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Developer Muse has started what is believed to be the first speculative big shed development in the country for nearly a year.

Dart Group, parent company of Fowler Welch Coolchain, has taken developer SEGRO’s 500,000 sq ft The Hub distribution facility in Heywood Distribution Park, Greater Manchester.

Homeware retailer Dunelm Mill has secured a 250,000 sq ft building extension with ProLogis at in ProLogis Stoke, Staffordshire.

Internet grocery company Ocado has short listed five sites for its new 400,000 sq ft bespoke RDC including IM Properties Birch Coppice in the West Midlands.

According to King Sturge’s latest Industrial & Distribution Floorspace survey, the supply of new units over 100,000 sq ft shrank by 18 per cent in 2009 while the availability of new space contracted by 8.3 per cent in the six months to December 2009.