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
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
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
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
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
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-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
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
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 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