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Developments and Lettings News 2008
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St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has secured further occupier investment at Langford Mead - its £100 million redevelopment of a former industrial estate and MoD site in Taunton, Somerset - where West Coun...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, is to transform one of Sunderland’s major strategic development zones into a £10 million mixed-use development which will provide new jobs and much needed family hom...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has submitted a planning application to North Hertfordshire District Council, to redevelop a 4.5 acre former power station site into a 77,000 sq ft Business Park, Letchworth, He...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist has signed up discount supermarket Aldi for a 17,000 sq ft foodstore, on its £150 million urban community scheme, Wolverhampton, West Midlands. The new signi...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has sold a 2,556 sq ft unit, at its 20 acre Queensway Business Park – Telford’s largest new industrial estate - to Clarke’s Safety Mirrors Ltd. <br ...


Sowcrest, the joint venture between St. Modwen and Rotch, continues to defy market conditions with Wembley Central – its £90 million redevelopment project in the heart of Wembley Town Centre - where it has pre-let over 15,700...


St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has commenced work on the regeneration of its major landholdings in Farnborough town centre. One o...


West Lancs District Council is preparing to make a strong case for Skelmersdale at the Public Inquiry into controversial plans to build a massive new retail development at Kirkby, along with a new Everton football stadium, hotel and offi...


BP has selected St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, as preferred developer for a 2,500 acre portfolio of brownfield sites situated across South Wales, Scotland, the Midlands and South East England. ...


Network Rail announcement on Cotswold Line a positive contribution Developers backing the Middle Quinton ECO-town say they are confident of being able to meet the sustainability requirements identified for the site in a Government...

Longbridge
04 Nov 2008

The implementation of the Rating (Empty Properties Act) 2007 in April of this year is already causing major disruption across the business and property community both regionally and nationally. Here Mike Murray, Longbridge senior develop...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has been selected as the preferred developer for the former RAF Locking site, now known as Locking Parklands. The selection of St. Modwen has been made by the jo...


Construction work began today (October 23) on Stoke-on-Trent’s largest new office building - a £30 million new call centre for Vodafone UK - which Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration, the joint venture between St. Modwen and Stoke ...


The long-term future for rowing and canoeing on Trentham’s mile-long lake was secured on Thursday (October 16) when trustees of Trentham Watersports Association signed the lease for a new boathouse with representatives of Trentham ...


Subway is to open in Wythenshawe Town Centre, South Manchester, in December, adding to the pre-Christmas retail activity that is scheduled as part of the next completed development phase in St. Modwen’s £100 million regenerat...


Small to medium-sized industrial businesses are defying the current economic climate and moving to St Modwen’s 93,500 sq ft Centre 500 at Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, a new speculative industrial and distribution development w...


A £6 million Sheffield industrial park development by St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has given a further confidence boost to the South Yorkshire property market. Holbrook Enterprise Centr...


Retailers are eagerly lining up to open in the £2.2 million Haletop East extension to Haletop Parade, which is scheduled to open in mid-December as part of St. Modwen’s £100 million regeneration of Wythenshawe Town Cent...


Worcester City FC and developers St. Modwen are today a step closer to submitting the long awaited planning application for he proposed new Nunnery Way stadium, after announcing details of a joint pre-planning public consultation event.<...


Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties and Stoke City Council, is to build new head offices at Festival Court, Etruria Valley, for Hanley Economic Building Society, replacing the society’s ...


St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, is helping the expansion of a logistics company by agreeing to relocate them from one of St Modwen’s Shropshire estates to another. CML Logistics, currentl...


The proponents of the Middle Quinton ECO-town have welcomed two major announcements this week that confirm widespread backing for eco-towns and an urgent need for the affordable new homes they would deliver. The first anno...


Whitley Business Park will next month (November) place Coventry in the forefront of a new era of office development in the West Midlands when St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, completes the first phase of develo...


