Segro lets Heathrow unit to Kuehne + Nagel

Segro has announced its second major Heathrow letting within 10 days. Airport Property Partnership (APP), a joint venture between Segro and Aviva Investors, has signed up transportation and logistics firm, Kuehne + Nagel, to its North Feltham Trading Estate at Heathrow. The estate is three miles from the cargo terminal. Kuehne + Nagel has signed a 10-year lease on an 86,500 sq ft unit and will be using the facility to distribute food and drink products. Just nine days earlier Segro announced

126 flats for Lower Earley commercial site

Plans have been submitted for 126 flats on the site of two commercial buildings in Lower Earley. Equity Real Estate Developments, through its agent Savills plans two blocks of four storeys on the site of the currently empty Auto Trader House and Hartman House, part of the Cutbush industrial area. The plans, submitted to Wokingham Borough Council last week, show a mix of one, two and three bedroom homes, accessed from Danehill, with 145 parking spaces and 142 cycle spaces. The site, which

Controversial Lidl store recommended for approval

A controversial application for a new Lidl supermarket has been recommended for approval by West Berkshire Council - but neighbouring Reading wants £50,000 for road improvements. Lidl had applied for the new store on the A4 Bath Road in Calcot in December 2015, next door to an existing Aldi, but the application led to criticism from Reading Borough Council’s lead councillor for strategic environment, planning and transport, Cllr Tony Page who called it a substandard application and said West

Clockwork Components buys Eynsham site

Land and buildings at Stanton Harcourt Road, Eynsham, Oxfordshire, have been acquired by upholstery and bedding parts supplier Clockwork Components. The 2.44-acre development site is earmarked for a new 47,000 sq ft headquarters warehouse building, doubling the firm’s current space at Network Point in Witney. Construction is planned to start this year. VSL & Partners, acted for the landlord, agreeing a sale price of £1,376,000. Clockwork Components finance director Chris Plews said: “We

Battle for Heathrow expansion intensifies

Heathrow airport has released results of a poll suggesting most of its neighbours favour expansion – while 11 London boroughs have written to the Prime Minister to oppose it. Heathrow’s poll by Populous in which more than 10,000 people across 12 council areas were interviewed. They were in Spelthorne, Brentford & Isleworth, Feltham & Heston, Windsor, Uxbridge & South Ruislip, Slough, Hayes & Harlington, Beaconsfield, Ealing North, Ealing Southall, Richmond Park and Twickenham. It showed 51 per

Overbridge Square conversion plans halted

Plans to convert a business park in Newbury into 107 apartments have been withdrawn. The proposals to convert the five office buildings at Overbridge Square Business Park under permitted development rules had been submitted to West Berkshire Council in June. But West Berkshire’s environmental health department has raised concerns and the applicant, who is stated as Overbridge Developments, has subsequently withdrawn the five separate applications which are for 59 one bed and 48 two bed

Guildford council buys Wey House

An office building in the centre of Guildford has been bought by the council as part of its plan to invest in property. Guildford Borough Council has bought three/four storey Wey House, a 44,945 sq ft building in Farnham Road with a view to gaining income from it. Cllr Geoff Davis, lead councillor for economic development, said: "Buying Wey House is a good investment and a strategic property asset for the Council. It will also provide a healthy future income." The building is 200 metres of

Planners agree 78 homes can go ahead after minister ruling

A development of 78 homes to the north of Chinnor, Oxfordshire has been given the go-ahead. The application by A2 Dominion Developments Ltd, was initially submitted two years ago but was refused largely because an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was needed. However the Secretary of State has since ruled it was not needed and the plan for homes on the 8.9 acre farmland site were allowed to be resubmitted, and were passed by South Oxfordshire District Council’s (SODC) planning committee on

Huge mixed use development for Woking town centre

A mixed use scheme including 560 flats in six buildings up to 35 floors is due to go before planners at Woking Borough Council by October. The town centre development at 20-32 Goldsworth Road, close to the station, was submitted last month by Rolfe Judd Planning on behalf of developer Prime Place. The high rise scheme on a site of just 1.85 acres, is for six blocks of ground floors plus 34, 26, 20, 17, 14 and 10 storeys above. Also included is 114,000 sq ft of offices, 9,073 sq ft of retail

Second approval for mixed use scheme at Didcot A Power Station

The large mixed use scheme for Didcot A Power Station has been approved for the second time. The 115 acre site lies mostly within the Vale of White Horse District Council (VWHDC) boundary but around a quarter of it comes under South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC). VWHDC approved it July 27 and on August 10 SODC gave did the same. The application includes 135,000 sq m of warehouse and industrial space plus 13,000 sq m of retail including a convenience store, a pub/restaurant and 150-bed