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Developments and Lettings News 2007
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Dawn Rogers  has been appointed manager of the Innovation Centre at Evolution Park, Blackburn, one of two buildings being developed by St Modwen in partnership with Blackburn with Darwin Borough Council. The Innovati...


Innovation Centre, the landmark building at the junction of the Bristol Road and Longbridge Lane on Longbridge Technology Park, the catalyst for the long-term regeneration of the vast former MG Rover site, was formally opened today by Li...


BLDS Couriers has acquired the first of the small industrial units that St Modwen has speculatively developed in the latest phase on the 79-acre Hilton Business Park, South Derbyshire, which is part of the 260-acre mixed use project on t...


St Modwen¹s Leeds office has handed over a 37,000 sq ft self-storage unit for Ready Steady Store,  on a two-acre site next to Wheatley Hall Retail Centre, Doncaster, within 11 months of discussions commencing between the partie...


St Modwen, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, has completed the £25 million 430,000 sq ft distribution warehouse for adidas at Trafford Park, Manchester. The facility, which occupies a ten-acre site fron...


Homebase, the UK¹s second largest home improvements retailer, is nearing completion of its fit-out at St Modwen's recently completed Bridge Retail Park, Runcorn, Cheshire. The 30,000 sq ft store includes a 10,000 sq f...


Prestige car marque Lexus is to become the latest car dealership to locate on the popular Trentham Lakes Business Park, Stoke-on-Trent. Developer Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties...


Planning consent  has been obtained by St Modwen for a further phase of industrial units on Enterprise Court, the extension of the successful 30-acre Wigan Enterprise Park where more than 30  companies are now located. ...


St Modwen Properties PLC (St Modwen) signed the Development Agreement this week with Arun District Council that marks the first step forward in the delivery of its £100m regeneration of two key town centre sites in Bognor R...


Frankie & Benny¹s  is to open a 130-seater restaurant at the main entrance to the Trentham Estate, North Staffordshire, the highly successful 750-acre visitor destination being developed by Trentham Leisure, a joint venture...


Vodafone UK  has agreed terms for an 80,000 sq ft state-of-the-art 850-seat contact centre at Etruria Valley, the  high profile business park being developed in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent  by Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration, ...


More than one million sq ft of redundant industrial buildings on some 37 acres of the former Goodyear tyre factory site, Wolverhampton, will be demolished by St Modwen, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, to make way for a ..


St. Modwen Properties PLC has obtained planning consent for its next scheme in Sheffield in the Holbrook industrial area, shortly after the completion of its multi-phase Shepcote Lane development. Consent has been obtaine...


Builders¹ merchant E H Smith has invested in the regeneration of Longbridge through the acquisition from St Modwen Properties, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, of the former MG Sports and Racing Building at the Cofton ...


Medway Court, which provides a further 38,000 sq ft (3,530 sq m) of business space has recently been completed on Cranfield Technology Park, which St Modwen is developing in conjunction with landowner Cranfield University. ...


St Modwen has signed an agreement to develop a 165,000 sq ft (15,328 sq m) distribution centre for Nisbets, a catering equipment supplier, on the 55-acre Access 18, at Avonmouth, Bristol, and begin construction this month. <br ...


A redundant railway bridge is being used by St Modwen through Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration, its joint venture with Stoke City Council, to complete a new pedestrian and cycle link to connect the Etruria Valley Business Park area t...


St. Modwen, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, is pleased to announce that Steve Prosser who has been Regional Manager of St. Modwen¹s Leeds office for the past two years has been promoted to Regional Director. <b...


Another milestone on the road to developing the £10 million Venture Fields leisure centre project in Widnes, has been reached. Detailed planning consent has been granted to allow Widnes Regeneration Ltd, the joint ve...


St Modwen Properties PLC, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, welcomed Beverley Hughes MP, Minister for the North West, to its flagship development at Finsley Gate, Burnley. The 7 acre development straddles the ...


Another phase of development by St Modwen of the 46-acre Coombs Wood Business Park, Halesowen, has just been completed. Two of the units in the 13,000 sq ft phase of small offices, Coombs Wood Court, have been sold to loca...


Residents of Bognor Regis are being asked by St Modwen Developments to get involved in a major transport and travel habits survey starting in the next couple of weeks. The survey forms part of an extensive research and consultation progr...


Six of the nine units in the first phase of St Modwen¹s Henley Business Park, Normandy, near Guildford, have now been sold or let. The latest occupier is Unico Components Ltd, who supply fittings for the furniture mar...


