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Latest stories hitting the Construction, Building and Property press:
New hotel at Dundee harbour
Forth Ports (0131 554 6473) is set to announce plans to build a four-star hotel at Dundee harbour, as part of the £30 million City Quay project.
UK Business Park (15 August, 2000)
Redevelopment of holiday camp
Scarborough Borough Council (01723 372 351) is considering plans from Crownville Estates for the £25 million redevelopment of the former Butlin's holiday camp at Filey, including 300 holiday homes, sports facilities, hotel, conference centre and shops.
UK Business Park (15 August, 2000)
Leisure centre in Hove
Citygrove Leisure (020 7352 8750) is planning to build a £30 million leisure facility in Hove, including multiplex cinema, bars, restaurants and sports centre.
UK Business Park (15 August, 2000)
Minerva plans shopping centre
Minerva (020 7535 1000) is planning to build a £700 million shopping centre in Croydon, including 110 shops and an Allders department store.
UK Business Park (15 August, 2000)
Greggs expands
Greggs (01912 817 721) is planning to open 60 new takeaway food shops by next year, as part of a strategy to expand its chain from 1,100 outlets to 1,400 by 2006.
UK Business Park (15 August, 2000)
Tesco superstore in Stockport
Tesco (01992 632 222) is seeking permission to build a £12 million superstore in Stockport.
UK Business Park (15 August, 2000)
Cannons expands
Cannons (020 8971 9720) has announced plans to build 29 more fitness clubs by 2003 at a cost of £90 million, including four in the Netherlands.
UK Business Park (15 August, 2000)
Shopping centre in Didcot
South Oxfordshire District Council (01491 823 000) is to purchase land in the centre of Didcot for the development of a £30 million shopping centre, which will include a superstore, more than 20 shops, a cinema, library and a theatre complex.
UK Business Park (4 August, 2000)
Housing for the NHS
Unite Group (0117 907 8100) has announced a £33 million plan to create housing for the NHS at two locations in East London and at St Bartholomew's hospital.
UK Business Park (4 August, 2000)
Council plans National Ceramics Centre
Torridge District Council (01237 476 711) is looking at possible site in Bideford to set a national ceramics centre, which will include a museum, a national research database and education facilities.
UK Business Park (4 August, 2000)
Somerfield to develop distribution site
Somerfield (0117 935 9359) is planning to develop a new distribution site in St Helens.
UK Business Park (4 August, 2000)
Prudential to redevelop Amdale Centre
Prudential (020 7583 1415) has announced plans for the £100 million redevelopment of the Amdale centre in Manchester, which will provide an additional 300,000 sq.ft of retail space.
UK Business Park (4 August, 2000)
New visitor centre in Cockermouth
Jennings Brothers (01900 823 214) is planning to create a visitor centre at its brewery in Cockermouth.
UK Business Park (28 July, 2000)
British Waterways investing
British Waterways (01923 226 422) is planning to invest more than £100 million in six projects to open up a further 100 miles of the canal network, including a new stretch between Bedford and Milton Keynes that will provide freight access to East Anglia.
UK Business Park (28 July, 2000)
New superstores in Ilkeston
Tesco (01992 632 222) and Safeway (020 8848 8744) have both submitted plans to Erewash Borough Council for the construction of superstores in Ilkeston.
UK Business Park (28 July, 2000)
Millennium Dome future
Nomura International (020 7929 2366) has announced plans for the £800 million transformation of London's Millennium Dome into an amusement park, and its consortium with Sony has been selected as the government's preferred bidder.
UK Business Park (28 July, 2000)
Liverpool to become world-class city with £1.5bn facelift
The regeneration company Liverpool Vision has unveiled a £1.5bn revival project that aims to make Liverpool a "world-class city" within a decade.
AJPlus (27 July, 2000)
Computer giants to invest £200m in Ireland
Cisco Systems is to build a new £100 million 50,000 sq ft. manufacturing facility in Dublin as part of an European expansion drive. In a separate development IBM has announced that it is to build a new £100 million data centre. The centre will be an extension to the company's campus in Mulhuddart. Recently Intel announced plans to build a £2 billion microchip manufacturing plant near Leixlip.
