NEWSFLASH 30th November 2015
Cannock Chase Council has approved plans from Rioja Developments for a £110m 26,500 sq m designer
outlet village in Cannock by 2018. As the largest development of its kind in the West Midlands, the phased scheme is set to
bring in considerable inward investment into the region, providing a huge economic boost. The retail village will provide up to 130
designer outlet stores, new restaurants and around 2,000 car parking spaces on a site located next to the Mill Green Nature
Reserve. With planning approval granted, phase one of the development could now commence by the end of 2016, with an
anticipated opening in 2018.
Former Manchester United stars Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs have entered into a joint venture with
Rowsley Ltd to develop a boutique hotel and restaurant at Manchester’s Northern Stock Exchange.
Earlier this year, the Singaporean publicly-listed company took a majority share in the pair’s
Hotel Football development in Old Trafford, their Café Football chain of restaurants and their
hotel management firm, GG Collection. Most recently, it was announced that Rowsley would
become the major stakeholder of the St Michael’s mixed-used development project in
Manchester city centre.
The joint venture between Rowsley and Giggs and Neville’s Finestday Limited, which owns the
Grade II listed building that formerly housed the Northern Stock Exchange in the city centre, said
the site will be extensively renovated into a boutique hotel with restaurant and roof terrace.
Listed building consent has been secured for the development, and the hotel is expected to start operating in 2017.
The Arora Group has revealed plans to build two directly connected hotels at Heathrow Terminal 4 after
signing an exclusivity agreement with the airport.
Whitebridge Hospitality, a subsidiary of LJ Group, and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) will
be partners in the project which will see a Crowne Plaza hotel and a Holiday Inn Express open
at Terminal 4 in 2018.
The hotels will operate under a franchise agreement with IHG and will be managed by Arora
Hotels, a division of The Arora Group. The joint venture is being granted a ground lease for the
one hectare site.
Crowne Plaza London – Heathrow T4 will feature 300 bedrooms alongside business and
meeting facilities. Holiday Inn Express London – Heathrow T4 will offer 450 bedrooms.
BARNSLEY £2.5M
Phase 1, Gateway 36, Dearne Valley Parkway Birdwell
Planning authority: Barnsley Job: Reserved Matters Granted for restaurant Client: Harworth Estates Ltd Developer: Arch-E-Tech
Design Ltd, Butterthwaite House, Jumble Lane, Ecclesfield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S35 9XJ Tel: 0114 245 1021
PENRITH £4.68M
Thanet Well Caravan Park, Hutton Roof
Planning authority: Eden Job: Detail Plans Granted for holiday park (extn/alts) Client: Darwin Property Investment Management Ltd
Developer: Bratherton Park Design Consultants, Unit 5 Mollington Grange, Parkgate Road, Mollington, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 6NP
Tel: 01244 853 000
GLASGOW £21M
Motel One, Site at, 54 - 82 Oswald Street 265-267 Argyle Street
Planning authority: Glasgow Job: Detail Plans Granted for hotel Client: Motel One Agent: Leach Rhodes Walker Architects, Riverside,
New Bailey Street, Manchester, M3 5AA Contractor: Ogilvie Construction, Ogilvie House, Pirnhall Business Park, 200 Glasgow Road,
Whins of Milton, Stirling, Central, FK7 8ES Tel: 01786 812273
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LONDON Hogarth Business Centre, Burlington Lane £8.26m
Planning authority: Hounslow Job: Detail Plans Granted for hotel (conversion/alterations) Client: Whitbread Group plc Developer:
Axiom Architects, 10 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8RL Tel: 0203 5424136
London’s mayor has given final approval to the second stage of the £200m redevelopment of Lord’s Cricket
Ground.
Plans to redevelop the south-west side of the world-famous ground will see an increase in 1,082 seats, taking capacity up to 30,530.
The project will see the Tavern and Allen stand demolished to make way for a new three-tier stand of 5,200 seats. As part of the
phase two plan, the Thomas Lord Building will be redeveloped and extensive internal improvements carried out to the Pavilion,
allowing more room for cricket teams and staff. The Tavern pub will also be rebuilt inside the ground to create a more welcoming
refreshment centre. The earliest that work will begin on the project will be autumn 2019, due to the need for Lord’s to be free of
building works that summer for the ICC Cricket World Cup.
