All Property Week articles in 7 January 2022 – Page 7
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Insight
How can we most effectively heat our buildings?
With energy costs likely to be a running issue throughout 2022, the question of how we can most effectively heat our buildings is entering mainstream public debate. To meet our national legal commitments on net zero carbon emissions, we must stop using gas to provide space and water heating in ...
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Professional
Q&A: Five minutes with James Pellatt, director of workplace and innovation at GPE
James Pellatt, director of workplace and innovation at GPE, on how he got started in property, his TV and podcast recommendations and how he’d spend a million pounds.
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News
Greggs CEO to retire after rolling out hundreds of shops
Greggs chief executive Roger Whiteside is to retire from the bakery chain, having grown the estate from around 1,600 shops to 2,200 during his tenure.
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Online
Bristol property developer Cubex appoint new director
Award-winning property developer Cubex has appointed Joe Downey as director.
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News
Office rebound will gather momentum
Editor: The findings of Deloitte’s London Office Crane Survey, which point to a surge in office scheme starts, is both welcome and unsurprising.
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Insight
Expansion, London HUB and Social Membership
Gravity Co-Living reveals its learnings from the pandemic and outlines its hopes and aspirations for 2022.
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Insight
The year of ESG, RPI and WFH
ESG, RPI and WFH may in each case just be three little letters, but they are hugely significant concepts that had not been at the forefront of our minds for the past few decades. They are now.
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Professional
Envisioning ‘spaces’, not ‘places’
The narrative of the ‘dying high street’ both pre- and post-pandemic has often been over-hyped and overstated.
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Insight
We must nurture emerging talent
The petrol crisis last autumn, restaurants’ reducing opening hours and delays to Christmas gift deliveries all highlight the UK’s serious shortage of skilled workers.
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Professional
Do new conveyancing forms offer hope for trapped leaseholders?
Recently published, the updated versions of the LPE1 (Leasehold Property Enquiries), LPE2 (Consumer Summary) and FME1 (Freehold Management Enquiries) forms go live on 11 January 2022 and include several additions that will benefit property managers and those buying and selling leasehold properties.
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News
Jonathan More joins construction team at Irwin Mitchell as partner
Irwin Mitchell has hired a new partner for its construction team.
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News
Paragon provides finance for Burrington’s Winslade Park development
Burrington Estates has secured a £28m loan from Paragon Development Finance to fund its Winslade Park scheme near Exeter, Property Week can reveal.
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Professional
Helping to bring life to empty units
Our high streets and shopping centres are visual testament to property sector difficulties. Whatever the reason may be – shopping shifting to digital, pandemic-reduced footfall, Brexit uncertainty – empty commercial gaps present themselves as the public face of a troubling time for landlords.
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Insight
Boris Johnson may yet survive
And so we bid a none-too-fond farewell to a year of frustration and disappointment for millions across the country.
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News
The game’s up for Tom Bloxham
Urban Splash’s Bloxham spotted moonlighting for Shrewsbury Town FC.
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Insight
Footing the bill for hybrid working
The past two years have taught us a lesson in productivity: it’s possible (and acceptable) to conduct the nine-to-five from home, in a café, on a train, by the beach… We’ve grown accustomed to working anywhere and everywhere.
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Professional
The Domestic Building Works Bill: a sign of things to come?
In November, the Domestic Building Works (Consumer Protection) Bill was withdrawn from parliament.
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News
Industry undeterred by Bank of England’s interest rate rise
Despite a rise from 0.1% to 0.25%, rates remain ‘incredibly low’ – but further increases could be cause for concern.
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News
Sunak’s hospitality bailout was too little too late
Editor: The government’s new grants were a meagre Christmas present for the hospitality sector.
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News
Spin class: The Good, The Bad...
For Pastis Communications, 2022 has started like a Spaghetti Western – sadly, not A Fistful of Dollars, but The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.