Work is due to begin later this month on the demolition of the former Bull Engineering unit in Maxted Road, Hemel Hempstead, to make way for the development by Key Property Developments , the joint venture between St Modwen Properties a...


More than 60,000 sq ft of space out of the total of some 90,000 sq ft has been let at Hannibal House, the newly refurbished office building above the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, London, giving a major boost to the local area.<...


St Modwen Developments is seeking to create up to 300 jobs by the development of nearly 75,000 sq ft of manufacturing and distribution buildings in the £5.5 million first phase of The Cofton Centre, Longbridge, construction of whic...


Demolition of the former Vulcan Works at Newton-le-Willows, where rail locomotives were once built, is making way for a £100 million urban village development by Key Property Investments (KPI) and Ashtenne Land Ltd (Ashtenne), whic...


Key Property Developments, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties PLC and Salhia Real Estate Company of Kuwait, has secured £1.1 million ERDF gap funding for the development of 57,100 sq ft of industrial buildings at Stone...


Almost half the first phase of St Modwen¹s Prescot Business Park, Knowsley, is in solicitors hands as  construction of  40,300 sq ft  of mixed business space nears completion. The 12-acre business pa...


The future of one of the most prominent and well-known sites in Stoke is now secured. Following last month¹s approval by Stoke City Council, outline planning consent has been granted for St Modwen Properties PLC to press ahead with ...


The first new-build development on the former Thurleigh airfield site in Bedfordshire which St Modwen acquired from the Ministry of Defence in 1996, is scheduled to begin in January. Planning consent for five workshop/ware...


After a slow start local businesses are seeing the attractions of taking new, state-of-the-art premises at Heron Business Park, part of Widnes Waterfront Economic Development Zone. Three more units, all of 3,321 sq ft, ha...


St Modwen, the owner of the former Central Engineer¹s Depot at Long Marston, near Stratford-upon-Avon, is to unveil plans for the future redevelopment of the 470-acre site at public exhibitions this month. Together wi...


KPI Properties, the joint venture partnership between St Modwen Properties PLC and Salhia Real Estate Co, has submitted a detailed planning application for 162,000 sq.ft of office and light industrial accommodation on its 10-acre site in...


St Modwen, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, has spent over £8 million to acquire four industrial estates in Merseyside, initially to support the Great Homer Street scheme. The four industrial estates, w...


A new multi-million pound 6,000 capacity stadium for Worcester City FC is to be developed by leading regeneration specialists St. Modwen Properties PLC, on ...


A 35,000 sq ft Innovation Centre, targeted at new and fledgling enterprises, will form the centrepiece of the £7.5 million first phase of Evolution Park, Blackburn, which St Modwen, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist,...


The major redevelopment proposal for the regeneration of Bedford¹s town centre has been given the go-ahead by Bedford Borough Council¹s Planning Committee. Councillors voted unanimously in support of the Bedford ...


Following the merger of Bournemouth Teaching PCT and Poole PCT, 20,000 sq ft of modern office accommodation at Canford House, Discovery Court Business Centre, Poole, is to become the headquarters of the newly created Bournemouth and Po...


The next steps in procuring an entertainment provision for Bognor Regis, as part of the development of the Regis Centre site by preferred developers St Modwen, were agreed yesterday (Monday 24 September). The Bognor Regis ...


St Modwen has sold the 18,750 sq ft new high-bay warehouse just completed for national paper distributor Antalis on the 55-acre Access 18, Avonmouth, Bristol, to Royal Liver for £1.922 million at an initial yield of 5.71%. ...


St Modwen, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialists, has exchanged a letting agreement with East & North Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust to relocate into the first phase of the £100 million Hatfield Town Centre regenera...


St. Modwen, which owns the former Royal Doulton site at Nile Street, Burslem is unveiling its plans for the future of the site at a public exhibition in Burslem Town Centre on Friday September 14. The plans which have been...


Betterspecs, a well-established local opticians, is to relocate next month into temporary premises within Wembley Central while St Modwen Properties and joint venture partners Rotch Property Group, proceed with its £75 million mixe...


Widnes Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties PLC, and Halton Borough Council, has acquired the 12-acre former Croda Chemicals site in Gorsey Lane, Widnes, which was closed approximately 18 months ago. <b...


Six of the nine units in the current £2.4 million speculative phase of St Modwen Developments’ 16-acre Walsall Enterprise Park development have gone ’under offer’ within weeks of construction starting. <br ...


Gary Morris, Development Director for St Modwen comments: "As we move towards the final conclusion of the Development Agreement with Arun District Council, we feel it is important to confirm the next key stages of the...


