Go-ahead for £400m Elstree film studio expansionSky and Legal & General have secured planning to almost double the size of Sky Studios Elstree in Hertfordshire.
Hertsmere councillors approved the £400m Sky Studios Elstree North project, which will deliver 10 extra stages and 210,000 sq ft of Tier 1 space. The expansion takes the Borehamwood complex to 22 stages across 65 acres and 470,000 sq ft…
Dubai developer buys London house builder RegalDubai based developer Arada has acquired a 75% stake in leading London residential specialist Regal.
Arada is committing an initial £500m of capital to acquire and invest in Regal to accelerate and grow delivery of its residential-led pipeline in London over the next two years.
Regal – which will now become Arada London – has a 30-year track…
Munnelly awards first-ever stake to non-family directorMunnelly Group has broken with 43 years of family ownership tradition by awarding shares to a non-family member for the first time.
Director Will Noble, who joined in 2001 and has been on the main board since 2008, has been granted a significant stake in the business.
Group chief executive Paul David Munnelly hailed the move as a landmark…
Green light for £2.2bn Gatwick Airport second runwayPlans to build a second runway at London’s Gatwick airport have finally got the green light after a decision was delayed in February.
Heidi Alexander, transport secretary, approved the scheme with conditions on noise abatement and public transport provision.
Gatwick Airport said the project is privately financed, requiring no taxpayer money,…
Green light for BBC Elstree studio revampInvestment giant AXA IM Alts has been granted planning permission to redevelop half of the BBC Elstree Centre TV and film studio.
Proposals include transforming current studios and ancillary spaces into 266,000 sq ft of modern media campus for the high-end TV and independent film industry.
The remaining 50% of the 16-acre site was recently upgraded by t…
Henry Boot lands £162m Duxford aviation campusHenry Boot has been appointed development partner for a £162m aviation technology campus at IWM Duxford, near Cambridge.
The 25-acre ‘Duxford AvTech’ scheme will deliver 435,000 sq ft of innovation space aimed at accelerating low and zero carbon aircraft technology.
Imperial War Museums and Gonville & Caius College have brought in Henry Boot’s…
Retaining wall collapse kills builder on school siteA leading South West contractor has been fined after an employee was crushed to death when a 1.8m high retaining wall collapsed onto him.
Gary Anstey, 57, from Bristol, was working for H. Mealing & Sons Limited at a construction site at a school in Bath when the incident happened on 19 March 2019.
An HSE investigation found that H. Mealing …
Bathroom pod specialist Taplanes goes underModular bathroom specialist Taplanes is set to go into liquidation.
The Harrogate based firm has been in business since 1979 and specialised in the manufacture and supply of bathroom and shower pods across all sectors.
Assets of the £3m turnover business including a forward order book of £2.5m are now being sold off.
One rival modular specialist said…
Former Highways England director banned over Covid loan abuseA former executive director of Highways England has been disqualified as a company director for Covid loan abuse.
Anna Daroy has also served as Director General of the Institute of Directors and a raft of senior roles across all industries.
She was Executive Director of Strategy and Planning at Highways England from 2015-17.
In 2020…
O’Rourke appoints new Director of Strategy and TransformationVictoria Pomarnevska has been appointed as the new Director of Strategy and Transformation for Laing O’Rourke’s Europe hub.
She joins the business from her role as Strategy and Planning Director at British Gas.
Pomarnevska will initially work alongside current strategy head Glenn Sheedy who is taking up a new role as Director,…