All articles by Adam Branson – Page 16
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Markets
Vast ‘inland port’ set to open up new markets
SEGRO’s East Midlands Gateway has superb transport links and could provide a ‘shot in the arm’ to UK plc.
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Insight
Student accommodation: what impact will Brexit have on student housing
Nearly 18 months after the UK’s shock decision to leave the EU, what impact could Brexit have on the student accommodation sector?
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Insight
PW Perspectives - Winter 2017
The Winter issue of Perspectives: nine big topics, nine big names, nine big think peices.
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Professional
Brexit, stamp duty and green-belt rules cast shadow over industry
Crowe Clark Whitehill’s Stacy Eden untangles the results of firm’s annual survey on attitudes within the industry.
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Professional
Scotland Yard verdict demonstrates Khan’s tough stance on affordable housing provision
London mayor Sadiq Khan has laid down a marker on affordable housing and viability assessments in the capital by rejecting an amended proposal for the former New Scotland Yard building.
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Insight
Accountancy rules: accounting for change
A new accounting standard could have significant implications for industrial developers and landlords.
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Professional
New PDR for light industrial won’t be a panacea for developers
Last month, a new permitted development right (PDR) came into force that allows the change of use of a building from light industrial to residential. The right is temporary, lasting for three years from 1 October 2017.
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Professional
Driverless cars could transform cities for better and for worse
There’s a lot of excitement about the future of driverless cars, or ‘autonomous vehicles’ to use the parlance preferred by the professionals.
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Professional
New body hopes to ease pressure on local authority planning departments
Public Practice wants to help councils cut costs, avoid planning delays and improve relations with the private sector.
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Markets
Giant medical campus gets off the drawing board
On the edge of Maidstone, an unusual property development is slowly but surely starting to take shape.
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Professional
Lendlease determined to improve after reporting 19% gender pay gap
Earlier this month, Lendlease became the first construction and property company to publish its figures under the government’s gender pay gap reporting scheme.
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Professional
Landsec employee recognised for helping disadvantaged people into meaningful work
Debbie Akehurst talks to Property Week about the work behind her Outstanding Achievement Award at the inaugural Social Mobility Awards.
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Insight
Regeneration projects: revival instinct
In the wake of the financial crisis, local authorities have had to adopt a more creative approach to regeneration. Property Week assesses how they are tackling it and what they are working on.
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Professional
Councils and developers team up to boost housing supply
A new report on how to boost housing supply launched this week, but this was not another dry tome full of recommendations for long-term policy changes that will in all likelihood never happen.
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Professional
Q&A: The thoughts of one young woman as she sets out on a journey into property
At the end of last month, senior figures from across the industry gathered at the upmarket Claridge’s hotel in London for the 2017 Women in Property (WiP) National Student Awards, sponsored by Bouygues UK, Cushman Wakefield and Linden Homes.
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Professional
Landsec studies lighting, air quality and even taps in pursuit of WELL certification
To meet the exacting standards of the healthy building certification, Landsec had to plan its new HQ very carefully.
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Professional
Happy, healthy and hard-working: new programme helps retailers boost wellbeing
Last week, the UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) launched the second iteration of its Wellbeing Lab programme.
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Markets
Will North East fall behind in powerhouse stakes?
The lack of a regional voice is something that deeply troubles property professionals in the North East. While in the past year a host of UK city regions have been established and elected mayors to fight their corners, Newcastle and its hinterlands saw its devolution deal implode.
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Markets
Science Central brings jobs and renewed confidence to Newcastle
Last summer Newcastle received its biggest vote of confidence in years when Legal General Capital (LGC) announced that it would invest at least £65m in Science Central, a science and technology hub in the city’s centre.
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Markets
Large industrial deals dry up as a result of Brexit effect
Take-up of logistics and industrial units over 50,000 sq ft across the North East totalled 755,582 sq ft in the first half of this year, down 5% on the previous half year but 33% up on the same period last year, according to Knight Frank.