Good Stuff Eatery of the US is looking to launch a chain of burger restaurants across the country next year,
including four initial outlets in London, Cardiff, Oxford and Leeds. The Washington DC-based firm is said to be on the
verge of completing a deal to open in London’s Leicester Square as it looks to expand internationally. Good Stuff Eatery is privately
owned by the Sunnyside Restaurant Group. The company specialises in burgers and milkshakes, with a particular emphasis on fresh
cooking and organic products. The firm operates five sites, four in the US and one in Saudia Arabia.
Aberdeen City Council has approved plans for a new £333m Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) at Bucksburn. Construction
is planned to start during 2016 with completion scheduled for 2018. The new AECC design comprises of a multi-purpose space,
offering flexibility to host a large range of exhibitions, entertainment and sporting events, a multi-purpose dividable exhibition hall
and a range of conference facilities. Integrated within the design of the AECC is a 200-bed 4 star hotel which connects to the AECC
at ground floor level and first floor conference suite level.
Bruntwood has started work on an £8m redevelopment project to create a 52,000 sq ft co-working office
space in Manchester city centre.
A 15-storey building on the corner of Portland Street and Charlotte Street, formerly known as Bank House, is to be renovated and
relaunched as Neo. Designed by Bridge Architects, the building will offer co-working, event spaces, private studios, a communal
lounge and kitchen, a roof terrace and a digital art space.
REM has secured a letting to Centrica at Park House on London’s Oxford Street.
The energy firm has taken 28,311 sq ft at level two of the building for occupation by its energy marketing and trading division.
Coller Capital, TPF and MP & Silva have all also chosen Park House for their London headquarters in the last six months.
WOKING £5.25M
111 Chertsey Road
Planning authority: Woking Job: Detail Plans Granted for office building Client: KMN (SED) Ltd Developer: Scott Brownrigg Ltd, St.
Catherines Court, 46 - 48 Portsmouth Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 4DU Tel: 01483 568 686
Morgan Sindall’s London fit-out specialist has secured another major banking fit-out deal as demand for
new office space surges in the capital. The firm is understood to have secured a major job to refit 350,000 sq ft at 10 Upper
Bank Street on Canary Wharf for Deutsche Bank. The German bank is preparing the way to move about 4,000 back office workers
from five buildings in the City of London financial district to Canary Wharf. The bank plans to start moving staff towards the end of
2016, in a move to increase efficiency. A significant proportion will come from 6-8 Bishopsgate where the bank occupies 147,000 sq
ft. This building is due to be redeveloped by Mitsubishi Estate Company into a 40-storey tower once Deutsche’s lease expires in
2017.
Willmott Dixon has been named as the preferred bidder to build a 95,000 sq ft grade A office project in
Bristol city centre.
The firm is understood to have beaten regional rivals BAM, Wates and Kier to take the job for developer Cubex, which has been
designed to achieve a BREEAM Outstanding rating. Bristol City Council granted planning consent in September and work is now
expected to start early in 2016 with the building due to be ready for businesses to move in by autumn 2017.
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BAM Properties has secured planning permission for Latitude Yellow its £70m office development in the
West End of Leeds.
The fully-glazed 10-storey building fronting Wellington Road will offer 157,000 sq ft of Grade A office space with floor plates of
16,759 sq ft. BAM also has planning permission on its 5-acre Wellington Road site for Latitude Blue, a 119,000 sq ft seven-storey
office building. The projects will be built by the North East division of BAM Construction.
BAM Construction has been appointed by chemical giant INEOS as preferred bidder for its new
headquarters on Inchyra Road. The project is part of INEOS’ ongoing development of its 1,700 acre site in Grangemouth.
The £17m building, designed by Michael Laird Partnership, will have four storeys comprising 6,863 m2 in total. Work has already
started on site and is scheduled for completion in the final quarter of 2016.
Ankor Property Group is developing a student block in London that it plans to sell in individual units to
small investors.
The company has bought a former office site near South Ealing tube station for £8.25m and has planning consent to turn it into a
student development of 77 studios, with a gross development value of more than £21m. Unusually, instead of looking to sell the
scheme to a single investor, Ankor is selling individual units, providing an assured return of 5% a year over five years. Before Ankor
completed the purchase, it had exchanged options on 10 studios at between £200,000 and £300,000 per unit. Work is due to start
in the new year for occupation in September 2017.
A new joint venture between developer Osborne and Student Residence Investments has purchased a site
for a £20m student accommodation development in Winchester.
The brownfield site on Moorside Road in the Hampshire town has planning permission for 237 student accommodation bedrooms
and a gross development value of more than £20m. The build will be undertaken by Osborne’s construction arm and will start early
in 2016, with completion due in September 2017.
