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Occupiers are increasingly on the look out for sites with good access to the rail network and port connectivity as pressures grow for more sustainable supply chains, according to Lambert Smith Hampton’s latest National Industrial and Distribution Report.

A 102,000 sq ft distribution warehouse is to be developed by St Modwen on its 32-acre Quedgeley West Business Park, Gloucester, to store Dyson vacuum cleaners.

International freight distributor RJJ Freight has leased a refurbished 5,620 sq ft unit at Ringway Trading Estate on Shadowmoss Road, near Manchester Airport on a ten year lease at a record rent of £6.50 per sq ft.

A 133,000 sq ft warehouse formerly let to Boots Logistics is available to let in Nottingham.

Development partners Sladen Estates and Peveril Securities have secured a site in Thorne, Doncaster where they intend to build a 227,603 sq ft warehouse with two storey integral offices, a large goods yard and 111 car parking spaces set within a landscape

Dominic Whitfield of Savills sums up the dilemma facing the South East: “The occupier market is still strong but frankly where is the product?”

The A1, the Great North Road, has undergone a bit of a renaissance along with its upgrading in recent years. Long gone are the myriad of roundabouts, causing untold damage to the braking systems of innumerable cars and lorries

Bayer CropScience, one of the world’s leading crop science companies, has selected Atisreal to advise on the sale of its 40-acre manufacturing site on Gorsey Lane in Widnes, Cheshire.

Chancellor Alistair Darling took the opportunity in his first Budget to announce that as well as aiming for zero carbon homes he would be looking at all new property to be zero carbon rated by 2019.