All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 4
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NewsAll change at the top
What is it that they say about buses? You wait ages for one and then three come along at once? That certainly seems to have been the case with senior industry appointments this week.
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NewsBack to WFH? WTF?
Can you hear it? The loud clattering of wooden wheels accelerating downhill? That is the sound of the handcart we are all going to hell in, that is.
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NewsDiversity and the office matter
I did not want to write this column. As a mixed-race person (half Trinidadian, half English), I am both black and white, but in the increasingly polarised debate over race, I am seen as neither, someone without enough skin in the game either way, the perennial outsider looking in – ...
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NewsHome truths about WFH
God, I miss the office. I even miss the four-hour round-trip commute. Yes, things are that bad – and I am one of the lucky ones.
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NewsUK industry on red alert
The siege mentality induced by Brexit and exacerbated by Covid-19 has made us fearful of almost everything – returning to work, going to the shops, travelling abroad. It has also made us fearful of almost everyone, especially if they’re not British.
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NewsCouncils count the cost
Don’t try to catch a falling knife, the saying goes. Unfortunately, local authorities (LAs) have not heeded the advice, not when it comes to investment in commercial property, anyway.
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NewsLight at the end of a long tunnel
Do my eyes deceive me? Is that light I spy at the end of the tunnel? This week, there was cause for cautious optimism on several fronts.
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NewsThere’s not much to drink to
Super Saturday wasn’t as super as some expected or, rather, hoped. The iffy weather didn’t help, but that wasn’t the real issue.
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NewsHanged, drawn and quartered
It has been a week of decidedly mixed fortunes for the retail and hospitality sectors.
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InsightView from the top: Roger Wade, founder of Boxpark
The charismatic Boxpark founder tells Property Week why he believes the retail and hospitality sectors face Armageddon if landlords, tenants and the government cannot work together to resolve the rent crisis.
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NewsStart of recovery… or the end?
Social distancing? What social distancing? The review of the 2m rule was already looking moot when people started hitting the beaches, attending underground raves and participating in protests.
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NewsBritish Land’s Simon Carter on putting sustainability first
The company has streamlined the sustainability targets in its 2030 strategy to focus on two key areas.
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NewsSlow down and fast forward
While many of us have adjusted to a slower pace of life in lockdown (walking and cycling instead of taking the car or public transport, cooking with family rather than dining out or eating fast food, doing the gardening ourselves instead of paying someone else to do it or, in ...
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NewsThe end of the Atkins plan?
It had been coming (and critics would say he had it coming). The only surprise is that it did not happen sooner.
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NewsGoing above and beyond
Mental Health Awareness Week will have resonated more than usual this year for many of us as we struggle to cope with Covid-19.
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InsightDavid and the industrial Goliath
As SEGRO turns 100, chief executive David Sleath talks to Property Week about how it became an industrial powerhouse, the challenges Covid-19 poses and what the business plans to do next.
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NewsAt a climate crossroads
What might have been. In January, 2020 was shaping up to be a transformative year for the climate agenda. Inspired by cataclysmic floods and fires, the Extinction Rebellion and the stirring rhetoric of Greta Thunberg, the industry finally seemed to have woken up to the gravity of the situation and ...
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NewsThe back to work minefield
The odds are if you have not been struck down by coronavirus, you will have caught coronaphobia.
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NewsThe long road to recovery
You can see why conspiracy theorists are having a field day over Covid-19. None of the global health crises of the past century or so have turned into global economic ones. Why this one? Some sinister force must be at work.
