Stonebond Properties acquires 9.8 acres to deliver 202 homes

Housing developer Stonebond Properties, in partnership with housing association Settle, has completed the purchase of a 9.8-acre site on a new 650-acre urban village development next to Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire. The site will provide 202 homes, with 70% of them being delivered as additional affordable homes, a mixed tenure parcel combining 2-, 3- and […]

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Nissan plans for £1.7bn Gigafactory in Sunderland

Nissan are set to announce plans for a £1.7bn Gigafactory set to be located in Sunderland. The Japanese car manufacturer is in the final stages of talks to build the ‘gigafactory’, which is expected to be up and running by 2024 and could make at least 200,000 batteries for electric vehicles each year. The firm, […]

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£200m Leicester Railway Station regeneration project proposed

People across Leicester are being called on for their input into a major new plan setting out transport and travel priorities for the city for the next 15 years, including a £200m regeneration project for Leicester Railway Station and a future workplace parking levy. The draft Leicester Transport Plan has been drawn up, focusing on […]

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Equinor to triple UK hyrdogen output with world’s biggest hyrdogen plant planned

Norway’s state oil company Equinor will triple its UK hydrogen output, after setting out plans to build the world’s biggest hydrogen production plant with carbon capture and storage technology near Hull. Equinor plans to produce clean-burning “blue hydrogen” to supply the Keadby gas power plant in Lincolnshire, owned by energy company SSE, making it the […]

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CBRE hires Andrew Hulme from BNP Paribas Real Estate

Global real estate advisor, CBRE has today announced the appointment of Andrew Hulme as an Executive Director, within its UK Investment Properties team. Andrew has a wealth of experience in the retail sector having been made an equity partner at Strutt & Parker when he was 32, then most recently at BNP Paribas Real Estate […]

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Panattoni boosts speculative programme with 715,000 scheme

Panattoni, the largest industrial real estate developer in Europe, today announced it was working up plans to develop its biggest-ever speculative logistics building in the UK, a 630,000 sq ft facility in Yorkshire. The 630,000 sq ft facility will be built along with a smaller 85,000 sq ft facility by junction 1 of the M18 […]

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