Wilson Bowden Developments and the Northwest Development Agency, in partnership with the Rochdale Development Agency and Rochdale Council, have submitted a planning application for 600,000 sq ft of industrial space at the 420-acre Kingsway business park.

Freight Forwarder Rhenus Logistics has agreed a 70,000 sq ft pre-let on warehouse space at Gallan Park, Cannock. The 13.4-acre site, off the A5, Watling Street, Cannock, is being developed by Birmingham-based Gallan Group, which is creating a speculative

Gladman Developments has won planning permission for a £20 million, 317,859 sq ft industrial and distribution scheme at Wentworth Distribution Park, Tankersley, South Yorkshire, less than one mile from Junction 36 of the M1 motorway.

Yorkshire-based vegetable oil products supplier Kerfoot Group has paid £1.1 million for two units totalling 30,000 sq ft at Opus Land’s 120,000 sq ft Opus 36 scheme in Goole.

Tesco has been pulled as a potential occupier for an 850,000 sq ft warehouse at Goodman’s million sq ft scheme in Andover.

EnvironCom has taken Threadneedle Property Investments’ 157,000 sq ft Scope warehouse on the Spittlegate Industrial Estate to the south of Grantham.

The Council for the Protection of Rural England, South Yorkshire branch, is opposing two distribution developments in the region, which could provide up to 4,000 jobs.

ProLogis is offering leases from three years with six monthly break clauses thereafter across the whole of its wholly-owned five million sq ft portfolio in the UK, say property sources.

Every day in Britain at least one worker is taken to hospital with injuries following an accident involving a forklift truck. And, on average, once every six weeks someone is killed. Statistics from the Health & Safety Executive show transport is the seco

As supply chain and logistics directors grapple with the challenges of managing a growing volume of goods from outsourced manufacturing sites in the Far East and eastern Europe, focus of attention has turned to the weak link in the chain, the ports.