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Property Week Digital Edition – 1 December 2023
Why Barratt is betting on use of timber to accelerate its MMC housebuilding operations and net zero strategy - Tide Construction chair John Fleming on its future plans after completing Europe’s largest modular resi tower - Industry fears govt reforms intended to speed up planning will instead create two-tier system
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Property Week Digital Edition – 1 December 2023
Why Barratt is betting on use of timber to accelerate its MMC housebuilding operations and net zero strategy - Tide Construction chair John Fleming on its future plans after completing Europe’s largest modular resi tower - Industry fears govt reforms intended to speed up planning will instead create two-tier system
Caddick greenlit for final 650-unit phase of Leeds PBSA scheme
Developer Caddick Group has secured planning permission to deliver the 651-unit final phase of its purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Leeds.
Allied Irish Bank to move offices to St Mary Axe
Allied Irish Bank (AIB) is to move to enlarged head office premises at 70 St Mary Axe in the City of London, also known as the ‘Can of Ham’, from its current site on Undershaft, as it seeks to support sustainability aims.
London Square buys £50m Kingston resi development site from NHS Property Services
Developer London Square has bought a residential development opportunity with a GDV of £50m in Kingston Upon Thames, south-west London from NHS Property Services (NHSPS).
HBD and Barnfield get greenlight for 800,000 sq ft Lancashire industrial scheme
Developers HBD and Barnfield Group have secured planning permission for an 800,000 sq ft logistics scheme in Preston, Lancashire.
Former Selfridges owner Signa Holdings files for insolvency
Signa Holdings, which recently sold its 50% stake in Selfridges, has filed for insolvency citing massive liquidity problems and higher interest expenses.
Adderstone Living’s North East housing scheme first to secure nutrient neutrality credits
Developer Adderstone Living has secured planning permission for an affordable housing scheme in County Durham, in what it claimed will be the first such development using Natural England’s nutrient neutrality credit system.
Ravelin Housing appoints Chinneck Shaw to manage its first BTR scheme in Portsmouth
Portsmouth City Council’s development company Ravelin Housing has appointed lettings and property management agency Chinneck Shaw to manage its first build-to-rent (BTR) scheme, Brewery House in Portsmouth.
Brightbay sells portfolio of 25 Kwik Fit properties for £21m
Brightbay Real Estate Partners is selling a 25-property portfolio used by car maintenance company Kwik Fit across the UK for £21m.
Timber land: PW pays visit to Barratt Homes’ new Derby factory
Barratt Homes is betting big on wooden construction as part of its net zero strategy. Property Week visits the housebuilder’s new factory in Derby to find out more.
London pub and supermarket lead latest Acuitus auction
A supermarket in Fulham, south-west London and a well-known pub in South Woodford, in the east of the capital, both guided at £1.4m, are among the 35 lots lined up for Acuitus’s commercial property auction on 13 December.
Life and death with modern methods
The case for modern methods of construction (MMC) has long been described in the most polarised terms.
Has the promise of planning reform failed to materialise?
The UK’s planning crisis addressed in last week’s Autumn Statement has been criticised as ‘headline-grabbing’.
Q&A: Five minutes with Clara Carnot, senior associate at Chris Dyson Architects
Clara Carnot, senior associate at Chris Dyson Architects, on how she got started in property, her top film and book recommendations, her number-one travel destination and the most ridiculous fact she knows.
Is solar a threat to food security?
Whatever the wording of any ‘food security’ clause in a revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), it is unlikely to bring practical change and may not achieve the desired effect of slowing the pace of solar farm development or controlling where they emerge.
Earls Court has an exciting future
The year was 2010, the client was Capco, the development site was Earls Court. I was part of the advisory team picking masterplanners for this ambitious project.
WeWork woes do not reflect flex market sentiment
Editor: By the time WeWork officially filed for bankruptcy last month, it had started to feel like old news. The drip-feeding of WeWork’s woes over the past six months had already prepared the market for the inevitable.
Staircase law: do your due diligence
Editor: In your recent build-to-rent (BTR) report, the requirement for new-build residential buildings over 18m to have a second staircase was presented as a challenge for developers and another hurdle to overcome, but perhaps not a deal-breaker.
Tips to avoid development traps
The often complex lifecycle of a new development can present many pitfalls for developers and may result in costly changes or, at worst, stop a development in its tracks.
Leaders Romans Group introduces fertility benefit
Leaders Romans Group (LRG) has developed a benefit policy to help employees undergoing fertility treatment.
Industry doubts planning fee shake-up will speed up system
Failure to ring-fence higher fees for council planning departments seen as flaw in latest government reforms.
Towering ambition: big interview with the founder of Tide Construction
Tide Construction has taken volumetric modular development to new heights with the construction of the 50-storey co-living scheme Enclave. Founder and chair John Fleming tells Property Week about the firm’s latest developments and its plans for the future.
Boom time for SFR housing
Investment levels have reached record levels this year amid a fall in house sales.