The start of the £100 million regeneration of Hatfield Town Centre has moved a major step closer following the exchange of an agreement for Royal Mail to relocate its sorting office from the existing town centre site to new facili...


Netstore plc, a leader in the field of mid-market IT Managed Services and IT Security, has set up a regional office in the Innovation Centre on Longbridge Technology Park, Birmingham. The 25-strong regional team has relo...


Paragon Automotive, the UK¹s largest volume vehicle processing company for rental, contract hire companies and manufacturers, has expanded its operation on Thurleigh Airfield Business Park, Bedfordshire, by agreeing terms with the d...


St Modwen has pre-let 30,445 sq ft in the second phase of distribution / industrial units now under construction on Quedgeley West Business Park, Gloucester. A currently undisclosed national company will later this year occupy on a 15 ye...


St Modwen Properties plc, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, has launched the latest phase of its £100 million regeneration of Wythenshawe Town centre, with the opening of a new Asda food store. The ..


Auto-mate Systems Ltd, a leading importer, distributor and installer of automatic gates and barriers, has acquired the first of eight new industrial units that Key Property Investments Ltd, (KPI) the joint venture between St Modwen Prope...


Primark is to take over the vacant flagship store in The Malls Shopping Centre, Basingstoke, which was formerly occupied by Allders. The award-winning retailer has exchanged contracts with Key Property Investments Ltd, the...


Norton & Proffitt, the joint development between St Modwen and Goold Estates, which is undertaking the £90 million St Matthew¹s Quarter regeneration scheme in the centre of Walsall, is today (Mon) taking stock and planning...


The Board of St Modwen has noted with regret today’s decision by the London Borough of Southwark (“Southwark”) to select Lend Lease rather than Key Property Investments (“KPI”) as its preferred development p...


Offices with impressive views across the South Downs and English Channel, which are expected to attract new and expanding businesses wanting their own front door, are to be built on St Modwen¹s successful Woodingdean Business Park a...


Work is due to start shortly on the development of a new Audi car dealership on Trentham Lakes, Stoke-on-Trent, following the completion of a deal between developer Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration Ltd and Volkswagen Group (UK) Ltd on behalf ...


Fourteen new industrial/warehousing buildings are to be built on St Modwen¹s 20-acre Queensway Business Park in Telford, following the refurbishment and sub-division of the former Mitutoya building into an office unit and four indus...


Further positive steps have been taken towards the regeneration of Bognor Regis after key conditions, regarding developments to the Regis and Hothamton sites, were approved at a Full Council meeting last night. Members una...


A new 118,000 sq ft Asda superstore which anchors the first phase of the £40 million St Matthew¹s Quarter regeneration scheme in the centre of Walsall has opened with the creation of 500 jobs. The opening marks...


Planning consent for a  £100 million urban village comprising 630 homes, a local centre  and enhanced sports facilities  has been granted to Key Property Investments (KPI) and Ashten...


Development of a £10 million family-orientated leisure centre designed to become one of the North West¹s leading entertainment destinations, is to be started in Widnes in October. The Venture Fields leisure c...


SWaltham Forest Council has selected St Modwen Developments Ltd, a leading town centre developer and regeneration specialist to take forward work on the Arcade site in Walthamstow. The recommendation to select St Modwen ...


Regeneration specialists St Modwen are planning to begin the £70 million redevelopment of the former Meaford Power Station site at Stone, Staffordshire, later this year to create a major regional business park that will provide the...


Locally-based Acclimatise Ltd is the latest occupier to take premises on the successful 400-acre Trentham Lakes development in Stoke-on-Trent. The company, which provides heating and air-conditioning equipment to the comme...


St Modwen is planning a £100 million major mixed use redevelopment of Syngenta¹s former agro-chemicals plant at Yalding, near Maidstone. The proposals will release the brownfield site for housing and employment development ...


Up to 25 years¹ supply of mine gas from the former colliery workings at Trentham Lakes, Stoke-on-Trent, is to be extracted for generating up to four megawatts of electricity into the national grid, equivalent to supplying 4,000 h...


Former offices of train manufacturers Alstom at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, are to be converted to private apartments. Key Property Investments, the joint venture partnership between St Modwen Properties PLC and Salhia Rea...


Regeneration specialists St Modwen are forging ahead with the next phase of the creation of Pegasus Business Park, Hillington, Glasgow, by refurbishing a further 264,000 sq ft (24,526 sq m) of industrial accommodation to meet demand.<br ...


St Modwen has entered into a joint venture agreement with AXA Sun Life PLC to undertake the £100 million redevelopment of the 63-acre Taunton Trading Estate, Norton Fitzwarren, to create 550 new homes and 170,000 sq ft (15,793 sq m...


