UKREiiF News

Government pledges more than £1bn to support low-carbon economy ambitions

An ambitious blueprint to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector and more than £1bn in funding to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals was unveiled by the Business and Energy Secretary today. Building on the Prime Minister’s ’10-Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution’ published last year, the new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy sets out the […]

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Network Space to breath new life into Manchester industrial site

Network Space has exchanged contracts for the purchase of a prime 11.4 acre redevelopment opportunity in South Manchester. The site on Atlantic Street in Altrincham, which comprises 220,000 sq ft of industrial warehouse space, was until recently the HQ and trailer manufacturing site for the Cartwright Group. Acquired from the administrators for an undisclosed sum, […]

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London Mayor’s £80m grant paves way for 1500 new homes on former Dagenham car plant

Sadiq Khan today announced a landmark deal to secure more than 1,550 affordable homes on the former Dagenham Stamping Plant car works site in East London. The agreement, which involves an £80m grant from the Mayor’s Affordable Housing Programme, has enabled the Peabody housing association to acquire the 45-acre site from Europa Capital. The mixed-tenure development will provide […]

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Hammerson reveals new look for former Debenhams store

Hammerson, who this week announced a £1.6bn write down of its retail property portfolio, has submitted plans to redevelop the former Debenhams in Leicester into new homes for rent. The property investment company has worked jointly with private-rented-sector specialist Packaged Living, which has extensive experience of bringing forward high quality PRS schemes, to develop the […]

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U+I win battle to build business park in Kent

Regeneration specialist developer and investor U+I has secured planning consent to transform 30 acres of open green belt land in Kent into a new £225m green business community. This comes after the Secretary of State confirmed he did not wish to call in the application on the development planned for green belt and an Area of […]

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Legal & General department head joins UKREiiF Advisory Group

Legal & General’s Pete Gladwell joined the UKREiiF Advisory Group this week to become its 19th member. Pete, who is L&G’s Head of Public Sector Partnerships, joins a host of senior public and private sector professionals advising on the inaugural three-day networking, exhibition and conference super event in Leeds next year (May 17-19). Chaired by […]

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LondonMetric reinvests in Milton Keynes warehouses

Logistics specialist LondonMetric has bought two warehouses in Milton Keynes for £31.2m. The two properties have been acquired in separate transactions and comprise a 66,000 sqft unit, which is let to TalkTalk as a data centre and has been acquired for £23.9m, and a 42,000 sqft urban logistics warehouse which is three miles from the centre […]

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