All Property and Planning articles – Page 4
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NewsOcado reveals location of first rapid delivery depot outside of London
Ocado said a new Zoom warehouse in Leeds will open by the end of the year
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I Vape Great to build £7m facility as revenues expected to break £100m
The company recently secured Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) which allows the sale of IVG in the US market
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Planet Organic to open first store outside London
The specialist organic retailer will open a new location in Henley-on-Thames in the autumn
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Stockpiling keeps demand for warehouse space at record highs
Retailers and manufacturers are making more use of third-party logistics businesses to stockpile amid supply chain disruption, according to CBRE
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Aldi looking for larger stores in latest nationwide hunt
The discounter is offering a finder’s fee to anyone who can recommend a site suitable for a 20,000 sq ft store – 2,000 ft larger than its usual minimum
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Tory leadership contenders urged to commit to business rates reform
They should commit to delivering promises made in the Conservative manifesto rather than ‘throw around tax cuts like confetti’, says leading property consultancy Colliers
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Asda opens first convenience store in Scotland
The new Asda on the Move store in Livingston is its 36th convenience store being run in partnership with EG Group
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Holland & Barrett sees UK sales drop £10m as Covid effects continue
Pre-tax profits jumped from £5.7m to £43.6m as the group consolidated online revenues
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M&S ‘bewildered’ after Michael Gove calls in Marble Arch development plan
The retailer plans to demolish the current 92-year-old building on 458 Oxford Street and replace it with a modern retail and office complex
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Amazon chooses Sevenoaks for first checkout-free Fresh store outside London
The store is the 19th Amazon Fresh store to open in the UK, the first of which opened in Ealing in March last year
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Waitrose stores in London first to take part in John Lewis rental housing project
Waitrose’s parent company is set to build new housing at three proposed locations, including over the supermarket’s shops in Bromley and West Ealing, in London
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Lidl opens one of its biggest ever UK stores at 27,000 sq ft
The discounter has insisted it may have a “slightly bigger” store elsewhere in the UK but has not clarified where
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Traditional shops paying ‘eight times more’ in business rates than online retailers
For every £100 earned by shops in Britain, £2.91 is payable in business rates, while for online retailers the figure is just 34p, according to Altus Group
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Tesco converting excess store space to flexible offices for hybrid workers
The supermarket is taking advantage of the pandemic-driven shift to home working
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M&S defends Marble Arch store plans after government halts redevelopment
The retailer has claimed the renovation plans will “positively impact the environment”
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Demand for warehouse space continues to outstrip supply, driving up rents
Some 11.3 million sq ft was taken in the first three months of the year, 11% up on the five-year average in quarter one, according to Colliers
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Plans to force landlords to let vacant shops dismissed as ‘gimmick’
Landlords will be forced to rent shops out to the highest bidder if they have been vacant for over a year
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Shop vacancy rates are falling but more uncertainty looms, warns BRC
It is only the second quarter in which the vacancy rate has fallen during the last four years
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Lidl offers finder’s fee to anyone who identifies a suitable site for a new store
It would mean a £22,500 fee for finding a location that leads to a £1.5m freehold purchase
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Property sell off takes Asda profits past £1bn
Asda’s statutory profits topped £1bn last year, according to newly filed accounts, as the group benefited from a one-off gain of almost £400m on property sales
