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Posted by Alan Bunce | Apr 30, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Editorial, Hampshire, News, Politics, Reading, Residential, Thames Tap, Views |
In the second of three articles marking the 125th anniversary of Thames Tap partner T A Fisher,...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 30, 2020 | Development, Development, Development, Eastern Echo, Editorial, Editorial, Editorial, London West, Politics, Politics, Politics, Thames Tap, Views, Views, Views |
Ed Weightman, senior associate and energy specialist in Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP’s Oxford...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 29, 2020 | Development, News, Residential, Surrey, Thames Tap |
Plans have been drawn up by Spelthorne Borough Council to build 140 flats on three parcels of its...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 27, 2020 | Deals, News, Office, Surrey, Thames Tap |
Plans to move Surrey County Council (SCC) to Midas House in Woking have been scrapped due to the...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 24, 2020 | Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Development, Infrastructure, News, Thames Tap |
Plans have been submitted for a major link road to the south and east of Aylesbury to serve the...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 23, 2020 | Berkshire, County, Development, Hampshire, News, Reading, Residential, Views |
While the property sector faces its most difficult time in most people’s living memories, one...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 22, 2020 | News, Plan, Surrey |
Online planning committee meetings will start at Guildford Borough Council on May 20.Only...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 21, 2020 | Development, Industrial, News, Oxfordshire |
Work to build a specialist vaccines centre at Harwell has begun ahead of schedule because of the...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 20, 2020 | Buckinghamshire, Development, High Wycombe, Mixed Use, News, Thames Tap |
Architectural consultancy Hawkins/Brown has won planning consent for the 13,560 sq ft...
Read MoreRare Commercial Property has been appointed to market 27,177 sq ft of office space at One Forbury...
Read MoreByBox has taken the entire seventh floor at The Future Works in Slough – including a private roof...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 14, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Leisure, Mixed Use, News, Politics, Reading, Residential, Retail, Thames Tap |
Property agents have given Thames Tap their views on the complexities over redevelopment of the...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 9, 2020 | Basingstoke, County, Hampshire, News, Office |
Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has been appointed to operate alongside Rare Commercial Property as...
Read MoreOne of the country’s leading planners has joined UK Property Forums member Cratus...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 6, 2020 | Arc Watch, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Development, Development, Editorial, Editorial, Environment, Industrial, Infrastructure, News, News, News, Office, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Politics, Politics, Residential, Thames Tap, Views, Views, Views |
Housing will be key to the success of the Oxford to Cambridge Arc, according to Bidwells’ research...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 3, 2020 | Development, News, Oxfordshire, Residential |
Rectory Homes and FirstPort Retirement Property Services have applied to build an extra care...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 2, 2020 | Buckinghamshire, Deals, Deals, Hillingdon, News, News, Office, Office, Uxbridge |
Arlington has let 10,854 sq ft at Uxbridge Business Park to pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 30, 2020 | Berkshire, Bracknell, Development, News, Residential |
Plans for up to 305 homes and a primary school in Warfield have been submitted to Bracknell Forest...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 30, 2020 | Berkshire, News, People, Reading |
Blandy & Blandy has been ranked joint 12th in a list of the top-rated planning law firms in...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 27, 2020 | Editorial, People, Politics, Views |
Andy Meader, senior director for Pegasus Group, explains how COVID-19 has affected the planning...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 26, 2020 | Development, News, Residential, Surrey |
Plans for 310 Build-to-Rent flats in a 39-storey block in Woking town centre have been...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 25, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, News, Residential, Slough |
The final planning hurdle in Berkeley Homes’ plans for the Horlicks Building in Slough has...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 24, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Mixed Use, Newbury, News, Reading, Thames Tap |
Plans have been submitted for the development of Shalford Farm on the Wasing Estate between...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 23, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, News, Reading, Residential |
Berkeley Homes has submitted its plans for 209 homes on the site of the former SSE building in...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 20, 2020 | Development, Leisure, News, Oxfordshire, Politics |
Plans for a leisure centre between Wantage and Grove have been scrapped after Vale of White Horse...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 18, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Leisure, Mixed Use, News, Office, Reading, Residential, Retail |
The planning application for the mixed-use scheme proposed for Reading Station Shopping Park has...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 17, 2020 | Development, Editorial, Industrial, Infrastructure, Leisure, Mixed Use, News, Office, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Residential, Retail, Thames Tap |
Exclusive interviews with key players in the £4 billion joint venture between the University of...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 13, 2020 | Development, Leisure, News, Oxfordshire |
