Commercial property: Oxford v Cambridge
Oxford is catching up with Cambridge in commercial activity according to a comparison of the two...
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Thames Enterprise Park submits planning application for mega project
Thames Enterprise Park, a billion-pound regeneration project at the former Coryton oil refinery,...
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Marleigh ‘mini town’ gets full marks for new primary school
Cambridgeshire County Council has approved planning permission for a new primary school and...
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Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority looks for development partner on £17m project with Photocentric
The Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) is currently looking for development and...
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Marston Valley opens consultation on 5000 new homes
The public development brief consultation for a series of new villages to be developed in Marston...
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Bourn Airfield Site lands 3500 new homes for Countryside Properties
Plans have been approved for the delivery of a mixed-use development village on a site at Bourn...
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66 green homes bring colour to Milton Keynes
Plans have been approved by Milton Keynes Council for 66 new green council homes to be built in...
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Pegasus secures Northamptonshire planning permission for 260 homes
Pegasus Group has secured planning permission for 260 houses on an unallocated site at Desborough...
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Firethorn sparks new logistic park in Peterborough
Firethorn Trust, a real estate investor and developer, has acquired a new 21-acre site at Kingston...
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L&G propose 15,000 sq ft office scheme in Cambridge shopping centre
Legal & General has submitted plans for a new 15,000 sq ft office space in The Grafton,...
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Hill Group and L&Q Estates climb to new heights with 8500 homes at Westley Green
Hill Group and L&Q Estates have announced their maiden joint venture to promote Westley Green,...
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New Norfolk homes on site in Hunstanton
Lanpro has unveiled plans for eleven new homes on the site of the former Hunstanton Infant School...
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Eddisons shines a light on Bright Instruments in Huntingdon
Eddisons incorporating Barker Storey Matthews has announced the freehold sale of Burnett House at...
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Planning approval for RLW Estates at Waterbeach New Town East
Waterbeach New Town East, a new settlement of up to 4,500 homes close to Cambridge, has received...
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Approval for Barratt’s 100 new homes in Hatfield Peverel
Barratt Developments has announced that their 100-home development in collaboration with David...
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CALA gets planning permission for 238 new homes in Essex
CALA Homes North Home Counties has received planning approval for 238 homes and public open space...
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Hayfield proposes 80 eco-friendly luxury homes in Bedford
Hayfield has finalised the £31 million purchase of a 4.2-acre site in Bromham village for the...
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JMB helps to secure Elmswell’s newest residential scheme
James Bailey Planning (JBP) has secured outline planning permission for 86 dwellings on the site...
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Plans submitted for new HQ building in Peterborough
Barker Storey Matthews has submitted plans for a new headquarters, office, production and...
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Urban & Civic says hello to the Wellcome Trust
Urban&Civic is set to be purchased by charitable foundation Wellcome Trust in a £506 million...
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Sun rises on Cambridgeshire’s solar energy market
Cambridgeshire has seen two large-scale solar farm proposals submitted in January 2021. Axis...
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Screening opinion for mixed-use scheme in East Cambridgeshire
Rapleys, on behalf of Godwin Group, has submitted a screening opinion for 107 homes and 16,000 sq...
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Barwood Capital smashes £100 million fundraising target
Barwood Capital, a UK real estate investment and development specialist based in Northampton, has...
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Full marks on old Trinity School in Huntingdon
Morse Webb Architects have secured planning consent for development and investment company This...
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Property consultants issue positive market reports
Savills report on the residential market Cambridge’s property markets have shown encouraging...
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New labs and offices at Cambridge Biomedical Park
Cambridge’s joint development committee has approved an application for a new five storey...
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ilke Homes secures first site in the South East
ilke Homes, a modular housing company based in Harrogate, has secured a 15-acre greenfield parcel...
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Innovation Centre in Matt Hancock’s Constituency supports NHS vaccination programme
The EpiCentre, an innovation centre that offers lab space to start-up and scale-up business in...
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New owner for former Newmarket police station
The freehold for a former police station and magistrates court in Newmarket has been sold to...
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New Head of Properties and Facilities Management for Bidwells
Graham Wynde has joined Bidwells as a Divisional Partner and becomes the firm’s new Head of...
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Mole unearth resi planning application in Wolverton
Mole Architects announced that they have submitted a planning application for a new housing...
