An announcement by Transport Scotland that it has appointed an engineering firm to design a solution to a dangerous section of the A83 has been sharply criticised by campaigners, who have described it as ‘a nonsense’. The Rest & Be Thankful …
Panattoni has fully let its 335,430 sq ft logistics park in Borehamwood after signing lease agreements for the last three units with one of Europe’s largest television and film production companies. It has leased 300,000 sq ft at Panattoni Park …
Hargreaves Services has posted pre-tax profits of £34.5m, with strong growth in its services arm as its HS2 contract commenced. For the year ending 31 May 2022, the industrial group also saw a reduction in its overall revenue to £177.9m from £20…
Commercial real estate investor Firethorn Trust has appointed construction firm Glencar to build a 93,984sq ft last-mile logistics scheme in south-east London. The project, dubbed Blueprint Erith, will be built by construction firm Glencar. Work…
FORS has announced the launch of a ‘digital transformation’ programme as it works with members towards ‘a safe and sustainable future’. Speaking at the body’s fifth annual conference at the Manchester Central Convention Complex, concession direc…
Rula Developments has won detailed planning consent for a new 190,000sq ft high specification warehouse unit at Junction 28 of the M1 motorway near Huthwaite in Nottinghamshire. The proposed warehouse unit, which will be built speculatively, is …
Davies Turner is building a 140,000sq ft logistics hub on the edge of Atherstone in the West Midlands. It said the multi-user hub would rival in size its largest site in Avonmouth and will feature a high bay fully racked area, with a top locatio…
A major new retail and trade park development has been announced on the site of a former Co-op supermarket in Tamworth. Demolition work has already begun on the 80,000sq ft site and construction is expected to take 52 weeks, with Lidl, B&M, …
A decision to reduce the size of HS2’s London terminus station at Euston means spoil will no longer be removed by rail and may have to be achieved with thousands of HGVs instead. In a written statement by the parliamentary under-secretary for st…
Real estate developer Panattoni has submitted plans for one of the largest speculative logistics facilities in South Yorkshire. The application is for a 417570 sq ft facility next to Doncaster Sheffield Airport. It said it had acquired the 18.4-…
Invesco Real Estate and Barwood Capital have teamed up to build a £300m portfolio of up to eight urban/last mile industrial and logistics warehouses across the UK. The partnership has already acquired its first two sites, including a four-acre p…
Yeovil-based Bradfords Building Supplies has added a further seven Izuzu Grafter 3.5-tonne tipper trucks to its 210-strong fleet following the arrival of two of the vehicles last year. The company now has over 15 operating from branches across t…
The Port of Hull is set to expand its logistics facilities after Associated British Ports (ABP) was granted outline planning consent by East Riding of Yorkshire Council to develop more than 4.25 million sq ft of industrial, manufacturing and log…
Global real estate developer and investor Trammell Crow has chosen Milton Keynes as the location for its first industrial logistics facility in Europe as it announces plans to launch similar schemes across the UK. Construction company Glencar ha…