Great Wolf Lodge is considering its options after plans for a major resort at Bicester were...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 13, 2020 | Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Development, Infrastructure, News, Politics |
Aylesbury’s ambition to become a Garden Town was given a boost in the Chancellor’s March 11 Budget...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 13, 2020 | Berkshire, News, Reading, Views |
Debbie Brett, partner in Blandy and Blandy’s corporate & commercial team, explains the...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 12, 2020 | Development, Industrial, News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Thames Tap |
A £180 million science and digitisation centre for the Natural History Museum at the Harwell...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 10, 2020 | Appointments, Appointments, Arc Watch, Berkshire, Cambridge, Eastern Echo, Infrastructure, News, News, News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, People, People, Thames Tap |
Luxury housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has made two key appointments in its strategic land...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 9, 2020 | Berkshire, Environment, Infrastructure, Reading, Thames Tap, Views |
Chris Holdup, associate at mode Transport Planning, offers his initial thoughts on the newly...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 6, 2020 | Berkshire, Environment, News, Reading, Thames Tap |
A clean air zone, workplace parking levy, emissions and road user charging, a third Thames bridge...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 6, 2020 | Development, News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Residential |
A former Conservative Club in Oxford would make way for 52 student rooms in a planning application...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 5, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Leisure, London West, Mixed Use, News, Office, Plan, Reading, Residential, Retail, Thames Tap |
Councillors approved plans to add 422 flats to Reading’s Broad Street Mall at their March 4...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 4, 2020 | Development, Hampshire, News, Residential, Thames Tap |
Councillors in Rushmoor borough have approved a five-year business plan ahead of the formation of...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 2, 2020 | Thames Tap, Views |
On January 31, Thames Tap held a round table at which there was virtually unanimous agreement that...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 2, 2020 | Development, News, Office, Reading, Thames Tap |
Topping out has taken place at the new 240,000 sq ft office development at Green Park, ahead of an...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 28, 2020 | Development, Infrastructure, News, Swindon, Thames Tap, Wiltshire |
Public drop-ins will be held to explain plans for the radical multi-million pound Bus Boulevard...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 26, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Leisure, Mixed Use, News, Reading, Retail, Thames Tap |
Councillors have been recommended to approve a plan by The Oracle in Reading to turn its House of...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 26, 2020 | Berkshire, Deals, News, Office, Reading, Thames Tap |
Arlington Business Park at Theale has been sold to Singapore-based CapitaLand for £130 million.All...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 25, 2020 | Development, News, Office, Reading, Residential, Thames Tap |
McKay Securities has applied for prior approval to turn its Reading head offices into flats – but...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 24, 2020 | Berkshire, Infrastructure, Infrastructure, London West, Maidenhead, News, News, Office, Reading, Slough, Thames Tap, Views, Views |
Driven by the need to adopt a more cost competitive trading position post-Brexit together with...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 21, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Industrial, News, Plan, Reading, Thames Tap |
A plan for 20,000 sq m of industrial development is being drawn up for a site at Theale.A...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 20, 2020 | Development, Leisure, Mixed Use, News, Residential, Retail, Surrey, Thames Tap |
Plans are being drawn up to develop a town centre site in Guildford into homes, shops, cafes, a...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 19, 2020 | Development, Industrial, Leisure, News, Reading, Thames Tap |
A massive film studio is planned for Thames Valley Science Park.US-based Blackhall Studios has...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 30, 2020 | Eastern Echo, Editorial, Editorial, Editorial, London West, Politics, Politics, Politics, Residential, Residential, Residential, Thames Tap, Views, Views, Views |
Associate solicitor Manisha Bhula, head of Blandy & Blandy’s residential property &...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 29, 2020 | Appointments, Berkshire, News, People, Politics, Reading, Thames Tap |
Reading UK has appointed two new members to its board of directors.Becky Holland (pictured above),...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 27, 2020 | Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Development, Editorial, Hampshire, Mixed Use, News, Office, Oxfordshire, Politics, Reading, Residential, Thames Tap |
Business confidence will return to the Thames Valley so long as a ‘measured and sensible’ approach...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 27, 2020 | Berkshire, News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, People, Reading, Thames Tap, Towns |
Bulb Interiors’ Andrew Squires expects to complete a month-long, 6,000km charity cycle ride from...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 23, 2020 | Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, County, Development, Industrial, News, Thames Tap |
Haymaker Group has submitted plans for 36 commercial units totalling 85,000 sq ft near...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 23, 2020 | Berkshire, County, Deals, Development, News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Plan, Reading, Residential |
Savills‘ south central development team, based in Oxford and Reading, has reported a strong 2019...
