Built Environment Networking Blog: Planning and Property News

£150m facility set for Cornwall as Blue Abyss plans ‘worlds biggest and deepest’ pool

The world’s biggest and deepest pool for testing the latest underwater technology, helping advanced subsea robotics and even training astronauts is being planned at Cornwall Airport Newquay as it continues to see growth in the space related sector. Blue Abyss, a £150m facility, will be the world’s leading extreme environment research, test and training centre […]

Posted by: Nathan Spencer

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£1bn Golden Valley Development selects development partner JV

The Golden Valley Development has selected HBD X Factory, a joint venture between UK property developer HBD and the international innovation campus developer Factory, to be their preferred development partner. The Golden Valley Development will create up to 12,000 new jobs, 3,700 homes and 2 million square feet of commercial space as part of a […]

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£300m development portfolio – Aitch Group diversify in challenging market with new land sought

In 2022, property developer Aitch Group spend £70 million on land across four London boroughs including Brent, Waltham Forest, Greenwich and Southwark. This added a further £300 million (GDV) to the Aitch Group development portfolio. With immediate funds available, Aitch Group are now seeking more land for development in 2023 and onwards – specifically sites […]

Posted by: Mya Driver

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£31M proposed to Revitalise Port Glasgow Estate

The defunct Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow is set to undergo a £31 million transformation as per the revised masterplan recently revealed. Inverclyde councillors are now faced with the task of approving these fresh redevelopment proposals, which have been refined since their initial presentation in October 2018. The struggle to secure control over privately-owned […]

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£400m Manchester city centre regeneration scheme get green light

MCR Property Group has received the go-ahead for the regeneration of the former Rochdale Road Gas Works which they’ll transform into 1,200 new apartments and townhouses. The 6.6-acre site sits within the £4bn Victoria North masterplan forming part of The New Town community – with the overall vision to transform over 380-acres of city centre […]

Posted by: Nathan Spencer

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136-acre Skegness Gateway urban extension revealed

Plans to transform Skegness with the development of a sustainable urban extension to the west of the town have today (19 May) been revealed. The proposals for Skegness Gateway, to be the subject of a Local Development Order (LDO) with East Lindsey District Council later this year, outline a scheme that will provide hundreds of […]

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14-hectare science and innovation park planned by Legal & General and University of Oxford

Legal & General is to fund and deliver a new innovation district with the University of Oxford, extending the existing Begbroke Science Park across an adjacent 14-hectare site.  The first phase of the scheme will bring forward new teaching facilities for the universities Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences departments, as well as providing space to […]

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Ainscough Strategic Land brings 400-acre new village to market

A 400-acre rural estate in Swindon with outline planning permission for a new village of 2,500 dwellings is being brought to market. Lotmead Farm lies within the designated New Eastern Villages (NEV) area and is being offered for sale by Ainscough Strategic Land on behalf of the landowner, the Parry Family Trust, with Avison Young […]

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