EDINBURGH £19M
University of Edinburgh, Chambers Street Newington
Planning authority: Edinburgh Job: Planning Not Required for law college (refurbishment) Client: University of Edinburgh Agent: LDN
Architects LLP, 57 - 59 Bread Street, Edinburgh, Lothian, EH3 9AH Contractor: Graham Construction, 5 Ballygowan Road,
Hillsborough, Co Down, BT26 6HX Tel: 028 9268 9500
A major £41m development at Birmingham City University’s City South campus in Edgbaston has been
granted planning.
The proposed 110,000 sq ft building, in Westbourne Road, is due to open in 2017 and will house the relocated school of education,
consolidating the faculty of health, education and life sciences onto one site. Designed by architects Sheppard Robson, the build will
provide teacher training and specialist facilities for health sciences including provision for research, a new lecture theatre, hall,
speech therapy, physiotherapy and ultrasound suites.
Graham Construction has secured the job to build new student halls for Edinburgh University with a bid of
£21.8m.
The 138-room post-graduate halls development is in the city’s Southside conservation area at Buccleuch Place and Meadow Lane.
Graham will develop the former garages and workshops site with a series of mixed-size buildings to tune in with the surrounding
area. This includes a new 5-storey block, offering a contemporary take on the City’s traditional tenement design, which will be
constructed using natural stone, glass and zinc. The scheme has been designed by JM Architects while RSP Consulting is the building
service engineer.
The University of Hull has selected Interserve Construction to deliver new teaching and research facilities
for the Hull York Medical School.
Planned works involve a 5-storey 70,000 sq ft new build and the refurbishment of existing buildings on the west side of the
University of Hull main campus. The new Health Campus Building will provide specialised medical teaching facilities including a full
mock hospital ward, operating theatre and intensive care nursing facilities. In addition to providing extensive collaborative working
areas for researchers, post graduate and undergraduate students, the building will house a large lecture theatre, a think pod and
‘green roofs’ with external terrace areas. The refurbishment of Loxley building will extend the Anatomy Department and
significantly enhance the internal environment. Later phases of the project will include some refurbishment to existing Aire, Dearne
& Calder Buildings,
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GLASGOW Southern General Hospital, 1345 Govan Road £16m
Planning authority: Glasgow Job: Detail Plans Granted for hospital imaging centre (extension) Client: University
of Glasgow Agent: BMJ Architects, The Hub, 70 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, Strathclyde, G51 1DZ Contractor: BAM Construct UK, Kelvin
House, Buchanan Gate Business Park, Stepps, Glasgow, Strathclyde, G33 6FB Tel: 0141 779 8888
LONDON £6.258M
Homerton Hospital, Homerton Row
Planning authority: Hackney Job: Detail Plans Granted for hospital (extension) Client: Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation
Trust Developer: Swanke Hayden Connell, Stock Building, Joiner Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S3 8GW Tel: 0870 0108030
Nuffield Health has submitted plans for a new private hospital adjacent to the Manchester Royal Infirmary
in the city centre.
Demolition work has already been completed at Manchester Metropolitan University’s former Elizabeth Gaskell campus.
The proposed £75m tertiary hospital building will comprise of 30 consultation rooms, 60 patient en-suite bedrooms, eight critical
care beds, six operating theatres and a rehabilitation gym. Subject to planning work is expected to get underway on the 130,000 sq
ft hospital and wellbeing centre next year.
Dubai developer Nakheel has signed a management
agreement with the Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
to operate a new St Regis hotel in Dubai.
Set to open in 2018, The St Regis Dubai - The Palm will be a part of Palm
Tower, Nakheel's 52-storey luxury mixed-use development and the
centrepiece of Palm Jumeirah island.
It will offer 289 guest rooms, including 23 suites, occupying the first 18
floors of The Palm Tower, while the upper floors will comprise 504 luxury
apartments.
Rotana Hotel Management stated on Sunday that it will continue its expansion in the region, with the
opening of 14 new properties, adding 3,769 rooms before the end of 2016. The hotel chain is focusing on further
strengthen its presence in Turkey and Bahrain, while 2016 will also see the opening of the group’s first property in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC). The new launches mean Rotana’s global property portfolio will increase from 13,875 rooms at present to
17,644. The expansion plan is part of the company’s vision of operating 100 hotels by 2020, according to Rotana president and
chief executive officer Omer Kaddouri.
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