The Board of St Modwen is pleased to announce that the planning committee of Newport City Council has resolved to grant outline planning consent for the Group’s proposals for the transformation of a 600-acre former steelworks site ...


The £80 million redevelopment of Farnborough town centre began this week with the start of a demolition programme to remove 1960s shops and flats. More than 100,000 sq ft of outdated retail and residential accommodat...


Another milestone was reached in St Modwen’s long-running redevelopment, in association with Corus plc, of the former Coombs Wood steelworks at Halesowen, West Midlands, with the last distribution unit on the 46-acre Coombs Wood Bu...


Strong occupier interest in St Modwen’s industrial/distribution development at Henley Business Park, Normandy, near Guildford, has led to the letting of one unit to Aria UK Ltd and the sale of three units to Docusave Ltd, all of wh...


Peter Rudd has joined St Modwen as a development surveyor in its Birmingham office and one of his principal tasks will be to source new development opportunities in the East Midlands. He was previously land director of Har...


Asda has commenced its £8 million transformation of the former Co-op foodstore in the Wythenshawe, South Manchester, shopping centre owned by St Modwen, into a 60,000 sq ft (5,574 sq m) state-of-the-art superstore. T...


Outline planning consent for Liverpool’s ‘most ambitious suburban regeneration scheme for decades’ - Great Homer Street - has been endorsed by Government Minister Ruth Kelly’s Department of Communities and Local G...


The partners responsible for the Coed Darcy redevelopment of the former oil refinery site at Llandarcy have named St. Modwen Developments Ltd as the preferred developer for the 1000 acre (400 hectare) site just off the M4 near Neath.<br ...


Construction of one of the largest speculative industrial/ distribution schemes undertaken in Gloucester in recent years is underway at Quedgeley West Business Park, with completion scheduled this autumn. A total of 120,00...


St Modwen Developments Ltd has started construction on a 45,000 sq ft warehouse at Walsall Enterprise Park for G H Stafford, a leather goods supplier, which is to relocate to the 16-acre park in the autumn. At the same tim...


St Modwen Ventures has agreed to build and sell a 37,000 sq ft (3,437 sq m) self-storage unit for Ready Steady Store on a two-acre site in Wheatley Hall Road, Doncaster for £3.18 million. Detailed planning co...


St Modwen has made major progress on another of the challenging mixed-use regeneration schemes for which it is obtaining an enviable reputation. It has just obtained planning consent for a £30 million scheme at the W...


St Modwen Developments Ltd is seeking planning consent to develop a range of industrial units on the former car storage site at The Cofton Centre, Longbridge, Birmingham, to meet the demand from businesses wanting to relocate to the area...


St Modwen Developments Ltd is seeking planning consent to develop a range of industrial units on the former car storage site at The Cofton Centre, Longbridge, Birmingham, to meet the demand from businesses wanting to relocate to the area...


Key Property Investments (KPI) and Rushmoor Borough Council have signed the agreements which give the green light to the long awaited £80 million re-development of Farnborough town centre. Since KPI, the joint venture betwee...


St Modwen Developments Ltd has acquired the last plot of employment land available for development on the former Cow Lane opencast coalmine site at Holbrook, Sheffield, from Sheffield City Council for £1.15 million. ...


Nearly 10,000 trees which are being planted by Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties and Stoke-on-Trent City Council, to landscape the new A50 junction will also make a significant long-term contribu...


Key Property Investments (KPI) and Rushmoor Borough Council have signed the agreements which give the green light to the long awaited £80 million re-development of Farnborough town centre. Since KPI, the joint ve...


Nearly 10,000 trees which are being planted by Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties and Stoke-on-Trent City Council, to landscape the new A50 junction will also make a significant long-term contr...


Key Properties Ltd, a joint venture between St Modwen Properties plc and Salhia Real Estate of Kuwait, has agreed to sell the headquarters/distribution building it is developing for adidas at Trafford Park, Manchester, to the National...


A 150,000 sq ft (13,935 sq m) distribution warehouse on Centre 38, Barton-under-Needwood, near Burton-on-Trent, has been sold to Close Brothers for £9.5 million. The unit was developed by Barton Business Park Ltd, a joint ventur...


The new 118,000 sq ft superstore for Asda which anchors the first phase of the £40 million St Matthew’s Quarter regeneration scheme in the centre of Walsall, has been handed over by Norton & Proffitt Developments Ltd, ...


Gala Bingo has exchanged agreements for a bingo club on the first floor above the proposed new Sainsbury store in the £80 million Farnborough Town Centre scheme which Key Property Investments (KPI), the joint venture company bet...


