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German discount retailer Lidl has submitted plans for a 450,000 sq ft distribution facility at Wade Park Farm on the edge of the New Forest National Park as part of its south-coast store expansion plans.

According to King Sturge’s latest Industrial and Distribution Floorspace Today report while the total amount of available space in industrial buildings rose 5.4 per cent in the second half of last year, to 22.68 million sq m, the figure for the South West

Swiss Post International has taken Units 11 and 12 totalling 42,018 sq ft at Brixton’s Heathrow Estate on a short-term lease until 2015 at a rent of £11.80 per sq ft with a three month rent free period.

According to Lambert Smith Hampton’s Corporate Real Estate Matters, despite the economic turmoil, occupiers still recognise that sustainable buildings boost productivity and they will pay up to a 15 per cent premium for that benefit.

Developer Goodman has secured full planning consent for its £120m development of the former Andover Airfield site after Test Valley Council ratified the Section 106 agreementat its planning control committee on 31st March 2009.

Geodis Wilson has taken developer SEGRO’s 96,563 sq ft LHR1 warehouse in Hatton Cross, near Heathrow Airport making it the largest single letting in the Heathrow area in over two years.