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Thornfield Properties has appointed a new architecture team to redesign its plans for Smithfield Market in the City of London. Architect Kohn Pederson Fox has been replaced by John McAslan & Partners. Plans by KPF were rejected in August 2008 by Secretary of State Hazel Blears. Revised plans will be submitted shortly. - (11-11-2008)
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The public inquiry to determine Thornfield Properties’ contentious 35,303 sq m (380,000 sq ft) office scheme at Smithfield market, London, EC1 will begin in November 2007. A successful outcome for Thornfield may prompt a 2008 construction start.
- (26-10-2007)
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Thornfield Developments has had its plans to redevelop the west wing (General Market building) of the former Smithfield market at 43 Farringdon Street, London, EC1, called in and could face a public inquiry. The plans are seen as a possible conflict with “national policies on important matters”. The £150m plans are for a seven storey 39,204 sq m (422,000 sq ft) redevelopment. Other buildings in Smithfield are no longer part of the plans, which have been scaled down following the listing of the Red House cold store earlier in the year. - (06-07-2006)
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Property developer Thornfield's plans for three large office buildings totalling 5m sq ft across disused parts of Smithfield market in Farringdon, London, EC1 have been dealt a blow by the listing of the former Fish Market. Thornfield will now have to change its plans to incorperate the listed building. - (04-03-2005)
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Work on Investstream’s refurbishment of Albion House, 55, New Oxford Street, London WC1, will complete during March 2005. The speculative office scheme will provide 4,088 sqm (44,003 sq ft) of space and is being marketed by Hodnett Martin Smith and Jones Lang LaSalle. Chorus is handling the fit-out and TP Bennett is the architect. CB Richard Ellis is the QS and project manager. - (14-01-2005)
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British Land has used H Smith Demolition to clear a major site for a 11,148 sq m (120,000 sq ft) office development at the corner of Old Seacoal Lane and Old Fleet Lane, just off Farringdon Road in London. At this time British Land is awaiting the right market conditions before starting development, but this is not expected to be long in an improving market. - (20-09-2004)
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Save Britain’s Heritage (SBH) is setting out to save the western buildings at Smithfield Market from redevelopment plans by the Corporation of London. SBH considers that the impending fight to be as important at that for Covent Garden in the 1970’s. The General Market buildings, owned by the Corporation of London and designed by architect Sir Horace Jones, have been vacant for at least six years. Although the entire complex is within a conservation area only about 60% of the buildings are listed. Thornfield Properties is thought to be working up a planning application for office development supported by the Corporation. The site is part of a plan by the City of London to allow 1m sq ft (92,900 sq m) of development at the western end of Smithfield and the proposed Crossrail track will bisect the site. - (18-02-2004)
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Jarvis, the support services company, has submitted a planning application for the Westgate site at 8-22 Smithfield Street and 30-38 Hosier Lane, London EC1. Jarvis intends to build a new six-storey 15,492 sq m (166,755 sq ft) building as a new headquarters to accommodate its City and West End offices. The scheme will also have retail uses on the ground floor. The architect for the scheme is CPMG Architects. - (18-04-2002)
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Barclays Bank has confirmed that it is has reached agreement in principle with Canary Wharf Group to take a new headquarters building at Canary Wharf, London E14. The bank is to take the BP1 site at Churchill Place, at the eastern end of the scheme. The building will be about 1 million sq ft and initially 60,386 sq m (650,000 sq ft) will be occupied by Barclays, with the flexibility to move into more space as required. Design work is underway and construction of the new tower will start at the end of 2001 and is due to be occupied by Barclays in 2005. Barclays Bank is being advised by Weatherall Green & Smith. - (05-09-2001)
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British Waterways has appointed Weatherall Green & Smith to advise on the redevelopment of Wood Wharf, east of Canary Wharf, London E14. Discussions are to be held with the planning authorities to "maximise the development potential" of the site. The site is seen as having potential for a "high-density, quality, mixed-use office and residential scheme". - (19-08-2001)
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The St Katherine's Dock mixed-use development in East Smithfield, London E1 is understood to have been put on the market by Taylor Woodrow. In 1969 the Port of London Authority sold the docks in Wapping to the Greater London Council for £1.5m and in 1969 the GLC awarded Taylor Woodrow the project to develop the docks, the first London Docklands regeneration project. The development includes the K2 site, previously called Europe House, which is planned as a 21,802sq m (234,676 sq ft) building that will provide seven-floors of office space, amounting to 16,720 sq m (180,000 sq ft), and a lower ground floor of 1,394 sq m (15,000 sq ft) of retail and restaurant space. The whole St Katherine's Dock development is on the market through Jones Lang LaSalle and is expected to be sold for around £250m. Possible bidders are said to include Catalyst Capital (previously Greenwich Group) with Lehman Brothers, and the US funds JE Roberts and Blackstone. - (01-07-2001)
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UK based Resolution Property has launched three limited partnerships to finance more than £250m of property development in London. The financing will fund three office schemes in London boroughs of Hayes, Hammersmith, and Camden. The deal is backed by JER Partners and the Blackstone Group, US real estate investors. Deutsche Bank, and its property financing subsidiary Eurohypo, will provide debt of up to £165m to complete the deal. UK institutions invested a record £5.6bn in property in the first nine months of last year, and saw yields of around 7% achieved.
- (18-05-2001)
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British Telecom is said to be close to arranging a sale and leaseback deal on its £2bn property portfolio with Land Securities. Land Securities is rumoured to have beaten Mapeley to the deal. In what is thought to be a speeding up of the process BT may now complete its £2bn portfolio sale and leaseback deal by summer 2001. BT's advisor Schroder Salomon Smith Barney is understood to have recently shortlisted Land Securities Trillium and Mapeley, the George Soros backed venture, as the final two bidders for the 7,500 sites in the UK. Oftel, the telephone regulator, has set restrictions on BT's ability to sell sites and they are to be leased to the successful bidders for 130-years and then leased back by BT on 30-year agreements. The leases are understood to have break options for BT to vacate premises after 15-years, providing redevelopment opportunities for central London sites such as Mondial House, Upper Thames Street and Fleet Building, Farringdon Street, both in EC4 - (09-04-2001)
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British Land has announced a joint venture with Westdeutsche Landesbank (WestLB), the German bank, to dispose of a 50 per cent interest in four London office properties and receive £358m cash. The four properties are One and 10 Fleet Place, 100 New Bridge Street, and Watling House on Cannon Street. The remainder of the venture will be owned by WestLB, and Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank and Provinzial-Feuerversicherungsanstalt Der Rheinprovinz-Versicherung Der Sparkassen. John Weston-Smith, finance director at British Land, has been reported as saying that the deal is "more than enough" to pay for current developments in the City of London. - (03-10-2000)
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