All BCSC articles – Page 6
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Online
PWTV: London Riots - "We have time to rebuild" says Boris
Boris Johnson today vowed that high streets ravaged by London’s rioters would be repaired in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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News
Property champions Labour’s retail rescue plan
The property industry has welcomed the launch of a four-point plan to save Britain’s high streets by the Labour Party this week, but concerns persist that key issues are being overlooked.
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Insight
Portas In A Storm: retailers and property experts question review
As the downturn continues to claim high-profile retail casualties, property experts and retailers are questioning whether Mary Portas has the expertise to save UK high streets.
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Insight
Tackling ‘staggering’ business rates will revive our high streets
Town centres are the lifeblood of our communities and the businesses operating from them are fundamental to sustainable economic growth and social progress
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Professional
Town centres first will build communities that last, says Richard Akers
The government is due to publish its national planning policy framework to replace planning policy statements. Richard Akers sets out his concerns about the change
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Markets
There’s malls to play for in Yorkshire
Demand for retail in the region is encouraging. Hardeep Sandher examines how the latest schemes are faring and what is in the development pipeline
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Insight
Retail property does not have the skills to pay the bills
It will not have escaped anyone’s attention that retail has been having a particularly hard time of it of late, and, as Colliers Retail Report shows, this is having a knock-on effect on landlords
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Online
MORNING AFTER: BCSC Purple Apple Awards
The British Council of Shopping Centres Purple Apples Awards, which reward effective shopping centre marketing across UK shopping centres, took place with a glitzy awards ceremony at The Brewery in London.
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Online
BCSC: Shopping Centre Asset Pricing Guide
The shopping centre sector is going through a period of significant change. Lease lengths are shortening, retailer turnover information is increasingly the basis on which some element of rent is calculated, consumer shopping habits are evolving with advances in the capability and coverage of the internet and social media are ...
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Insight
Only one route to redemption for valuers
Surveyors sat expectantly at the newly rebuilt national venue, the occasion was the biggest in their profession for a decade
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Professional
‘Valencia opinion’ signals clarity in European procurement law confusion
Pressure on public finances means councils have few reasons to be cheerful. But they should take heart from a change in the case law around procurement rules, which could make it easier to push on with regeneration plans
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Professional
BCSC calls for rethink on secondary shopping centre valuations
Guide urges valuers to take closer look at lease terms and tenants’ stability
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Online
Greater transparency in valuation "critical" for shopping centres, says BCSC
Greater transparency and consistency in shopping centre valuation is “criticial” for boosting confidence in the sector, the British Council of Shopping Centres said yesterday.
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Professional
People Moves: Schroder, Cushman & Wakefield and more
CB Richard Ellis has appointed Alex Greaves from Harrods Estates as senior sales negotiator in the central London residential team. Savills has hired Stephen Tully from Prupim as a development management director in its national development team; Alan Williams from DPP as a senior planner in Bristol; Charles ...
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Online
Lunson Mitchenall/BCSC: Shopping Centre Development Pipeline 2011
The last two years have seen a radical change in the opportunities for retailled development. The stark consequences of the UK banking crisis, combined with falling capital values and consumer demand has had a profound effect.
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Professional
Councils await new business rate regime
Budget to clarify whether the government favours grants over retention
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Online
MORNING AFTER: BCSC Shopping Centre Management Conference
Edinburgh was host to around 400 delegates from across the UK for the British Council of Shopping Centres’ Shopping Centre Management conference at the start of the month.
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Professional
New guide for retailers
Shopping centre organisation BCSC has published a Guide to Retail Delivery for landlords, tenants, agents and centre management teams
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Online
BCSC: Guide to Retail Delivery
Retail delivery is the proposed process from Agreement for Lease to opening for trade that all stakeholders contribute towards in the opening of a retail store in existing or new premises, operated by a landlord.