79 Marks & Spencer shops in one of the biggest sale-and-leaseback deals of the year.

  • News

    Inner City

    26 October 2001

    It's official. Property outsourcing is good for you.

  • News

    Cirrus gets nod for Johnson

    26 October 2001

    Cirrus properties and Thorstone Land & Property have been chosen as developers for the 4.7ha (11.8 acre) Johnson & Johnson factory site in Portsmouth.

  • Professional

    Case News

    26 October 2001

    Everett v Secretary of State for the Environment Transport and the Regions and Another. High Court – 3 September 2001The claimant constructed buildings without planning permission for use as 'work studios and storage'. Temporary planning permission was granted subject to conditions as to demolition and non-residential use. The premises were ...

  • News

    Financial Times's new office building

    26 October 2001

    Media giant Pearson has instructed Healey & Baker to find tenants for the Financial Times's new office building next to Southwark Bridge (right). The 15,330 sq m (165,000 sq ft) building, known as Rive

  • News

    Middle Eastern broadcasters on the move

    26 October 2001

    The Middle Eastern Broadcasting Corporation has put its London studios on the market, through niche West End agent George Trollope, in one of the more unusual office disposals of the year. The company occupies a former BT warehouse on Silverthorne Road in Battersea, SW8, which has been converted into ...

  • News

    Henry Boot Developments

    26 October 2001

    Henry Boot Developments has been granted planning permission for a new £15m mixed-use development in Walthamstow, London E17. The 14,865 sq m (160,000 sq ft) project has been designed by London-based architect Colman Partnership. It will incorporate a new library (pictured right) and includes 6,505 sq m (70,000 sq ft) ...

  • News

    Don't judge the EH book by its cover

    26 October 2001

    It was not hard to guess which side was which at this week's opening of the Heron Tower inquiry.

  • Markets

    Oxfordshire industrial: Oxford blues

    26 October 2001

    Activity is slowing as the economy stutters.

  • News

    Land Securities the big loser in weak market

    26 October 2001

    Land Securities was the big casualty of the large property stocks in last week's weak stock market.

  • News

    Local hero's telephone bid nets Orkneys' hotel

    26 October 2001

    A telephone bidder from the islands of Orkney bought the Hoy Hotel on the archipelago's Hoy island for £40,000 at Countrywide 's auction at the Swallow Hotel in Glasgow on 17 October. Countrywide was offering the hotel after it was repossessed by lenders. Auctioneer Mike Logan Wood joked that the ...

  • Insight

    Not the best of months for British industry

    26 October 2001

    When they were riding high Railtrack and Marconi between them were valued at £44bn. Now, one is effectively in administration and the other has junk bond status. It has not been a good month for industry in this country. Railtrack looks less and less attractive the closer you get. ...

  • News

    Saxon Law scoops Berkeley Square Estate contract

    26 October 2001

    Agent wins management contract from Middle Eastern investors

  • News

    Beevor quits L&G to join Grosvenor

    26 October 2001

    L&G Property chief will run international £3bn fund management business

  • News

    Q: Why are they still standing? A: Because we can't spoil the view

    26 October 2001

    The Home Office and a private finance initiative consortium are locked in a rights-to-light row that is delaying demolition of Victoria's 'Three Ugly Sisters'.

  • News

    Executives axed in JLL Aussie shake-up

    26 October 2001

    First part of worldwide cost-cutting drive leads to redundancies down under

  • Markets

    Oxfordshire offices: Science holds the answers

    26 October 2001

    Demand from biotech and pharmaceutical firms is fuelling the market.