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House make a splash with 360 degree gaming technology
House by Urban Splash has started offering customers a fully immersive, 360-degree CGI experience...
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Rainier Developments announces two new resi deals Lower Stondon
Rainier Developments have recently announced that they have completed two separate residential...
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Firethorn strikes a match with Ascent Logistics Park
Construction work on Firethorn Trust’s Ascent Logistics Park in Leighton Buzzard will begin in...
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Go-ahead for major mixed use scheme in Southend-On-Sea
Lanpro has received approval for a residential-led mixed-use scheme on the former Shoebury...
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Top marks for Pegasus and the University in Peterborough
Pegasus Group, on behalf of Peterborough HE Property Company, has received planning permission for...
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Cygnet Park Peterborough is in good health
Savills, on behalf of PKB Ltd, has let 2 Phorpres Close on Cygnet Park in Hampton, Peterborough to...
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Thakeham unveils vision for UK’s first zero-carbon community
Thakeham has announced its vision to create the UK’s first zero-carbon community in South West...
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Massive plans for Stevenage Town regeneration submitted
Barton Willmore’s Cambridge team has applied for a £50 million government investment from the new...
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Westpoint in Peterborough sees flurry of leasing activity
Atlantic Leaf Properties has let office space at WestPoint in Peterborough to Western Union...
Read MoreICAEW host confidence summit for East of England’s economy
The Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales (ICAEW) hosted the East of England Economic Summit in late November 2020, in which they will release their Business Confidence Monitor (BCM). This economic summit provides...
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Deafblind UK sells HQ on Cygnet Park, Peterborough
Deafblind UK has sold the charity’s former headquarters on Cygnet Park in Hampton, Peterborough to...
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Three new tenants for Brackley Office Campus
Hillesden Trust represented by Albion Land Asset Management Ltd, has fully let its Brackley Office...
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1000 home at Paston Reserve in Norwood to be submitted
Plans for a new 1’000-home residential development on agricultural land to the east of Newborough...
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Major new affordable scheme in Peterborough and Stilton gets Government grant
Plans for 280 new affordable homes in Peterborough and Stilton have received approval from the...
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Rural Community Homes gets approval on 135-care home scheme
Plans for 135 homes, a 65-bed care home, and a café in Pinewood have finally received approval...
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Plans submitted for 80 luxury homes on Bedford outskirts
Hayfield Homes have submitted a planning application to Bedford Borough Council for the proposed...
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WSP submit plans for 90,000 sqft office at Cambridge Innovation Park
WSP has submitted a request for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) opinion regarding a...
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Hill and Marshalls reveal plans for new ‘mini-town’ in Cambridge
Details of East Cambridge’s new £550 million Marleigh town have been revealed by Marshall of...
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Secretary of State refuses to grant permission for Anglia Square’s £271 million redevelopment
Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, has denied...
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Waterbeach to Cambridge transport consultation gets the green light
Greater Cambridge Partnership’s (GCP) Executive Board has given approval for public consultation...
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Reserve matters for 526-apartment development in Stevenage
Planning Consultants Sphere 25 have submitted a Reserved Matters Application on behalf of The...
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Stansted Airport checks in with new planning application
Manchester Airport Group (MAG), the owner of Stansted Airport Limited, has submitted an...
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Bidwells advise Brookgate on securing funding for new office building in Cambridge
Aviva Investors and PSP Investments have agreed to jointly fund a 65’000 sq ft office development...
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Major resi planning application submitted at Black Bear Lane
West Suffolk Council has received an outline planning application for 123 homes and commercial...
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Aldi on site at Peterborough One Retail Park
Construction of a new Aldi supermarket at Peterborough One Retail Park is has commenced....
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Ipswich Borough Assets makes the call on pre-app for former BT site
Ipswich Borough Assets, with Lanpro acting as planning consultants, have begun pre-application...
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Royal Court Hotel gets seal of approval in Lowestoft
Lanpro has secured planning permission to redevelop the Royal Court Hotel into 15 residential...
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First Base makes a move on Milton Keynes
Funded by Patron Capital, the pan-European institutional real estate investor, First Base is...
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Suffolk Park gets its first UK warehouse
Weerts Group, a Belgian company that specialises in logistics, property and motor-racing, has...
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Marshalls reveal brand-new Cambridge ‘mini-town’
Marshall has revealed their plans for a new East Cambridge community, Marleigh, which will include...