Read MoreFollowing an initial announcement on March 20, 2020, the Government has sought to provide further...
Read MoreOlivia Foster, in Blandy & Blandy’s commercial property team, outlines the impact of the...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 15, 2020 | News, Oxfordshire, Plan, Politics |
A council leader has written the housing minister to ask for a relaxation of targets dates for...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 14, 2020 | Arc Watch, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Development, Hampshire, Industrial, Industrial, Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Leisure, Mixed Use, Mixed Use, News, News, Office, Office, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, People, Residential, Residential, Retail, Surrey, Wiltshire |
Thames Tap partner Kier has issued a reminder of the firm’s presence in the region after the...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 14, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Leisure, Mixed Use, News, Plan, Reading, Residential, Retail, Views |
Friends of Reading Abbey (FORA) wants any new development at Reading Gaol to be sympathetic to...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 14, 2020 | Development, News, Oxfordshire, Plan, Residential |
Goldfield Estates and Pandora Properties are planning up to 200 homes on land at Eynsham.Via...
Read MoreDuncan Campbell, director of property advisers Campbell Gordon, has appeared on a BBC video...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 7, 2020 | Berkshire, County, Development, Leisure, Mixed Use, News, Politics, Reading, Residential, Thames Tap |
Councillors and campaigners have been left frustrated by the decision of the Ministry of Justice...
Read MoreDrugs giant Eli Lilly has taken all 42,500 sq ft of office space at 8 Arlington Square...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 2, 2020 | Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Editorial, Editorial, Editorial, Hampshire, Industrial, Industrial, Industrial, Mixed Use, News, Office, Office, Office, Oxfordshire, Politics, Politics, Residential, Residential, Residential, Retail, Retail, Retail, Surrey, Views, Views, Views, Wiltshire |
Developer and Thames Tap partner Jansons Property has put together a summary of how its experts...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Apr 2, 2020 | County, Deals, Industrial, News, Office, Oxford, Oxfordshire |
Brookfield Asset Management has acquired a 50 per cent stake in the Harwell Campus.Through its...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 30, 2020 | Berkshire, Reading, Views |
Olivia Foster, in Blandy & Blandy’s commercial property team, explains the impact of...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 30, 2020 | Berkshire, Editorial, News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Reading |
Around five years ago Bulb Interiors set up a specialist division focussed on the very specific...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 27, 2020 | Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Development, Oxfordshire, Plan, Views |
Planning authorities will need to balance the need for transparency and public involvement against...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 26, 2020 | Berkshire, Editorial, Politics, Reading, Residential, Views |
Blandy & Blandy partner, Luke McMath, explains how the housing market and conveyancing can...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 26, 2020 | Development, News, Residential, Surrey |
Councillors have refused an application by Watkin Jones and McKay Securities for 366 Build-to-Rent...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 25, 2020 | Berkshire, Editorial, Retail, Views |
In the midst of the most difficult times in most people’s living memory, Hicks Baker retail...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 23, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Newbury, News, Residential, Retail, Thames Tap, Views |
Commercial developers should consider building in Newbury because of the shortage of supply in the...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 20, 2020 | Editorial, News, Politics, Views |
The COVID-19 crisis is leading to increased demand for some services, new working practices and...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 19, 2020 | Development, Leisure, Mixed Use, News, Swindon, Wiltshire |
One of Swindon’s most remarkable buildings could be compulsorily purchased by the council and...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 18, 2020 | Development, Infrastructure, Mixed Use, News, Office, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Residential, Retail, Thames Tap |
The developer behind the £500 million Oxford North scheme has begun the search for two joint...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 16, 2020 | Development, Mixed Use, News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Residential |
