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Office plans revived

Paddington application

City block may re-start

Contractor tipped

Midtown appointment

Contractor appointed

Consent for refurbishment

City site to progress

Central London - a Sack Full of Refurbs

Tower to start

Tower to start

Demolition to re-start

HQ refurbishment application

City scheme to start

Contractor appointed

Sale and pre-let

Mayfair scheme re-started

City demolition start

Moorgate start

City scheme gains impetus

Progress for Mayfair scheme

City demolition consent

Noho site sale

Re-design mooted for W1 scheme

City scheme tipped

West end construction start imminent

City scheme consent

Hanover demolition

City demolition start

Noho bids

Regent demolition

Re-design for EC4 scheme

City consent

Revised application for EC4 scheme

Mayfair consent

Bank HQ underway

Demolition start in EC4

New Court plans advance

West End start mooted

Midtown shortlist

Revised plans for Moorgate scheme

City pre-let

Walbrook Square rumour

Consent for major EC4 scheme

City redevelopment scheduled for autumn

Appointment for Schroders

Mayfair site pre-planning

Application for EC4 scheme

Application for huge City scheme

Moorgate scheme planned

City schemes planned

Station sites shortlist

Consent for St Giles

Bovis Bow Bells.

L&R preferred for M&S HQ

Bow Bells House start mooted

Beetham buys 10 Stamford Street

Selfridges delay £300m W1 scheme

Bovis favourite for 51 Lime Street, EC3

South Kensington scheme

Stanhope to develop 10 Blackfriars Road

City gives thumbs up to new tower

London Stock Exchange considers bids

Selfridges shortlist down to two

Northern House acquired by Asticus

Treasury scheme to go ahead

J&H Marsh & McLennan still to decide on developer

Bovis awarded contract for MidCity Place

Redevelopment plans for Walker House EC4 submitted

Stanhope said to be bidding with British Land for Tower Place

Developers shortlisted for Bowring Tower

Bank of America linked to More London Bridge

Stanhope win Noho

Stanhope is now the developer of the NoHo Square scheme in Mortimer Street, London, W1. The 1.3ha (3 acre) NoHo site was owned by Kaupthing, the Icelandic bank, but a £50m deal will see Stanhope in control of a joint venture. It is thought that Kaupthing will write off £200m of debt on the project. The planned 82,776 sq m (891,000 sq ft) of luxury apartments and 32,980 sq m (355,000 sq ft) of offices is expected to be redesigned with a media industry focus. - (21-03-2009)

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Mayfair scheme for March 2009

Completion of D2 Private's 9,300 sq m (100,000 sq ft) speculative office building at 23 Savile Row, Mayfair, London, W1, designed by Eric Parry Architects, is expected in March 2009. The development manager of the scheme, which also has retail on the ground floor and six flats on the top two floors, is Stanhope. Mace is the main contractor at the old English Heritage Fortress House HQ. - (05-12-2008)

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Demolition start at Central St Giles

Demolition work is underway at Legal & General and Stanhope's Central St Giles scheme in London WC2. The 37,522 sq m (403,883 sq ft) development will provide 37,160 sq m (400,000 sq ft) of offices, 100 apartments in two residential towers, ground floor retail space and two public squares. Completion is expected in october 2009. - (16-03-2007)

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Treasury Office completed

Work on the 450,000 sq ft refurbishment of the Treasury Office (Phase 2) on Great George Street is to complete next week. The Foster & Partners designed scheme has been project managed by Stanhope under the Exchange Partners Consortium banner. Bovis Lend Lease has been acting as main contractor and Gardiner & Theobald was the Quantity Surveyor. - (12-11-2004)

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Listing throws puts plans in doubt

South Kensington Tube station has just been listed by the Culture Secretary and could thow into doubt plans by Stanhope and Hutchison Whampoa for gaining planning consent for a new office and retails scheme. Proposals for a Terry Farrell & Partners designed 11-storey tower and shopping centre were withdrawn last month following local protests. South Kensington Tube station was built in 1868 and the listing is intended to presenrve original features designed by Sir John Fowler for the Metropolitan and District Railway. - (09-09-2004)

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Kings Cross Central plans unveiled

After a gap of 15-year new outline plans have been announced for the 28ha (67-acre) Kings Cross site in London, NW1. The Kings Cross Central development in totola will provide 743,218 sq m (8m sq ft) of mixed-use space to be developed by Argent St George with Exel and London & Continental Railways, the landowners. The main site is bounded by the Euston Road, York Way, St Pancras Station and Kings Cross Station. The 1980’s proposals by Rosehaugh and Stanhope included two Sir Norman Foster skyscrapers as part of a £3.5bn redevelopment. The new plans are for a £2bn scheme and involve the renovation of 20 historic buildings and providing 483,091 sq m (5.2m sq ft) of office space, 47,194 sq m (508,000 sq ft) of hotel space, 45,893 sq m (494,000 sq ft) of retail and leisure uses, 8,454 sq m (91,000 sq ft) of cenemas, and 75,715 sq m (815,000 sq ft) of community and education and cultural space, to include an art gallery and museum. At lease 1,800 homes will also be built. Construction work on the major elements of the scheme cannot start until the Channel Tunnel rail Link is completed in 2007. - (05-06-2004)

