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Developments and Lettings Archive 2006
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Developments and Lettings News 2006
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The second stage of the transformation of the Wythenshawe town centre in South Manchester has been launched with the announcement of  a deal to create a new Asda supermarket  in the large store which Asda has agreed to acqui...


Homebase, the UK’s second largest home improvement retailer, has exchanged contracts with St Modwen Developments Ltd for a 20,000 sq ft unit on Bridge Retail Park in Runcorn, on which it is taking a 15-year lease at an initial r...


Regeneration of  a 25-acre part of the  former Staffordshire Coal Authority headquarters at Fenton, proposed  by Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration Ltd, is likely to start next Spring and attract new firms and employmen...


A hotel, public house, convenience store and 150,000 sq ft of industrial, distribution and office accommodation are included in a detailed planning application by national property developer St Modwen Properties PLC for the first phas...


The landmark Shannon Buildings, a listed former mill in the centre of Walsall is to be transformed into loft apartments, quality offices and speciality shopping in an imaginative £25 million scheme by Norton & Proffitt Devel...


Key Property Investments Ltd, a joint venture company between St Modwen Properties PLC and Salhia Real Estate Company,  has sold The Mead, its successful  2,230 sq m (24,000 sq ft)  retail development in Farnborough Tow...


St Modwen Developments Ltd has exchanged contracts and is shortly to begin construction of a  4,180 sq m (45,000 sq ft)  purpose designed warehouse on its 16-acre Walsall Enterprise Park for G H Stafford, which will acquire ...


The massive Longbridge East Works , which played a significant role in the history of the famous Birmingham production site including war-time aircraft manufacture, i...


Portmeirion Potteries has just taken possession of its new 64,000 sq ft warehouse building on the 400-acre Trentham Lakes development, Stoke-on-Trent, and plans to have its relocated distribution facilities fully operational early nex...


Cranfield Technology Park received a further boost as Nissan  expanded its occupancy on the 100-acre park, which is already home to its 18,580 sq m (200,000 sq ft)  European design headquarters. Nissan Motor Ma...


St Modwen Properties PLC has secured planning consent to develop a £10 million-plus speculative warehousing development at Quedgeley West Business Park, Gloucester. This follows the success of the first phase of th...


St Modwen Properties  is making good short term use of the 30-acre South Ockendon, Thurrock, site it purchased from Ford in summer 2005 whilst it progresses its long term future through the masterplanning and strategic planning p...


HSBC has taken 5,250 sq ft  in the third building of the successful Etruria Office Village complex at Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent, a  development by Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture between St Modwen Prop...


Within one month of the old West Works starting to come down, St Modwen has launched the next phase of demolition at Longbridge. This time it is the...


Widnes Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture regeneration company set up by St Modwen Properties and  Halton Borough Council, has signed up the rapidly-expanding Loughborough-based cinema chain Reel Cinemas as the first operator on...


St Modwen has exchanged contracts for the construction and sale of a 9,000 sq ft three-storey office building to P & R Morson on the 46-acre Coombs Wood Business Park, Halesowen. Construction is scheduled to be compl...


St Modwen Developments Ltd has begun construction on the next phase of speculative development at Walsall Enterprise Park. Already two units are under offer on this fourth phase of development which will provide another ...


Holland & Barrett is the latest retailer to sign up for a new store within the £60 million Wembley Central Shopping Centre redevelopment scheme. The health food retailer, which recently closed its store in Cent...


Another milestone in the preparation for the £100 million regeneration of Hatfield Town Centre has been reached with the resolution by its full council enabling  Welwyn Hatfield Council to submit an application to Governmen...


St Modwen Developments Ltd, the development subsidiary of St Modwen Properties PLC, has entered into an agreement with Syngenta Ltd for the remediation and redevelopment of its former agro-chemical plant site in Yalding, Kent. ...


Construction is progressing at a pace on the 4,738 sq m ( 51,000 sq ft ) first phase of Enterprise Court, Wigan, a St Modwen Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of St Modwen Properties PLC , industrial/warehouse development which has ...


The following is the text of an announcement issued this morning by the Ministry of Defence, confirming that a consortium comprising VINCI PLC and St. Modwen Properties PLC has been awarded the contract for Project MoDEL...


Work will begin later this summer on the first phase of development at Prescot Business Park, in Prescot, Knowsley, where St Modwen Properties PLC is creating  215,000 sq ft of light industrial and business floorspace on the 12-a...