Medium-sized industrial buildings with extra-large yards - a rare feature in Staffordshire - are attracting keen occupational interest for St. Modwen on its well-established business park, Centre 38, Barton Business Park at Barton-under-...


St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, today launched its landmark Innovation Centre at Evolution Park, Blackburn, with an official opening ceremony, hosted by Jack Straw, MP for Blackburn. Developed i...


St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has made great strides this year in attracting occupiers to its 12-acre Prescot Business Park, Knowsley. The latest businesses to take up space at the Business Par...


VSM Estates, the joint venture between VINCI PLC and St Modwen Properties PLC, achieved another major milestone in the delivery of Project MoDEL this month after receiving a resolution to grant planning permission to redevelop Victoria H...


Aldi, the supermarket chain, has agreed terms with Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration – a joint venture between St Modwen Properties PLC and Stoke City Council – to anchor the District Centre within the 400 acre Trentham Lakes devel...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has been granted planning permission to develop a terrace of six retail units at its eight acre Norton Park District Centre in Stoke-on-Trent. The units, which wi...


Following the launch of the Vision for the Middle Quinton eco-town - a detailed Masterplan document released to Housing Minister, the Rt Hon Caroline Flint MP - developers St Modwen and the Bird Group have outlined the next steps of the ...


30,000 sq ft of office accommodation to be launched on 18 September 2008 St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has completed the latest phase of development – a £7 million scheme, providing...


Middle Quinton ECO-town MEDIA INFORMATION Marking a key stage in the Government’s Eco Town process, the promoters of Middle Quinton, St Modwen and the Bird Group, launched today their detailed, Vision for Middle Quin...


ST MODWEN SUBMITS PLANNING APPLICATION AT COOMBS WOOD For Primary School and Sports & Social Club St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has submitted a planning application to secure the lon...


Demonstrating its commitment to the regeneration of Widnes and Runcorn and its confidence in the area’s commercial property market, Widnes Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties plc and Halton Borough Co...


Cranfield University is to establish a Centre for Vehicle Diagnostic Research on the 80 acre, expanding Cranfield Technology Park which St Modwen is developing in conjunction with the University. St Modwen has let 8,10...


The first anniversary of the Innovation Centre at Longbridge Technology Park in Birmingham was marked by another significant milestone – with the announcement that the 45,000 sq ft building is now 80 per cent let. Th...


……underlining St Modwen’s ongoing investment into Stoke’s business economy The first occupiers have moved on to Fenton Trade Park, the 60,000 sq ft speculative industrial and distribution developm...


St Modwen sells the last plot at successful 16-acre Business Park, Walsall St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has completed its 16 acre Walsall Enterprise Park with the sale of the final building p...


The Hatfield Town Centre Forum was launched last week, (30 July). Representatives from Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, Hatfield Town Council, St Modwen, ASDA, Action Hatfield as well as local retailers and landlords came together to agr...


A multi-million pound investment in public transport could provide an environmentally friendly bus-tram link between Stratford-upon-Avon and Evesham, say the developers of the proposed ECO-town at Middle Quinton. Tony Bird...


Last Wednesday’s (30 July) ECO-town debate with members of Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council has been described as ‘positive and encouraging’ by representatives of St.Modwen and the Bird Group, the developers behind prop...


Plans for a £150m regeneration project in north Liverpool are not in jeopardy, developers said today. Reports have suggested the scheme is under threat following the announcement that negotiations have broken down wi...


St.Modwen and the Bird Group, the proponents of the Middle Quinton ECO-town, have welcomed the fact-finding visit of Housing Minister Caroline Flint MP to Stratford-upon-Avon. “This was the first occasion we have ha...


Plans for development at Bentley Priory, Stanmore, including a new museum commemorating the Battle of Britain and 103 new homes, were approved by Harrow Council’s Strategic Planning Committee yesterday evening. The p...