Frontier Estates is planning 153 student rooms in Jack Straw’s Lane in Headington,...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 13, 2020 | Development, News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Politics, Residential, Retail, Thames Tap |
Councillors have agreed to move forward with the £100 million redevelopment of the Blackbird Leys...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 13, 2020 | Development, Hampshire, Mixed Use, News, Residential, Retail, Thames Tap |
Plans have been submitted to redevelop a run down area of Aldershot town centre with 100 flats,...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 12, 2020 | Arc Watch, Bedford, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, Development, Development, Eastern Echo, Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Milton Keynes, News, News, News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Thames Tap |
The Oxford-Cambridge Expressway has taken a backseat thanks to a Government document stating the...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 11, 2020 | Development, Industrial, News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Thames Tap |
Tungsten Properties has pre-let a 22,000 sq ft industrial unit in Witney to manufacturing business...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 9, 2020 | Plan, Reading, Thames Tap, Views |
When councillors in Reading met last week to decide some important planning applications there was...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 9, 2020 | Berkshire, Deals, News, Office, Reading, Thames Tap |
Law firm Blandy & Blandy has signed two 10-year lease renewals for its central Reading...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 6, 2020 | Berkshire, Deals, News, Office, Reading, Thames Tap |
Racehorse Owners Association (ROA) is on course to become a new occupier in Reading.ROA is...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 6, 2020 | Development, Leisure, News, Oxfordshire, Thames Tap |
Councillors have been recommended to refuse permission for the proposed Great Wolf Lodge resort at...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 4, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Industrial, Mixed Use, News, Office, Residential, Retail, Slough, Thames Tap |
Neighbouring councils are being consulted on plans to redevelop Langley Business Centre for a...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 3, 2020 | News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, People |
Eight people have been promoted at Savills’ Oxford office.The moves include five people stepping...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 2, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Leisure, Maidenhead, Mixed Use, News, Office, Residential, Retail, Thames Tap |
Plans to replace two offices in Maidenhead with a mixed use, office, residential and commercial...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Mar 2, 2020 | News, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Thames Tap |
Finalists have been decided for the Oxfordshire Property Awards 2020. Judges met on Friday,...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 27, 2020 | News, Oxfordshire, Plan, Thames Tap |
The latest move in the South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) Local Plan row looks set to...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 26, 2020 | Berkshire, Development, Mixed Use, News, Reading, Residential, Retail, Thames Tap |
Plans to add up to 422 flats to Reading’s Broad Street Mall go before councillors on March 4 with...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 25, 2020 | Basingstoke, Development, Hampshire, News, Residential, Subject, Thames Tap |
The planning application for the 3,520-home Manydown scheme at Basingstoke will be heard by...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 24, 2020 | Berkshire, Infrastructure, News, Residential, Thames Tap, Views |
Western Rail Link to Heathrow will prove a game changer for Reading’s housing market, according to...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 24, 2020 | Development, Mixed Use, News, Office, Oxfordshire, Residential, Sector, Thames Tap |
New plans have been submitted for the Bicester Gateway development after the previous scheme was...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 21, 2020 | Development, News, Plan, Residential, Swindon, Thames Tap, Wiltshire |
An application to build up to 370 homes in Swindon has been submitted by David Wilson Homes and...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 20, 2020 | Berkshire, News, People, Reading, Thames Tap, Towns |
Chartered architectural technologist Sara Mardle has joined Reading-based Thames Valley Surveying...
Read MorePosted by Alan Bunce | Feb 18, 2020 | Arc Watch, Event News, News, News, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Thames Tap |
Around 45 delegates attended the latest Oxford Social where MIPIM topped the agenda.The breakfast...
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