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03/21/2016

MIPIM spotlights the Thames Valley

Matthew Battle reports for the Thames Valley from MIPIM 2016 For the dozen or so hardy souls who attended the inaugural Thames Valley breakfast held at The Carlton, MIPIM 2016 it was a unqualified success. Not since the heady days of the Reading Boat over ten years ago has there been a formal gathering of Thames Valley folk at this global property fest in the re-badged Cannes-upon-Thames with numbers back up to its 2008 level of 24,000 official delegates from around the world’s property
03/21/2016

Go-ahead for 205 riverside flats in Staines

Bellway’s plans for 205 riverside apartments on a council car park in Staines have been approved. The application was submitted in December and approved this month for the mix of one, two and three bedroom apartments on the site in Bridge Street. It will have a restaurant with glass frontage and panoramic views of the river, 140 parking spaces, a gym and communal garden for residents. Cllr Nick Gething, cabinet member for planning and economic development, said: "This announcement marks an
03/18/2016

Rumours and movers: The Stable, Sheeplands and Black & Decker

The Stable A restaurant which specialises in pizza, pies and cider has applied for permission to make alterations to one of Reading’s most historic buildings. Dorset-based The Stable plans to open a restaurant at Seven Bridges House in Bridge Street which was originally the head office of the former Simonds Brewery on the current site of The Oracle. Listed building permission has been sought to make the internal alterations. The building, which had been used as offices by The Oracle owners
03/18/2016

Reading UK 2050 goes public

Businesses were urged to get behind the Reading UK 2050 vision on Thursday (March 17) as the project made its first public launch. After almost three years of discussions and workshops, a team led by Barton Willmore, has now gone public with a weekend of town centre displays and consultation. Around 100 attended the launch at Haslams offices in Friar Street where Nigel Horton-Baker, executive director of Reading UK CIC described the six areas the vision has focused on – Station Hill, Abbey
03/18/2016

"We need a message that is strong and true"

A new message to promote Slough is being developed and more than 100 guests got the first indications of what it will be at a key conference in the town. The council and developers came together for the town’s second Economic Growth Conference on Tuesday (March 15) and delegates at the half-day event heard, not only about the scale of regeneration, but how Slough – in one respect at least – is already regarded as a city. Chief executive of Slough Borough Council, Ruth Bagley revealed ‘a new
03/17/2016

Council agrees deal with Abstract Securities for Basing View

Councillors have agreed a deal to let Abstract Securities build a speculative new 60,000 sq ft office building at Basing View. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s cabinet agreed on Tuesday (March 15) to sell a 999 year peppercorn lease on a site it owns in the town centre business zone to Abstract to build the BREEAM Excellent-rated five-storey building. The site has already been cleared for development by the council, which has also made a bid for support to the Enterprise M3 Local
03/16/2016

Disappointment over Chancellor's rate reform

Commercial property consultants Vail Williams has responded to today’s (Wednesday's) Budget saying while the Chancellor offers some relief to small businesses, he failed to mention the widely anticipated reforms to business rates from April 2017. Simon Moffatt, Lead Partner - Business Rates Consultancy at Vail Williams said: “At face value, the announcement on the new threshold for the Small Business Rates Relief (SBRR) is welcome news, although for many small businesses it’s probably too
03/16/2016

Aldi store and Costa drive-through planned for Suttons Business Park

A new Aldi and drive-through Costa are on the cards as part of a planned redevelopment of buildings on the eastern edge of Suttons Business Park. Owner Standard Life Investments wants to demolish vacant warehouse and office buildings close to the A4 London Road at Earley and build the supermarket and drive-through along with four modern industrial/warehouse buildings. The plans will be submitted in two applications. The first, to go in in April, is for four modern warehouse/industrial

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News

MIPIM spotlights the Thames Valley

Go-ahead for 205 riverside flats in Staines

Rumours and movers: The Stable, Sheeplands and Black & Decker

Reading UK 2050 goes public

"We need a message that is strong and true"

Council agrees deal with Abstract Securities for Basing View

Disappointment over Chancellor's rate reform

Aldi store and Costa drive-through planned for Suttons Business Park