Energy from waste, gasification of non-recyclable waste and vacuum chutes to dispose of local refuse are all features of the proposed new ECO town at Middle Quinton. The new environmental features, which aim to ensure a ze...


Local buyers struggling to get on the housing ladder will be given a unique opportunity to move into Middle Quinton as part of an innovative proposal made by the developers of the ECO town. Developers St Modwen and the Bir...


St Modwen Properties PLC, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has completed four deals - comprising a total of 44,000 sq ft - in quick succession at its 18 acre Quinton Business Park, Birmingham. The latest is...


St Modwen has been prompted by the success of Trafford Park’s strategic location for distribution companies to market its 10-acre Avro Park within the Manchester complex as a potential site for a ‘big box’....


St Modwen is continuing to attract occupiers to Eastleigh Works, the 47-acre former Alstom site at Campbell Road, Eastleigh, Hampshire, it took control of at the end of last year. Associated Polymer Resources, who recycle ...


Halton Borough Council has granted planning permission for a major new facility for hi-tech businesses and leading-edge science on the Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus, the first step in the crucial next stage of the development...


St Modwen Properties PLC has sold its first offices on the 100-acre mixed-use development Melton Park at North Ferriby, Hull. The 3,000 sq ft unit has been acquired by ICF Group, a commercial finance company specialisin...


Close Trading Companies IHT Fund has acquired two industrial properties, on a long leasehold, for circa £1.4 million from developer, St Modwen Properties PLC. The units form part of the first phase of the developer’s 23 acre ...


The developers of the proposed new ECO town at Middle Quinton have released further details of the plans to provide an integrated, sustainable transport plan for the area. St Modwen and the Bird Group, who are developing ...


On Saturday 12th July, St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, launches the residential element of the regeneration of Farnborough town centre. Commenting on the scheme, Bill Oliver, Chief Executive of...


- Residents invited to contribute to a time capsule marking this historic occasion - To celebrate the launch of Centrus at The Meads - the much-anticipated residential element of the £83 million regeneration of Farnb...


The weekend’s demolition of the Goodyear chimney, by St Modwen properties PLC, will signified the start of a bright future for the former tyre factory site, when all 143,226 bricks of the 55 metre Wolverhampton landmark came down.<...


St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has begun demolishing one of Birmingham’s biggest buildings as part of the £750 million transformation of the former MG Rover site at Longbridge. The 7...


A community art project which is set to bring a splash of colour to the temporary hoardings around Wythenshawe Town Centre was unveiled to the public today. The project, commissioned by developer St Modwen, was undertaken ...


St Modwen has experienced a flurry of activity at phases one and two of its 20 acre Queensway Business Park in Telford. The developer has secured the sale of three industrial units at the Business Park – Telford’s largest new...


Local people will have the opportunity to view proposed plans for the Middle Quinton ‘ECO town’ when the developers host a series of public exhibitions as part of the consultation requirements set out by the Department of Com...


St Modwen Developments, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, is forging ahead with the next step in its regeneration plans for Wythenshawe Town Centre, a promising sign for the long-term redevelopment of the town, in the face ...


Members of the public will have their first opportunity to view detailed plans for the proposed £750 million regeneration of Longbridge, when the UK’s leading regeneration specialist St Modwen stages two exhibitions in the ar...


A leading national leisure operator has been recommended to work with Arun District Council and St Modwen to provide a new top quality entertainment venue in Bognor Regis. Openwide International was recommended by a select...


Morrisons has signed an agreement for a new foodstore which will anchor St Modwen¹s planned Deeside District Centre redevelopment scheme at Connah¹s Quay, Flintshire. £13 million will be invested in th...


Members of several rail groups from around Stratford-Upon-Avon and beyond descended on the site of the proposed new Middle Quinton village to commemorate the imminent departure of a famous old locomotive, and to support the possible rest...


Planet Ice has signed an agreement to operate the ice rink in the £10 million Venture Fields leisure centre project in Widnes. This flagship leisure scheme by Widnes Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture between St Mo...