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L&G appoints on Bucklersbury House

Legal & General has appointed French architect Jean Nouvel to design the redevelopment of Bucklersbury House in London, EC4. Jean Nouvel has previously been involved in early concept designs at Canary Wharf and will work in collaboration with Foster & Partners. Stanhope has been appointed as the development manager. The 1.3ha (3-acre) site is bounded by Cannon Street, Queen Victoria Street and Walbrook and includes Bucklersbury House, Temple Court and 9, Queen Victoria Street. The new development could provide a 139,353 sq m (1.5m sq ft) mixed-use office and retail scheme. - (30-03-2004)

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L&G unveils St Giles Court plans

Legal & General and Stanhope have unveiled designs for a mixed-use 46,451 sq m (500,000 sq ft) for St Giles Court, St Giles High Street, off Oxford Street, London WC2. The scheme has been designed by the Italian architect, Renzo Piano and includes offices, restaurants and retail based around a new semi-covered public space. The scheme also includes 100 housing units. The scheme would require the demolition of L&G’s 18,600 sq m (200,000 sq ft) St Giles Court office block, currently occupied by the Ministry of Defence on a lease until 2011. At present public consultation into the propsals is underway and a planning application could be submitted to London Borough of Camden later this year. - (16-02-2004)

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Unilever submits new plans

Unilever has submitted a new planning application for the redevelopment of it’s 35,303 sq m (380,000 sq ft) headquarters building Unilever House, Victoria Embankment, London EC4. The scheme is to be developed by Stanhope and has been designed by KPF Architects. The façade of the Grade II listed building is to be retained and rear sections rebuilt. If planning and listed building consents are granted the scheme could start in summer 2004 with completion in mid-2006. Unilever is to accommodate staff at 60, Victoria Embankment, London, W1 before re-occupying the Unilever House. - (31-01-2004)

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Paternoster Square to open

Paternoster Square is to be opened to the public in mid-September and the development will be officially opened in November. The opening will be the culmination of a 15-year development saga. The site was acquired in 1986 by the Paternoster Consortium, including British Land, Unilever and Barclays Bank, and had Stanhope as the developer. However, after four changes of ownership the development has been completed by MEC (Mitsubishi Estates). - (03-09-2003)

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Caxton Hall office scheme

Caxton Hall, the Grade II listed former Westminster registry office, in London SW1, is to be redeveloped as office and apartments. The building on the Broadway and Christchurch Gardens conservation area has been vacant for about 20-years. Amberswift Limited and Stanhope plc have submitted a planning application to Westminster City Council, for a scheme designed by Foggo Associates, to restore the building and create 13 flats and also build a nine-storey 5,000 sq m (53,820 sq ft) office building at the rear of the site. - (10-02-2003)

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Regent Street permission

The Crown Estate has gained planning permission for its redevelopment plans at 229-247 Regent Street, London W1. The development will provide 10,683 sq m (115,000 sq ft) of offices above 5,388 sq m (58,000 sq ft) of retail and leisure space in three units. The scheme will also include 10 apartments. The development manager for the £200m scheme is Stanhope and the scheme is expected to start on-site in early 2003 for completion in spring 2005. The Crown Estate has also submitted planning applications for three other blocks at 185-191 Regent Street, 132-154 Regent Street and 13-17 New Burlington Place. CB Hillier Parker is advising the Crown Estate. - (10-11-2002)

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King Cross 'vision' appears

The latest plans for Kings Cross have been unveiled by Argent, and partners London & Continental Railways and St George, pending an outline planning application being submitted for the 29ha (72-acre) site. The last major plans for Kings Cross were by Rosehaugh Stanhope in the late 1980's when over 6m sq ft of office space was proposed. In the mixed-use 'vision' office development is contained in blocks 4 and 5 as the 'Southern Hub' and also in Blocks 7 and 8 to the rear of the site. The office blocks range between 8-25 storeys, with the potential to go higher. The remainder of the scheme includes retail, residential and leisure uses and the total floorspace of all uses is between 7m to 8.6m sq ft. Jones Lang LaSalle is advising on the development, which will not be able to start before 2007. - (06-10-2002)

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Stanhope and Crown Estate make plans

