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Anson Properties funded by Standard Life Investments has won permission to build a 300,000 sq ft warehouse on the former William Cook Foundry site in Burton on Trent.

Carpet and floor covering retailer Carpetright has consolidated all its cutting and distribution facilties into one location at Gazeley and Standard Life Investments’s 492,000 sq ft Ultrabox logistics facility in Purfleet.

The introduction of road pricing to manage the demand for road space is a necessity and an inevitability, Richard Turner, chief executive of the Freight Transport Association, told delegates to the association’s summit meeting in London today.

Lidl is to build its eighth UK distribution centre at the Aycliffe Industrial Estate, Newton Aycliffe in County Durham.

TDG is extending its chemical business to Spain with the £21m takeover of Doman SA and its related company Ferrer Logistica SL.