A 39,000 sq ft cash and carry store for Booker is to be developed on Langford Mead Business Park, Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton, by St Modwen Properties PLC to replace the firm¹s existing store nearby. The store, which ...


Leading UK regeneration specialist St Modwen and Regional Development Agency Advantage West Midlands have today taken a major step towards delivering 10,000 new jobs at Longbridge, and to creating a secure and positive future for local p...


Trafficlink is the latest occupier to sign-up on St Modwen¹s 18-acre Quinton Business Park, Birmingham, adjacent to the M5 Junction 3. The company has agreed to take a 3,660 sq ft ground floor suite on a ten-year l...


Sure Health and Beauty is the latest occupier to base itself at the Eastleigh Works estate in Eastleigh, Hampshire, managed by St Modwen on behalf of estate owners Key Property Investments, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties...


St Modwen Developments Ltd has signed an agreement with Darlington Borough Council to open up 70 acres of land within the Faverdale Employment Area to create a £50 million major industrial park capable of providing 1,500 jobs.<br ...


Wilkinson has signed an agreement with St Modwen to take one of the major stores within the proposed £100 million Hatfield town centre redevelopment scheme. The pre-letting of the 28,000 sq ft store, which will b...


Stoke-on-Trent City Council has given the green light to St Modwen for the regeneration of the historic former Royal Doulton site in Nile Street, Burslem, Stoke. Planning approval was granted by the council's Development C...


After two years of extensive consultation, St Modwen Developments has submitted a detailed planning application for the regeneration of Queens Market, Green Street. The plans for the new Queens Market will allow the market to serve the ...


St Modwen is delighted to announce that Lidl is to open a new store in Edmonton Green Shopping Centre, London, on May 10. The German-owned store chain has taken a double unit totalling approximately 6,000 sq ft within the ...


Fourteen of the 17 studio units on Trentham Business Quarter within Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration's 400-acre Trentham Lakes development have now been sold as companies seek to expand and gain a presence on the high profile scheme.<br /...


Stoke-on-Trent City Council will next week be considering planning applications lodged last November by St. Modwen for the regeneration of the former Royal Doulton site at Nile Street, Burslem. The proposals, which have b...


The Meads shopping centre in Farnborough has reported an increase in footfall over the last three months, despite a dip in numbers at centres nationwide for the same period. Retailers at the shopping centre have also seen ...


Outline planning consent has been granted to St Modwen, the UK's leading regeneration specialist, for the £13 million redevelopment of Fford Llanarth Neighbourhood Centre, Connah's Quay, Flintshire. The existing ce...


Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture partnership between St Modwen Properties PLC and Stoke City Council, has sold two further investments on its 400-acre Trentham Lakes development to a local property investor for a total ...


European Golf Ltd,the market leader for the design and installation of synthetic putting greens, has acquired a 4,000 sq ft industrial unit on St Modwen Properties PLC's 116-acre mixed-use development Melton Park at North Ferriby, Hull.<...


St Modwen has secured planning permission for the development of 51,500 sq ft of offices on its Blythe Vale Business Park on the eastern fringe of Stoke-on-Trent. The first phase scheme is to comprise 18 two-storey self-c...


VSM Estates has submitted plans to secure the future of RAF Bentley Priory to Harrow Council. The submission follows extensive consultation with interested parties and local residents and represents a significant step forward towards es...


Liebig Court, a development comprising 38 one- and two-bedroom apartments and six retail units by Widnes Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties PLC and Halton Borough Council, has been sold to Places for Peo...


Bournville College will relocate to new £84 million premises at Longbridge it was announced today, after the College entered into an agreement with developer St Modwen – the UK’s leading regeneration specialist and the ...


Construction work has started on two of the remaining three plots on Centre 38, at Barton Business Park, Barton-under-Needwood, near Burton-on-Trent, where more than 1,000 people are now employed. Two industrial/warehouse...