Following the granting of planning permission, St Modwen Properties PLC is preparing an early summer start on the 170,000 sq ft (15,793 sq m) first phase development of Melton Park, North Ferriby, Hull - East Yorkshire’s premier...


A 43,650 sq ft (4,055 sq m) former warehouse on Queensway Business Park, Telford, is being refurbished by Redman Heenan Properties, the investment subsidiary of St Modwen Properties PLC and split into four business units of around 10,...


St Modwen Properties PLC, one of the country’s leading regeneration specialists, has completed the purchase of 53 acres of surplus land at Jaguar Engineering Centre, Whitley, Coventry, for the creation of a high-class business p...


Four speculatively developed industrial buildings are proposed in the first phase of Stonebridge Park, a major new 46-acre ‘gateway’’ business park fr...


A £50 million project by St Modwen Properties PLC through its joint venture company Key Property Investments, to redevelop 100 acres of the former GEC industrial estates in Rugby- the largest ever brownfield development in the b...


A planning application for the first phase redevelopment of a former Worcester railway goods yard site into a major business park has been submitted by St Modwen Properties PLC which acquired the 17-acre site last year. <...


Widnes Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties PLC and Halton Borough Council, has sold two of the first phase of industrial warehouse units completed on Heron Business Park, part of the Widnes Waterfront Econ...


An outline planning application to redevelop Victoria Ground, Stoke City’s former football stadium, for homes, has been submitted to Stoke-on-Trent City Council by St Modwen Developments Ltd, following lengthy consultations with...


Andrea Fullard has been appointed Manager of the Longbridge Innovation Centre, one of the two buildings being developed by St Modwen Properties PLC in the first £15 mil. phase of Longbridge Technology Park. The 45,...


St Modwen Developments Ltd has just completed the  64,144 sq ft  (5.959 sq m) first phase of industrial/warehouse units on its 25-acre Henley Business Park, Normandy, near Guildford, and let one of the nine units to Bishops ...


St Modwen Developments has entered into a development agreement with Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council to develop a 15-acre greenfield site into a  high quality business park to serve medical, science and knowledge-based busi...


Manchester, March 7th:  The adidas Group today marked the start of construction work on it’s new 33,444 sq m (360,000 sq ft) warehousing and distribution centre at Trafford Park, Manchester with an official ‘ground-br...


St Modwen has just completed a £1.95 million speculative phase of industrial, distribution and business units at Walsall Enterprise Park, and has already pre-sold three of the seven warehouse units. The latest ph...


PRESS INFORMATION Another major step has been taken in the planned £ 40 million redevelopment of Dudley Zoo and Castle - the Black Country’s biggest-ever regeneration leisure project O...


Medway Council is embarking on an historic partnership with one of Britain’s leading regeneration specialists and property developers that will potentially deliver a massive boost to Medway’s £1 billion regeneration ...


A speculative development of some 100,000 sq ft of  industrial and distribution space is to begin this month  at  St Modwen Developments’ Centre 500 scheme at Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme with Bluestone as...


More business units to help to meet a shortage of such accommodation in the Burton-on-Trent area are being built on the last 4.2 acres of the 93-acre Stretton Business Park by St Modwen in a joint venture with the former Blue Circle c...


St Modwen has signed up the first occupier for its 55 acre Access 18 scheme at Avonmouth, Bristol. National paper distributor Antalis is to relocate its regional office and distribution centre from Cribbs Causeway, Bristol...


Construction is well underway on the 100,000 sq ft first phase of Prescot Business Park, Knowsley, which when fully developed will create 19,973 sq m ( 215,000 sq ft ) of light industrial and business floorspace and generate nearly 600 j...


St Modwen Properties PLC, through its joint venture company Key Property Investments, has clinched one of the biggest recent deals in the North West, with the pre-let of a 33,444 sq m (360,000 sq ft) distribution centre on Trafford Park...


American-owned fashion retailer TK Maxx is to anchor the new Wembley Central Shopping Centre, a £60 million regeneration by Sowcrest Ltd, a joint venture between St Modwen Properties PLC and Rotch Property Group, which will feat...


An ambitious multi-million pound scheme to transform the Castle Hill and Zoo area of Dudley to rejuvenate and reposition the town as a high-profile regional tourist attraction, breathing new life into high street shops and businesses, ha...


St Modwen Developments Ltd, Bedford Borough Council’s development partner for the regeneration of a significant quarter of Bedford town centre, known as Bedford Town Centre West, has submitted a formal planning application for the ...