Investment Scheme Launches in Ipswich Oct 7, 2022 Ipswich Borough Council has launched a new Inward Investment initiative to help attract companies to invest in Ipswich. A launch event, held at Ipswich Town Football Club (ITFC), in collaboration with Suffolk Chamber of Commerce saw over 60 businesses from around Ipswich come together to see first version of the new brochure: ‘Ipswich: Looking to […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Elemento Group secures £7.6m loan from Blackfinch Property for Essex residential scheme Oct 6, 2022 Development set to deliver affordable housing and communal gardens for local community. Blackfinch Property has provided a £7.6m loan to Elemento Group to fund the development of a residential scheme on currently disused land in the parish of Great Bromley, Essex. The 20-month loan will be used to complete the purchase of a plot of […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
New £50 million MOD cyber academy to be built in Oxfordshire Sep 30, 2022 A new £50 million UK centre is to be built at Shrivenham in Oxfordshire to support the training of world-class cyber experts, domestically and internationally, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced. Based in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, the launch of the academy comes after the DCMS revealed cyber-attacks, including espionage activity and ransomware infiltration, across Government has […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Martin’s Properties ‘still have £65m of cash to invest’ after buying retail and shed portfolio for £23.1m Sep 27, 2022 London real estate company Martin’s Properties has snapped up a portfolio of four assets comprising a combined 130,000 sq ft in the South East for £23.1m. The four freehold assets, spanning 10 acres, include a Wickes retail warehouse in St Albans, Andover Retail Park in central Winchester and Speedfield Retail Park in Fareham, plus a […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Sovereign Peveril JV submits plans for £500m Hertfordshire mixed-use scheme Sep 26, 2022 Hertfordshire is to get an entirely new town centre, with plans submitted today for the £500m Brookfield Riverside development in Cheshunt. Designed by Lyons+Sleeman+Hoare, the 1m sq ft Brookfield Riverside will rise at the intersection of the M11 and M25 motorways. Sovereign Centros are in a development partnership with Peveril Securities. The parties were appointed […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Essex council wants £80M DfT funding for roundabout Sep 26, 2022 Plans to redesign the Army and Navy in Chelmsford have moved another significant step forward. Essex Council have submitted an outline business case to the Department for Transport for funding of £67 million. The funding is for the proposed Army and Navy Sustainable Transport Package. This is the next stage of the bidding process for […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Plans for £1.2bn upgrade to A12 between Chelmsford and Colchester approved Sep 26, 2022 Under the £1.2-billion-pound plans, the A12 between and Colchester – junctions 19 (Boreham Interchange) to 25 (Marks Tey Interchange) – will be widened to three lanes in each direction. Two major bypasses will also be constructed; one at Rivenhall End and a second between Kelvedon North to the Marks Tey Interchange (junctions 24-25). The proposed changes to […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Investec provides £29m development loan for two industrial schemes in Peterborough and Aylesbury Sep 26, 2022 Investec Real Estate announces that it has provided Chancerygate, the UK’s largest multi-unit industrial property developer and asset manager, with two, 22-month senior development loans, totalling £28.7 million, to support the construction of two industrial schemes, totalling 288,000 sq ft. In Peterborough, the UK’s fastest growing city, Chancerygate will deliver 123,000 sq ft of industrial, […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
£35M Canvey Island Flood Defences approved Sep 23, 2022 The Environment Agency is set to begin the renewal of flood defence revetment this financial year, 2022/23, bringing huge improvements to the seafront and shoreline. This £35 million project will renew Canvey Island’s existing flood defences along the 3-kilometre stretch of the Island’s southern seafront. Canvey Island is a town, civil parish and reclaimed island in […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Plans for UK’s longest road tunnel Sep 20, 2022 Transport for South East (TfSE) have tabled ambitious plans to ease congestion on the A27 in the South East by creating the UK’s longest road tunnel. The plans were supported by Worthing Borough Council council at a meeting earlier this month. Plans for the road tunnel would cost roughly £2bn as part of TfSE’s Strategic […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
