Harwell secures £300m new funding

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus has secured £300m of financing to help it expand and build out new laboratory, advanced manufacturing, and office space. Over the next two years Harwell will use the additional funding secured to build 440,000 sq. ft of new Laboratory and R&D buildings across the campus. The finance facility was secured […]

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Kadans continues Oxford expansion with Windrush Innovation Centre purchase

Kadans Science Partner will add Windrush Innovation Centre in Oxford, UK to its Pan-European portfolio. The asset will be freehold acquired from Tozi Limited. Kadans intends to demolish the existing building and create over 60,000 sq ft of new high specification laboratory and office space in partnership with the tenant, Oxford Biomedica. Oxford is a […]

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Masterplanning team appointed for the core site Cambridge

As joint master-developers for the 5,600 home mixed-use development in North East Cambridge, TOWN and U+I have selected a masterplanning team for the Core Site. The practice appointed to lead the project is Swedish firm Kjellander Sjöberg Architects, working alongside leading architecture practices, including Bell Phillips, Haworth Tompkins, and 5th Studio Architects, with Feilden Fowles, Nooma […]

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Puma Property Finance delivers three new loans for UK’s largest care home developer

LONDON: Puma Property Finance (Puma) has today announced it is providing new funding to LNT Care Developments Group (LNT), the UK’s largest care home developer. The funding will finance three purpose-built care homes in Wisbech, Broadstairs and Southampton in its continued support for the care sector. With a track record of funding essential social infrastructure […]

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Oxford-Cambridge Arc providing regional boost for construction

The government’s recent decision to revive the concept of an Oxford-Cambridge Arc as a British version of Silicon Valley has underlined the potential for new development across a broad area linking the two university cities. The government has committed £2.5 million to a new regional partnership to attract international investment to the area. Meanwhile, before […]

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Oxford Council begins planning for next 20 years

Oxford City Council has started work on the new Oxford Local Plan 2040 that will guide Oxford’s development over the next 20 years. The Local Plan 2040 is a step forward from the Local Plan 2036 that was adopted last year. It will also take into account the Oxfordshire Plan 2050, which will provide a strategic […]

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Oxwed’s planning application validated

OXWED LLP, the joint venture between Nuffield College and Oxford City Council, is excited to announce that the planning applications for the regeneration of the Oxpens site have been submitted and validated by Oxford City Council. In line with the recently adopted Supplementary Planning Document for Oxford’s West End and the Council’s Economic and City […]

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Railpen secures Oxford life science business park in £30m deal

The UK’s railways pension scheme – Railpen – has scooped for a life-science business park in Oxford for £29m. Eastpoint Business Park, acquired from AEW UK REIT, comprises of five buildings and they aim to reposition the asset to create a laboratory-led portgolio. This is a further commitment by Railpen in the Oxford Cambridge Arc […]

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