Tag: regeneration



Dundee Waterfront Planners release more Land for Commercial Development

Posted on 16 July, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Planners behind the £1bn reshaping of Dundee’s Waterfront have released a million square feet of land in a bid to attract new developments and thousands of jobs to the city. A second half-a-million square foot package will follow in 2016. The... Read More

City of Culture Regeneration Plan promises boost to Hull Commercial Property Market

Posted on 11 July, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

HULL City Council has unveiled the first £12.7m phase of the largest transformation project in the East Riding city’s history. The improvements — expected to cost at least £25m when complete — are part of the run up to Hull’s reign of UK City of... Read More

Consultants to “Soft Market” Wolverhampton Development Sites

Posted on 9 July, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Wolverhampton council has launched an international search for developers and investors to regenerate a brace of neglected sites across the West Midlands city. To manage what the authority calls its “soft marketing” exercise it has hired property... Read More

Approval granted for Leeds Office Scheme

Posted on 4 July, 2014 by Kirsten Kennedy under Commercial Developments

Councillors in Leeds have this week overwhelmingly thrown their support behind a project to create a six storey office block in the city centre. The development, situated on a plot currently being used as a car park, is a joint venture between... Read More

Urban Splash back in the black and ready for Future Growth

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Business News, Commercial Developments, Top Properties

Despite a £16m plunge in the value of its property portfolio, Urban Splash — the company behind Birmingham’s landmark Rotunda and Fort Dunlop regeneration projects — has at last crept back into the black. The Manchester-based firm, which rose to... Read More

Developer hopes it will be Third Time Lucky for Bankside Tower Scheme

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

A prime London site that has lain dormant for more than a decade looks set to get new high-rise development at the third attempt. The first application to build on the site at 20 Blackfriars was submitted in 2002 but knocked back after a public... Read More

Stoke courts Chinese Investors as Regeneration Continues

Posted on 3 July, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Business News, Commercial Developments

Stoke-on-Trent,which last year saw 14 international companies move into the area, is hoping new links with China will attract inward investment and create hundreds of jobs. Already one of the fastest growing areas of the UK, the city is now courting... Read More

Leisure Development planned for former Kidderminster Carpet Works

Posted on 2 July, 2014 by Kirsten Kennedy under Commercial Developments

Local firm Exchange Street Properties has this week approached Wyre Forest District Council with a planning application regarding the former premises of carpet maker Brintons, located in Kidderminster town centre. Should the plans be given the green light by... Read More

Doncaster’s iPort is named UK’s Biggest Development

Posted on 27 June, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

South Yorkshire’s six-million square foot iPort scheme has been named as Britain’s largest commercial development — overtaking Merseyside’s massive Wirral Waters regeneration scheme and the Stratford City project to extend the 2012 Olympic Games’... Read More

Campaigners threaten Legal Action over Botley Retail Development

Posted on 26 June, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Campaigners fighting an Oxfordshire retail development have hired lawyers to investigate alleged links between a local council and the site’s developers. Residents of Botley fear that members of the Vale of White Horse District Council have become too close... Read More