AJPlus (24 July, 2000)
New detention centres
The Home Office is planning to spend an extra £100 million to build three new detention centres for asylum seekers.
The Guardian (24 July, 2000)
Park at Deep Pits, Sheffield
Sheffield City Council (0114 272 6444) is to create a £4 million park at Deep Pits, in a 10 year scheme.
UK Business Park (21 July, 2000)
Plans for south Wales scheme
Wyn Holloway, the owner of Merthyr Tydfil's football club, is drawing up plans for the redevelopment of a 580 acres site in the south Wales town as a £150 million mixed-use leisure scheme. The proposals include retail facilities, a football stadium, multiplex cinema, swimming pool, sports village and water front restaurants and bars. There will also be a major office element and a 150-unit residential scheme.
Egi News (21 July, 2000)
Art gallery allocates £20m for improvements
The National Gallery (020 7839 3321) will spend £20 million over the next four years to add new entrances and convert most of the ground floor to public space.
The Daily Telegraph (21 July, 2000)
New shopping centre in Northampton
Legal & General (020 7528 6200) is planning a £300 million shopping centre development in Northampton, including 50 new shops and a department store. A planning application is expected to be submitted later this year.
UK Business Park (21 July, 2000)
Eurostar refurbishment
Eurostar (020 8922 6080) is to spend £20 million refurbishing its trains and passenger facilities over the next three years.
UK Business Park (21 July, 2000)
£150m extension planned for Croydon's Whitgift Centre
Plans for a major expansion of the Whitgift Shopping Centre, Croydon, has been submitted to the London Borough of Croydon by the joint owners of the centre. Barclays Property Investment Ltd (020 7747 1700) manage the centre for seven institutional investors.
AJPlus (21 July, 2000)
Land development in Stoke-on-Trent
St Modwen Properties (01543 572 166) and British Waterways have revealed plans to redevelop land next to Stoke-on-Trent's canal system, as part of the £50 million Festival Waters project.
UK Business Park (21 July, 2000)
Skyscraper in Leeds
St James Securities (0113 245 8855) and Landmark Development Projects have announced plans to build a £70 million 23-storey twin-tower skyscraper in Leeds, including hotel, offices and apartments.
UK Business Park (21 July, 2000)
New hotel in Londonderry
Great Southern Hotels (00353 (0) 1214 4800) is planning to build a £12 million 126-bedroom hotel in Londonderry.
UK Business Park (21 July, 2000)
Transport 2010 - The 10 Year Plan
The 10 Year Transport Plan can be found on the DETR web site. Go www.detr.gov.uk/trans2010/index.htm.
Copies of the full document are available from:
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions,
Publications Sales Centre,
Unit 21,
Goldthorpe Industrial Estate,
Goldthorpe,
Rotherham S63 9BL
Telephone: 01709 891318
as well as being available from The Stationery Office Bookshops.
Construction Leads (21 July, 2000)
Waterfront development in Ipswich
Ipswich Borough Council (01473 262 626) is to consider plans from Beazer Homes for a £50 million development on the town's waterfront, including 500 homes and new commercial and retail space.
UK Business Park (21 July, 2000)
Habitat in hunt for central London HQ
Habitat is looking for a 50,000 sq.ft headquarters in central London with goods transport links. The furniture retailer needs a building or development site suitable for 30,000 sq.ft of offices and a 20,000 sq.ft flagship store. Catella Property Consultants Ltd (020 7915 6800) is advising Habitat.
Egi News (20 July, 2000)
Debenhams to add 11 new stores
Debenhams (020 7408 4444) plans to open another 11 department stores over the next four years. It will open in Carlisle, Sunderland, Milton Keynes, Uxbridge and Oxford over the next year. It is also planning branches in Newcastle and East Kilbride. Debenhams has decided not to bid for any of the 109 stores that C&A has put on the market.
Financial Times (19 July, 2000)
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