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.
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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.
There is now some 106 million sq ft of available warehousing in the UK equating to 17.3 per cent of national stock.
Swedish medi-tech company Sandvik has secured a 15-year multi-million pound deal for a 112,000 sq ft orthopaedic implant and instrument production and distribution facility at JF Finnegan’s Beighton Link Business Park in South Yorkshire.
Bicycle and car parts retailer Halfords is to take a new 320,000 sq ft purpose-built distribution centre in Keresley Park, Coventry as part of its reorganisation plans for the distribution network in 2010.
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