Wates is  relocating from the Edgbaston office sector to Quinton Business Park, Birmingham, which is owned by St Modwen. The building firm has taken a 10-year lease on 10,000 sq ft in Building  5 next to St Mod...


Thirty-one  more shops and food and beverage outlets  in the popular Trentham Retail Village in North Staffordshire will be completed and opening during August. This latest phase of development will more than d...


St Modwen’s regional director Mike Herbert revived old memories when he handed over new offices on Etruria Office Village, Stoke-on-Trent, to his former employers, chartered surveyors Louis Taylor who have become the first tenan...


 St Modwen Properties PLC has been selected by Arun District Council as its preferred developer for two town centre regeneration projects in Bognor Regis. St Modwen’s initial £100 millio...


The second 48,000 sq ft  phase of  Shepcote Enterprise Centre,  the final element of the  27-acre business park development  by St Modwen Developments  in conjunction with Corus plc  on the edge of S...


St Modwen Developments is preparing to capitalise on the success of its Shepcote Business Park, Sheffield, by developing 3,251 sq m ( 35,000 sq ft ) of offices in the same locality. Planning approval has been granted for...


St Modwen’s newly-launched Pegasus Business Park at Hillington, Glasgow, is off to a flying start with the first letting of  3,762 sq m (40,500 sq ft)  of space to Kayfoam Ltd on a ten-year lease  The 31-acre site...


Regeneration specialists St Modwen Properties PLC have let the old emissions test laboratory on the  30-acre former Ford works at South Ockendon, Thurrock, to Green Plus Ltd. Green Plus Ltd will use the premises as ...


Leading regeneration specialist St Modwen Properties PLC, has gained outline planning consent  on  55 acres of its 212-acre Access 18 scheme in Avonmouth, Bristol,  paving the way for  around 74,320 sq m ( 800,000<...


St Modwen Properties PLC  in partnership with Advantage West Midlands (AWM) today began the  development of the 40-acre Longbridge Technology Park, Birmingham , launching a £15 million first pahse  - the initial s...


The first phase of the  £40 million St Matthew’s Quarter regeneration scheme in the centre of Walsall is on track for completion and opening next May, Norton & Proffitt Developments Ltd, a joint venture between St...


Stoke-on-Trent’s ’Motor City’ is fast developing at Trentham Lakes where VW Audi is set to become the  latest car dealership to locate on the 400-acre industrial and logistics park. Volkswagen Grou...


The £75 million redevelopment of Farnborough Town Centre should begin this summer following the successful  outcome of a road closure public  inquiry which cleared the remaining legal hurdle. Key Property...


Construction of  a 150,000 sq ft distribution warehouse has started on Centre 38, Barton-under-Needwood, near Burton-on-Trent, where Barton Business Park Ltd, a joint venture between St Modwen Properties PLC and Prologis Ltd, has...


Golden Tulip UK, the hotel development and operating company, has selected the £100 million regeneration project at Trentham near Stoke-on-Trent as the site for a Tulip Inn. The £7.5 million hotel will be devel...


Outline planning consent  for 550 homes and 15,793 sq m (170,000 sq ft ) of industrial development  has been granted to St Modwen Developm...


Seven more business units  are to be built by St Modwen Developments Ltd on its 93- acre Stretton Business Park, Burton-on-Trent, to help to meet a local shortage of such accommodation. This phase, ...


A flurry of deals have been concluded at  Coombs Wood Business Park, Halesowen, the popular Black Country scheme, where St Modwen Properties is in the final stage of development. Newlands Contract, ...


St Modwen Developments Ltd has sold a further 13 acres at Hilton, Staffordshire, for residential development to George Wimpey (Midlands) which has been building homes continually on the former MoD site for the past ten years.<...


St Modwen Properties PLC, together with Bellway Homes, have been granted outline planning consent by Leeds City Council for the mixed use development of the former Brook Crompton factory site in Guiseley, West Yorkshire. ...


Farnborough’s long awaited regeneration took a major step forward last week with the news that it had at last secured a committed cinema operator to open in the town. Vue Cinemas has exchanged agreements f...


The success of the main phase of the redevelopment of North City Shopping Centre has enabled St Modwen to attract a further major operator to the Harpurhey, Manchester, site in a complicated property deal. Befor...


Expansion demands of successful occupiers of the 99-acre Cranfield University Technology Park have led to St Modwen Properties PLC seeking planning consent to develop a further 7,896 sq m (85,000 sq ft) of hi-tech buildings.<b...


