Over the past few years insurance costs for commercial buildings have risen beyond inflation. High profile incidents such as the Buncefield fuel depot explosion in Hertfordshire in 2005, have continued to drive premiums higher.
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Amazon has opened its 800,000 sq ft distribution facility in Swansea and has launched a huge recruitment drive to find some 1,000 staff.
Gazeley is believed to have acquired a 20 acre site in Stoke-on-Trent off junction 15 of the M6 motorway and is believed to be in the process of acquiring an 11 acre site off junction 3 of the M6 motorway in Nuneaton.
Developer Sterling Capitol has submitted a detailed planning application for two major distribution centres that could create over 1,000 new jobs in the Goole area.
The Big Blue Shed at Bellshill Industrial Estate in Lanarkshire, one of Scotland’s most prominent industrial buildings, is back on the market through King Sturge.
Retailers continue to drive growth in the South West and across the UK in the industrial and distribution market, as the sector looks for new warehouse space to cope with the flood of consumer goods from the Far East, according to Lambert Smith Hampton’s
Paperchase has taken Unit A at Frontier Estates’ A1M1Link scheme at Thrapston in Northamptonshire on a ten year lease at £4.75 per sq ft.
The entry for Eurocentral in the 2008 edition of LM-Sheds, which was distributed with Logistics Manager last month, contained the wrong email address for Morag Lyons. It should have been morag.lyons@musedevelopments.com
According to property pundits across Europe, despite a more subdued level of activity around the world following the recent tangle in the finance markets, occupiers of warehousing are looking at increasing rent levels.
Sladen Estates and Peveril Securities have announced plans to develop a new green shed at Brook Park in Mansfield.