Stanhope plc is to be The Crown Estate's development partner in the £200m mixed-use (including 100,000 sq ft of offices) regeneration of Regent Street in Central London. A planning application for the scheme was submitted to Westminster City Council in June and is currently under consideration. The scheme includes provision of state-of-the-art residential, retail and office space. 229-247 Regent Street, between Hanover Street and Princes Street, near Oxford Circus, is the first phase of the scheme. It will contain almost 180,000 sq ft of space. This will include around 100,000 sq ft of offices and 60,000 sq ft of retail space, including 30,000 sq ft for flagship store. - (19-11-2001)

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NAO reviews Treasury scheme

A review of the private finance initiative (PFI) approach on the Treasury and Ministry of Defence buildings in Whitehall, London SW1 has been launched by the National Audit Office, parliament's spending watchdog. The NAO has said that I will produce separate reports on the Treasury and MoD contracts, which are worth about £500m and £1.6bn respectively. The Treasury's Grade II listed building is being refurbished by the Exchequer Partnership, a consortium involving Chesterton, Stanhope and Bovis Lend Lease. The MoD's Grade I listed main building in Whitehall is being refurbished by Modus Services, a consortium comprising Amey, McQuarie Infrastructure, John Laing and Innisfree. Internal demolition work on the MoD's building will start in September. - (25-08-2001)

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Greycoat to advise Exchange

Greycoat is to advise the London Stock Exchange on the redevelopment of its site on Old Broad Street, London EC2. The LSE will relocate from its 15,793 sq m (170,000 sq ft) of office space in the 26-storey Exchange Tower in 2004. City Offices, owned and operated by the management of Greycoat, is thought to have beaten rival Stanhope to the consultancy role. The Stock Exchange is being advised by Insignia Richard Ellis. - (14-07-2001)

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Selfridges loses tower

The Selfridges scheme in Duke Street, W1, planned as a mixed-use retail, residential and office development, will not now include a 20-storey tower. The idea of the tower is said to have been thrown out by Westminster planners. Instead the scheme could include 18,580 sq m (200,000 sq ft) of offices, a 250-bed hotel, 80 apartments and 9,290 sq m (100,000 sq ft) of additional retail space. The £250m project is a joint venture between Selfridges and Stanhope Developments and is being designed by Norman Foster & Partners. - (09-06-2001)

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Sainsbury plans SE1 towers

Foster & Partners has revealed plans for a 35,765 sq m (385,000 sq ft) 19-storey oval office tower to replace food retailers Sainsbury's existing Drury House and Stamford House headquarters at Stamford Street, London SE1. Sainsbury is linked with Stanhope on the proposals. A planning application for the £270m scheme has just been submitted to London Borough of Southwark along with an application for a second new building on the firm's car park site in Maymott Street. The tower has a tapered 'neck' and a low-rise office block forms the base. A Sainsbury's 'Central' supermarket could be incorporated in the ground floor. The 14,490 sq m (156,000 sq ft) Maymott Street scheme could cost £70m and is planned as a 22-storey tower designed by architect Lifschutz Davidson. Sainsbury is working on the site assembly for the scheme and is said to be in the process of acquiring Wakefield House and 19-21 Blackfriars Road from Dunloe Ewart, the developer. Sainsbury is thought to be seeking to develop around 46,451 sq m (500,000 sq ft) in the various SE1 developments for completion in 2004. Sainsbury is still thought to be considering its options on the 11,150 sq m (120,000 sq ft) Rennie House, on the south side of Stamford Street. Sainsbury staff will relocate to 33 Holborn Place, London WC1, to allow the headquarters development to proceed. Healey & Baker is advising Sainsbury. - (22-04-2001)

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British Land may buy 51 Lime Street

British Land and Stanhope are said to be in negotiations to buy 51 Lime Street, London EC3 from Lloyd's of London. There is speculation that the building could be replaced with a 37,160 sq m (400,000 sq ft) office block. Built in 1958 51 Lime Street was the headquarters of Lloyd's, before it moved to the head office designed by Lord Rogers, and now accommodates about 200 staff from Lloyd's legal and regulatory departments. The building is on the market through DTZ Debenham Tie Leung. - (13-11-2000)

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Selfridges selects Stanhope

Selfridges, the department store group, has appointed Stanhope to develop land at the rear of its Oxford Street store in London W1. The £250m scheme will include an hotel, to replace the existing Thistle hotel, apartments, a 9,290 sq m (100,000 sq ft) increase in retail space, and office space. Selfridges will give Stanhope a 175-year lease on the development and share in profits on the scheme. Architect Foster & Partners is also part of the development team. Stanhope was selected over rival developer British Land and about 17 other bidders. Discussion with Westminster City Council will take place this year and planning permission could be granted in 2001. The project is expected to be completed in 2006. - (03-11-2000)

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