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Peel, advised by Indigo Planning, has received the go-ahead from Salford Council for Port Salford, a £400 million multi-modal freight exchange for Greater Manchester.

Gazeley and architects Chetwoods have been awarded the Best Sustainable Development prize at the 2009 LEAF Awards for their speculative development at G.Park Blue Planet, Chatterley Valley.

Clothing wholesale company Boi Trading has paid in the region of £2m for Whitbread’s 120,000 sq ft former distribution facility at Ordsall Riverside, Salford, Manchester.

Property agents across the country are reporting an increase in the number of companies enquiring about space for logistics for the first time in a year.

Enquiries are on the up, but the thought that occupiers could turn and flee again must be too dreadful to bear, says LIZA HELPS.

It’s not only a long but a lonely one, with the Midlands and North West sections of the M6 accounting for 38 per cent of the UK’s total empty warehouse space. But this might be changing. JESSICA DAVIES reports.

Plans for what will be one of the biggest port-related developments in the country – covering almost 1,500 acres on the south bank of the Humber – have been submitted to North Lincolnshire Council.

beelocal, an online enterprise that will enable independent shops and producers to sell their goods via the internet and offer customers a 24-hour delivery service, has taken part of a former carpet factory on Aynam Road in Kendal, on a three-year lease a

Stobart Rail has been shortlisted as one of three preferred bidders for a £25m contract to turn Carlisle Airport into a logistics hub for its sister company Stobart Logistics. The transformation includes the building of a 400,000 sq ft warehouse.