Two food distributors have taken space at Universal Consolidated Group’s Aurora building at Nursling near Southampton.

Leeds-based developer Sterling Capitol is on schedule to deliver a 33,000 sq ft production unit at Capitol Park, Goole, for Drax Power Station early next year.

The number of new warehouses being speculatively developed in the UK has fallen by a whopping 43 per cent, according to the latest King Sturge Industrial & Distribution Floorspace Today survey.

Developer Bericote has handed over Asda’s new 75,000 sq ft recycling centre at the Pattinson Industrial Estate in Sunderland.

The Co-op, advised by Strutt & Parker and DE & J Levy, has sublet Unit 8, Prince’s Court, Wapping Lane, London, E1 to DHL.

Developer St Modwen is helping a logistics firm to expand by agreeing to relocate them from one of its developments to another.

Leeds-based Northern Foods has snapped up the former RCS warehouse on the Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate following the haulier’s demise earlier this year.

John Good Shipping has taken Units 3, 4 and 5 in Block D at Orwell Terminal on Walton Avenue, Felixstowe.

Developer SEGRO reckons that the government’s decision to require business rates to be paid in full on empty industrial buildings will cost it £8 million this year.

TNT chose Ergo Floor Systems to supply it with 900 sq m of Standline interlocking PVC floor tiles at the group distribution centre of its fashion division in Leicester. TNT Fashion needed a way of blocking the excessive noise caused by pallet pump trucks