The selection of an operator for the proposed 'Entertainment Centre' on the Regis Centre site, part of St Modwen’s £100m regeneration proposals for Bognor Regis, is moving ever closer as detailed analysis of the final submiss...


Feedback from January consultation unveiled St Modwen has published a report prepared by public consultation specialists M & N Communications which analyses the statistics and comments from questionnaire responses rec...


St Modwen and Advantage West Midlands have announced expansion plans for its £100 million Longbridge Technology Park. The UK’s leading regeneration specialist has submitted planning applications for Three and ...


Worcester City FC have exchanged contracts with residential developer Careys New Homes for the sale of the Blue Square North club¹s St George's Lane ground which has been their home for 102 years. The sale of the 4.2...


St Modwen, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, has applied for planning consent for a further phase of development on its popular Access 18 scheme in Avonmouth, Bristol, which will comprise 35,000 sq ft of industrial space.<...


A £8 million indoor leisure destination, The Hive, under construction in Widnes town centre, has attracted Italian/American bar and restaurant chain Frankie & Bennys which will open next year at the entrance to the developmen...


St Modwen has started work on Phase 2 of Queensway Business Park, Telford, to provide a range of smaller industrial units, of which there is a shortage in the Telford area, and has had an early positive response. A third ...


James Timms Transport Ltd has relocated into the last available building on the 24-acre St Modwen¹s Quedgeley East estate, Gloucester. The firm has moved from the nearby 32-acre Quedgeley West Business Park as part ...


Valley Forge (UK) Ltd, has taken a 15-year lease on a new 16,265 sq ft industrial/distribution building on St Modwen's 32-acre Quedgeley West Business Park, Gloucester. Valley Forge, which runs hi-tech training progra...


St Modwen, the U.K's leading regeneration specialist, begins construction work this month on the first phase of Whitley Business Park in Coventry, which when fully developed will have the capacity to generate more than 2,000 new jobs.<...


Fumex Installations, one of the UK's biggest industrial dust, smoke and fume extraction providers , is relocating to St Modwen¹s successful Shepcote Office Village, Sheffield. The firm has taken a ten-year lease ...


Business Link West Midlands has relocated to St Modwen's Quinton Business Park, Birmingham. The business advice agency, which has moved from Brierley Hill, is occupying a 27,000 sq ft three-storey new headquarter buildin...


Construction has started on the next phase of St Modwen's highly popular Trident Business Park, Risley, Warrington, which will provide nearly 55,000 sq ft of industrial space and is expected to be complete by August. Bri...


FARNBOROUGH¹S town centre redevelopment received a major boost on Wednesday night when Key Property Investments (KPI) gave the go ahead for five further shopping units at the heart of the project. Rushmoor Borough Cou...


Leading facilities and energy management provider GSH Group, one of North Staffordshire's biggest success stories, has expanded its accommodation on Etruria Valley Business Park, Stoke-on-Trent , by renting an additional office building ...


Converteam, a world leader in power conversion engineering, has agreed terms with St Modwen Properties, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, for a new 15-year lease on 400,000 sq ft of remodelled existing industrial space being...


A redundant railway bridge on Tolladine Road, Worcester, was removed by crane in a six-hour delicate operation as part of the £20 million development to create Great Western Business Park on the site of the former Tolladine Goods ...


A 119-bed hotel at the main entrance to the 750-acre Trentham Estate, North Staffordshire, has been handed over to Whitbread for final fitting-out as a Premier Inn Hotel and is scheduled to open before Easter. The ..


A 102,000 sq ft distribution warehouse is to be developed by St Modwen on its succesful Quedgeley West Business Park, Gloucester, to store Dyson vacuum cleaners. CM Downton, one of the largest privately-owned transport ...


Three speculative schemes on the 400-acre Trentham Lakes development in Stoke-on-Trent, known as Trentham Office Village, Trentham Business Quarter and Trentham Trade Park, are proving highly successfully in attracting private investors ...