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Sheppard Robson releases plans for St John’s Innovation Park
A detailed planning application has been submitted by architect Sheppard Robson for two new office...
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Community Land Trust scheme in Haddenham
East Anglian-based estate agent, Cheffins, has launched West End Gardens in Haddenham, a new...
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Traditional sales suite reimagined by Inholm
Housebuilder, House by Urban Splash, has built a modern and 100 per cent recyclable sales suite...
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First Base to develop massive new mixed-use neighbourhood in Cambridge
Developer First Base and RPMI Railpen (Railpen), the investment manager for the £30 billion...
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Green light for Cambridge South rail station consultation
Public consultation on the new Cambridge South railway station began in October 2020. Following...
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Morgan Sindall Construction to start work on Norwich Castle
Construction work has begun on the £13.5m National Lottery Heritage Fund supported project to...
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East West Railway launches new Community Hub
East West Railway Company, the company responsible for delivering the new East West Rail...
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Stamp of approval for new passport hub in Peterborough
The new Fletton Quays hub in Peterborough City Centre, due to be completed in 2022, will house...
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Hill acquires development from Axis Land
Hill have announced that they have acquired nine acres of land on the south eastern edge of the...
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Marshall’s confirms move from Cambridge to Cranfield Airport
Following the announcement that Cambridge Airport will close by 2030, Marshall’s has confirmed...
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Morgan Sindall Construction welcomes new Cambridge director
Morgan Sindall Construction has appointed Jamie Shearman to head up its Cambridge office,...
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Preferred bidder named for massive new education campus at Alconbury
Morgan Sindall Construction has been appointed as the preferred bidder for the first phase of a...
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Sweet news for the Port of Felixstowe
A factory closed by electronics giant Philips with a loss of many jobs has been sold to a...
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City of Norwich is transformed by major Government grant
The Roads Minister announced in September that the City of Norwich was to receive a major chunk...
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Cambridge North charts a new direction with web site
A digital platform showing plans for the massive Cambridge North development has been launched,...
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As flexible workspace demand soars, developer opens new Cambridge office
As demand for derived offices soars, the Hertfordshire based commercial property investor and...
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Planning application submitted for 180 homes in Bedfordshire
Land Promoter, Richborough Estates, has submitted a planning application for high-quality...
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How can we maintain the momentum towards sustainability created by the pandemic?
Elliot Page, Transport Director at Stantec, asks if the East of England can continue the...
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SCDC forms new housing partnership with the Hill Group
The South Cambridgeshire Investment Partnerships (SCIP) involves two new investment partnerships...
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South Cambridgeshire DC acquires Cambridge Science Park
South Cambridgeshire District Council, represented by Carter Jonas, has acquired 296 Cambridge...
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New vision for Basildon Town Centre
Developer, Orwell Real Estate, has submitted plans for a substantial £140m build-to-rent, mixed...
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230 new homes to be built on the edge of Cambridge
Preliminary permission has been granted for a 230-home development on the south east edge of...
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Norwich Energy Innovation Park consultation is now open!
Goff Group, together with their advisers and project architects, have been consulting with key...
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Shed Load of News for Yaxley
Industrial unit demand continues to move from strength to strength, and seems to have emerged from...
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Plans submitted for most sustainable scheme Cambridge has ever seen
Last month, Pace Investments Ltd submitted a full planning application for a commercial scheme at...
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Ongoing saga of the Glatton Road development
The on-going planning saga of Glatton Road in Sawtrey near Huntingdon continues as the developer...
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£7bn for funding Lower Thames Crossing
Highways England have set out their road building plan, including the Lower Thames Crossing which...
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Massive pre-let at West Thurrock logistics hub
As recently reported on CoStar, CBRE Global Investors on behalf of the CBRE UK Property PAIF, has...
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Government’s White Paper set to change housing needs in Essex and Suffolk
As detailed in Strutt & Parker’s August 2020 Planning Update on the Government’s White Paper...
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Fora complete major office letting in Cambridge
Flexible workspace provider Fora has expanded into Cambridge after signing a lease for a 65,000 sq...
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St John’s College plans 170,000 sq ft office in Cambridge
CoStar recently reported that Turnstone Estates and St John’s College have submitted plans for two...
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Local Hires for House by Urban Splash
House by Urban Splash, a new modern housebuilder committed to Modern Methods of Construction...
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