All Property Week articles in 29 November 2013 – Page 5
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Professional
Real estate students learn digital mapping
Planning and environmental risk information provider Landmark Information Group this month launched a lecture series on digital land mapping, hosted by Oxford Brookes University.
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Markets
Need to know: Oakmayne and Ministry’s merry dance nears end
By 19 December, mayor of London Boris Johnson will give his verdict on whether to grant consent for Oakmayne’s development of 335 flats at Elephant and Castle. David Hatcher explains what the main talking points will be.
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Markets
Habitat unit's cosmic transformation
CosmoSONY DSC More than two years after furniture chain Habitat went into administration, the Norwich branch in London Street will reopen as Cosmo, the pan-Asian buffet restaurant (pictured), and the Gym, a budget gym. Landlord HSBC granted Cosmo a 15-year lease with five-yearly rent reviews ...
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Professional
Lenders to evaluate conveyancers via new portal
Lawyers have hit out at plans for a shake-up of the way banks recruit solicitors to advise on residential property transactions.
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News
Minerva warns of judicial review of Whitgift consent
Westfield and Hammerson’s £1bn transformation of the Whitgift Centre in Croydon won a resolution to grant outline planning consent this week, but could yet face a judicial review challenge from a neighbouring landlord.
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Professional
My first job: Colliers’ Tony Horrell
Treating rat-infested properties did not deter Tony Horrell, Colliers International’s chief executive of UK and Ireland, from a career in the industry
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Professional
Need to know: MPs slam plan to scrap Code for Sustainable Homes
MPs have urged the government to rethink plans to axe the Code for Sustainable Homes.
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Professional
Solar power to enlighten Chelmsford diocese
Diocese’s £1m installation on 220 vicarages will cut carbon emissions.
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Insight
Catch-up time for outer London and rest of UK
How much has changed in a year. In the final weeks of 2012, average house prices across the UK were flat or slowly falling, with the notable exception of central London.
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Markets
Q+A: Pinnacle partner sought to stump up cash
Shortlist of funding providers for stalled City tower being compiled. Mike Phillips reports
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News
Welsh government to let Smart office in Cardiff
The Welsh government has appointed Knight Frank to let its first speculative office building in Cardiff.
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News
Salford ‘Canary Wharf’ set for ‘repositioning’
A scheme dubbed the “Canary Wharf of the north” in Salford Quays is to undergo an overhaul after being bought this week by Hunter Property Fund Management.
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Markets
Cambridge conservationists threaten ‘twin towers’
Brookgate awaits decision of public inquiry into demolition of Victorian terrace to make way for CB1 scheme’s next phase.
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Markets
Spicers punches hole in Cambridge sheds market
Office products distributor vacates second shed in Sawston area.
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Markets
Cambridge face-off to restore hotel’s dignity
One of Cambridge’s architectural embarrassments of the 1960s — the front of the University Arms hotel on Regent Street in the city centre — is to be demolished and replaced by a more traditional frontage.
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Professional
Management guru: budget to put wind in recovery’s sails
Property Week’s management guru makes budget priorities for 2014.
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Markets
Bucket maker scoops up distressed factory
Harford Attachments, the Norwich-based firm that manufactures excavating buckets for mechanical diggers, has exchanged contracts to buy the factory of the failed double-glazing company, Uniglaze.
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Markets
Q+A: British Land’s Tim Roberts on Paddington
In July, British Land bought Aviva Investors’ interest in Paddington Central for £470m. When the scheme is completed, the REIT will own 1m sq ft of a 1.6m sq ft estate. Its head of offices, Tim Roberts, tells Property Week about its plans.
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Professional
People Moves: WSP, British Land, Cushman & Wakefield and more...
The Livingcity Group has appointed Andrew Taylor as site manager in residential estate management.
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Markets
Fruiterer rules at Britannia Business Park
Reynolds Catering Supplies, buoyed by the booming restaurant trade to which it supplies fruit and vegetables, has solved its expansion issues by buying the freehold of a tenanted warehouse next to its premises in Waltham Cross, on the Essex-Hertfordshire border.