Trentham Shopping Village is blossoming into one of the UK¹s leading tourism and leisure specialist retail centres. Following a highly successful year when Trentham, the popular North Staffordshire visitor destination...


An army of excavators is on site and set to remediate enough soil to fill the Royal Albert Hall more than twice over as the next phase of preparation work gets under way at the former MG Rover site at Longbridge. The exten...


Thirteen of the 22 speculative industrial and distribution units recently completed by leading UK regeneration specialist St Modwen at Centre 500, Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme , have been sold or let. A total of 93,5...


Dreams,  the UK¹s  leading bed specialist company, has completed the line-up in St Modwen¹s Bridge Retail Park, Runcorn, by taking a  9,100 sq ft unit on a 15-year lease at an annual rent  of £15 per s...


St Modwen Developments Ltd, the UK’s leading regeneration company, has formally signed contracts to transform the former oil refinery at Llandarcy in South Wales into the Coed Darcy Urban Village, the first of its kind in Wales. <b...


Safestyle UK, one of the country¹s leading window and double glazing manufacturers, is the latest occupier to choose St Modwen¹s Shepcote Office Village, Sheffield, as its location for a new facility. The firm h...


Demand in North Staffordshire for trade park and the smaller industrial units has prompted St Modwen to seek planning consent to develop 60,000 sq ft of such accommodation at Phoenix Park, Longton, fronting the A50. St Mod...


Work is scheduled to start in February on developing Stonebridge Park, a major 70-acre gateway business park frontring the A580, one of Liverpool¹s main arterial roads, following the granting of detailed planning consent for the fi...


Around 2,200 local people attended a public exhibition last week, hosted by St Modwen, to view their initial concepts for the regeneration of the Regis Centre and Hothamton sites in Bognor Regis town centre. The exhibition...


The development of 80,000 sq ft of high quality industrial accommodation begins this month on the former Rolls Royce site at Hllington, Glasgow, which the UK's leading regeneration specialist St Modwen Properties PLC, acquired two y...


St Modwen, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, is set to begin the first phase of the £20 million Great Western Business Park development in Worcester on the site of the former Tolladine Goods Yard which it acquired f...


Following the signing of the Development Agreement with Arun District Council in December, St Modwen is embarking upon extensive, community-wide public consultation to help inform its proposals for the Regis Centre and Hothamton sites in...


AA Projects, one of the UK's fastest growing construction consultancies, has become the first office occupier at St Modwen Developments' Prescot Business Park, Knowsley, Merseyside. The consultancy, which has relocated fro...


International coffee chain Starbucks has opened in The Malls Shopping Centre, Basingstoke. The 1,600 sq ft shop at Old Basing Mall, has been let on a ten-year lease by Chase and Partners, acting on behalf of the centre..


Key Property Investments, the joint venture between St Modwen Properties PLC and Salhia Real Estate Co., has taken control of a 47-acre former Alstom site at Campbell Road, Eastleigh, Hampshire, following Alstom Tranport¹s decision ...


Waltham Forest Council and St Modwen Properties PLC have signed a development agreement for the regeneration of the former Arcade site in Walthamstow. The agreement is conditional on planning consent being gained and will ...


St Modwen, the UK's leading regeneration specialist, has submitted an outline planning application for the £8 million redevelopment of Fford Llanarth Neighbourhood Centre, Connah¹s Quay, Flintshire, to create a new and vibrant...


i2 Retirement & Financial Planning Ltd has acquired the long leasehold in a two-storey 2,760 sq ft front door' office on Shepcote Office Village, Sheffield, which is being developed by St Modwen Properties PLC in conjunction with Co...


The £100 million redevelopment of Hatfield Town Centre received a boost this New Year when GO East confirmed that the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) and the Road Closure Order (RCO) for the proposed scheme had been approved by the...