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Swedish medi-tech company Sandvik has secured a 15-year multi-million pound deal for a 112,000 sq ft orthopaedic implant and instrument production and distribution facility at JF Finnegan’s Beighton Link Business Park in South Yorkshire.

Bicycle and car parts retailer Halfords is to take a new 320,000 sq ft purpose-built distribution centre in Keresley Park, Coventry as part of its reorganisation plans for the distribution network in 2010.

Property agents across the country are reporting an increase in the number of companies enquiring about space for logistics for the first time in a year.

Enquiries are on the up, but the thought that occupiers could turn and flee again must be too dreadful to bear, says LIZA HELPS.

It’s not only a long but a lonely one, with the Midlands and North West sections of the M6 accounting for 38 per cent of the UK’s total empty warehouse space. But this might be changing. JESSICA DAVIES reports.

Plans for a £48m business park in Lancashire comprising 680,000 sq ft of mixed-use employment space, including large industrial units of up to 400,000 sq ft, have been given the go-ahead by Burnley Council.

F&C REIT Asset Management, on behalf of IRP Property Investments has let the 27,764 sq ft Unit B warehouse at Hemel Gateway, Hemel Hempstead to Irish based photographic and medical diagnostic imaging company Photologic on a ten-year lease at a rent of £7.