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12/05/2018

£18.85m infrastructure boost for Oxford North

Councillors in Oxford have agreed in principle to put £18.85 million towards infrastructure at the Northern Gateway site. The 44-hectare development site includes the radical mixed-use Oxford North scheme of 90,000 sq m of commercial space, 480 homes and 180 hotel rooms, which was submitted in August by Thomas White Oxford. The money is made up from the £8.85m Oxford North is expected to generate in CIL receipts, and £10m which has been provisionally secured from Homes England, subject to the
12/04/2018

CloudFactory expands in The Blade

Technology business CloudFactory has taken 5,876 sq ft of space at The Blade in Reading. The fast-growing firm has taken a six-year lease at £32.00 per sq ft in the town’s tallest building which is now 92 per cent let. Nick Turner, asset manager for Northwood Investors, said: “This transaction, which is our fifth in 2018, is a great example of our determination to offer fast growing SMEs the flexibility to grow within The Blade. “We now have a whole floor and a ‘plug and play’ suite ready to
12/03/2018

View from the riverbank: Leisure time for Reading

At the time of publication of our Reading Report in September, we noted the town was in something of a lull in terms of development. Now, even though political uncertainty shows no signs of ending, the storm appears to have begun. As reported previously, major developments are in the pipeline at Winnersh Triangle and now 228,000 sq ft of Grade A office space is about to emerge at Green Park which has its new station coming online next year. On top of that Virgin Media has finally agreed to
12/03/2018

Cinema plan for Caversham submitted

Revised plans, which include a new cinema, have been submitted for St Martin’s Centre in Caversham. Developer Hermes had to revise the next phase of plans for the centre’s regeneration after Waitrose decided it would not expand its store as part of the project. Many of the 1969 centre’s shopfronts have already been renewed along with the installation of new paving and seating. Now the next stage, announced in the new application, shows a cinema accessed at the rear of the current Superdrug
12/03/2018

Major new speculative office scheme for Green Park

Work will start in the new year on 228,000 sq ft of speculative office space at Green Park. Two new buildings of 114,000 sq ft each at 400 and 450 Longwater Avenue will have five storeys of Grade A space, overlooking Longwater Lake. The development is the first substantial new scheme to be launched at Green Park since it opened almost 20 years ago and the first since a new masterplan for the park’s growth was agreed by Reading Borough Council in April 2016. Work will start in February with
12/03/2018

Hugh Blaza retires from BrookStreet des Roches

BrookStreet des Roches announces the retirement of its Senior Partner, Hugh Blaza, on 7 December 2018. Hugh served as the firm’s Managing Partner for ten years from 2008 to April 2018 when he handed over the reins to Philip Shaw. Hugh and partner Charlie Seaward joined BrookStreet des Roches in 1997 bringing to the firm a significant number of prestigious real estate clients. With the arrival of Martin Billings from Morgan Cole in 2000, the firm’s reputation as the ‘go to’ real estate firm in
11/30/2018

Download our Bracknell Report here

Our Bracknell Report was published alongside our Bracknell Social event and now it's available on Thames Tap. The report has input from Simon Fryer, the best known agent in town, and looks at the efforts being made to create a Business Improvement District across the southern and western industrial areas. There are expert commentaries from developer Andy Jansons of Jansons Property, Vail Williams and Segro who have all had significant dealings in the town over a long period. Simply click here
11/30/2018

Stunning motor museum proposed for Oxfordshire

Revised plans have been submitted for a Foster + Partners-designed motor museum at the former Enstone Airfield in West Oxfordshire. Peter Mullin, who owns a classic car museum in California, had applied to build the striking new £130 million museum at the 132-acre Enstone site, close to the Great Tew estate, in February 2017. After objections the plans were scrapped but a new planning application has now been submitted to West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) via planners, Edgars, for what

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News

£18.85m infrastructure boost for Oxford North

CloudFactory expands in The Blade

View from the riverbank: Leisure time for Reading

Cinema plan for Caversham submitted

Major new speculative office scheme for Green Park

Hugh Blaza retires from BrookStreet des Roches

Download our Bracknell Report here

Stunning motor museum proposed for Oxfordshire