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There is a growing trend among developers to provide cross-docked facilities to the market not just on a design and build basis but speculatively.

Grahams Dairies has acquired 2.91 acres for a new depot to supply milk and other dairy products to Glasgow and the surrounding areas.

Thales Properties has let its 35,230 sq ft light industrial warehouse known as Silver Key in Erith, Kent, to electrical equipment manufacturer WT Henleyon an 11 year lease at a rent of £245,000 a year.

Space Property and Legal & General have started work on a 178,140 sq ft scheme at Charles Park, the joint venture’s £30 million speculative industrial/ business development at Crossways Business Park, Dartford, Kent.

One in four Local Planning Authorities restrict the development of logistics property, according to new research published by NAI Fuller Peiser. This is despite the fact that logistics is one of the fastest growing sectors of the UK economy.

Chartered surveyor Sanderson Weatherall has increased its presence in the industrial property market with the appointment of Jonathan Simpson to its office on Teesside and Andrew Carphin to its Newcastle office.

Bedford-based independent brewer Charles Wells has selected Gazeley’s G.Park Bedford as the location of its new national distribution hub.

It looks like occupiers are in for a shock; a combination of factors will see rents rise in the North West. Liza Helps reports.