Capital & Centric submit the Goods Yard plans for Stoke-on-Trent

Capital & Centric have submitted plans to create a striking £60m urban quarter next to Stoke-on-Trent’s train station, with new images of the plans released. The social impact developers recently consulted on plans for the Goods Yard, a mixed-use community featuring new homes, works spaces, shops, bars, cafes and a new public square at the […]

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Aviva Investors and Packaged Living partner to develop family homes across the UK

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc (‘Aviva’), announces it has partnered with Packaged Living (“the Partnership”), the specialist UK Build to Rent (“BtR”) developer, to create a Single-Family Rental platform of suburban homes across the UK. The Partnership will acquire and forward fund BtR developments which will help to meet demand […]

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Bloor Homes secures planning permission for 227 new homes

National planning consultancy Boyer (part of Leaders Romans Group) has secured a reserved matters planning consent on behalf of Bloor Homes at Basingstoke Golf Course. The application was approved by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council on 3 November 2021. Of the new 227 homes, 91 are dedicated affordable housing. The reserved matters planning consent follows the […]

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Berkeley given green light for 4,600 home scheme

St James Group, Berkeley Group, has announced it has been given the green light for the 4,600-home scheme. Plans outline a new community immediately east of Junction 14 of the M1, that includes schools, local centres, employment and will include a range of accommodation from one-bed flats to five-bedroom houses. As part of the extension,  a new bridge […]

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PATRIZIA launches £800m London focused urban logistics platform

PATRIZIA AG, a leading partner for global real assets, announces the final close of its GLI platform (“the Platform”), a London urban logistics sidecar investment to its flagship discretionary value add fund, TransEuropean Property VII LP (“TEP VII” or “the Fund”), with a further EUR 750 million to invest. The Platform, which will be operated […]

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SSE announces £12.5bn investment plan to accelerate net zero targets

SSE has rebuffed calls to break itself up, and announced a multi-billion pound plan to boost investment across its renewable energy and electricity networks businesses. SSE will expand its investment plan for the next five years to £12.5bn, from its previous target of £7.5bn, across its business in the areas which will help the UK […]

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Further homes approved in Ebbsfleet Garden City

Bellway Homes has been given planning approval for 121 homes in Ebbsfleet Garden City. It will be the first major phase of the Northfleet Embankment West mixed-use development and will be known as Harbour Village.  The area forms part of Ebbsfleet Development Corporation’s site at Northfleet Riverside with a key aspiration that development will re-connect the existing communities […]

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Workspace acquire historic Busworks building in Islington for £45m

Workspace Group, London’s leading provider of flexible office space, is pleased to announce that it has acquired The Busworks, in Islington, for a total of £45m. This off-market acquisition is being funded from existing facilities. A former Victorian bus factory with a rich history dating back to 1888, the property provides 104,000 sq. ft. of […]

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Grainger acquires two sites for BtR schemes in Exeter and Sheffield

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord with 9,727 operational rental homes and a further 8,373 in its £1.9bn pipeline, today announces that it has acquired two sites for direct development build-to-rent opportunities, totalling a potential c.480 new PRS homes within Grainger’s planning and legal pipeline. Exmouth Junction in Exeter benefits from having planning […]

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