Attendance at Solihull Ice Rink has risen dramatically as a result of the enormous interest in the celebrity ice dancing television series and the winter Olympics. Last month 34,000 people visited the ice...


St Modwen Developments Ltd, the development subsidiary of regeneration specialists St Modwen Properties PLC is seeking planning consent for a £10 million mixed use redevelopment of a seven-acre historic canalside mills c...


St Modwen Properties has been selected by Blackburn with Darwen Council as preferred developer for the creation of a 15-acre business park specialising in providing facilities for medical, technology and knowledge-based firms,...


The following is the text of an announcement issued this morning by the Ministry of Defence, confirming that a consortium comprising VINCI PLC and St. Modwen Properties PLC has been selected as preferred bidder for Project MoDEL <...


St. Modwen has today signed an agreement with the London Borough of Newham for the £75 million redevelopment of Queens Market, at Upton Park, which will see the current tired 1960s concrete edifice replaced with a new ma...


A start has been made by Widnes Regeneration on developing Liebig Court, a mixed use development which will comprise 16 one- bed, 20 two-bed and two threebed apartments and seven retail units, in the centre of Widnes, adjacent...


The Probation Service is to consolidate various offices in the Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme area under one roof in a new 1,440 sq m (15,500 sq ft ) facility at Etruria Office Village, a speculative scheme of three office ...


St Modwen Properties PLC, the regeneration specialists, has signed a building lease with Knowsley Council to develop a 12-acre site at Prescot, Merseyside, which the council has reclaimed and serviced, in three phases includin...


Work has begun on the first phase of the development of the 25-acre Henley Park Industrial Estate, Normandy, near Guildford, which St Modwen Properties has been operating as a managed estate since its acquisition in 2003 from ...


Pets At Home has signed an agreement with Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties PLC and Stoke City Council for a 11,148 sq m (120,000 sq ft) extension to its distribution centre on the 400-a...


A landmark agreement, which opens the way for future car production at Longbridge, Birmingham, was signed today (February 22) between the site owners St Modwen Properties PLC and Nanjing Automobile Corporation (UK) Limited (“NAC...


St Modwen Developments has been granted planning consent for a third speculative phase of 2,787 sq m ( 30,000 sq ft) high quality business units at Walsall Enterprise Park, a mile from Junction 9, M6. This follo...


St Modwen has signed a development agreement with Dudley Council and a joint company has been set up to undertake the £100 million redevelopment of Dudley Zoo and Castle, which it is hoped will begin later this year....


Planning consent for up to 175 dwellings, including 35 affordable homes, to be built on part of the former Bestwood Colliery, North Nottingham, has been granted to St Modwen Developments...


Sainsbury’s Supermarkets has exchanged agreements with Key Property Investments Ltd, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties PLC and Salhia Real Estate Co. of Kuwait, for the anchor food store in the £75 mil...


The £2 million second phase offices development on the 17-acre Trident Business Park, Warrington, is to begin next month. St Modwen Ventures Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of St Modwen Propertie...


A new access road into St Modwen’s Quedgley East estate at Gloucester, is to be built to avoid traffic to the estate affecting local residents. Planning conse...


St Modwen Properties PLC has let two units , totalling some 1,737 sq m (18,700 sq ft), at Walworth Industrial Estate, Andover, to Panavision Europe Ltd, a supplier of imaging technology to the film industry. <br...


Bridge Offset, a printing company, has taken 566 sq m (6,100 sq ft) of existing space on Henley Park Industrial Estate, Normandy, near Guildford. The firm took a five-year lease on the space at an ann...


A £150 million plan to transform vacant land on the 88-acre Goodyear site in Wolverhampton into a new community with the development of up to 625 homes, local shops, a park and school, has been submitted to the city coun...


Another milestone on the long-awaited redevelopment of Farnborough town centre has been achieved with UK’s leading budget hotel operator Travelodge commiting to take space in the new scheme. Travelo...


The former Central Engineers Depot site at Long Marston, near Stratford-upon-Avon, which St Modwen Properties PLC acquired from the Defence Estates two years ago, has been identified as a potential location for accommodating teams for...


Widnes Regeneration Ltd, the public/private partnership between St Modwen Properties PLC and Halton Borough Council, has completed construction of its 1,874 sq m (20,177 sq ft ) Simms Cross retail and offices scheme in the heart of Widne...