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Midtown scheme start

Mixed use scheme consent

Southbank re-design

Central London - a Sack Full of Refurbs

Paddington tower mooted

Clerkenwell start

Knightsbridge redevelopment

Gem underway

Southbank application

Contractor appointed on tower

RCP agrees Euston deal

Application in Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge refurbishment

SE1 refurbishment plan

SE1 scheme start

City office conversion

Application for SE1 scheme

Gem delayed

City scheme refused

Shard to start

City application

LandSecs plans refused

Shard further funding

Refurbishment mooted in EC4

London Bridge architect

Moorvale to complete by 2009

Offices on hold

Tower Bridge scheme objection

Station scheme for SE1

SE1 redevelopment plan

Demolition at "Baby Shard" on horizon

City refurbishment start

Demolition in SE1

Mayfair refurbishment

Mixed use scheme for Knightsbridge

Terrace Hill acquire

Progress on EC4 site

Hammersmith site

Preparation for More London building

More buildings for Aldgate

Consent in EC4

Application for EC4 newbuild

New developer for City scheme

Consent for SE1 offices

Paddington building let on completion

Start date for tower

Tower Bridge office application

New scheme for London Bridge

Refurbishment in SW1

Victoria scheme start expected

Vauxhall scheme plan

New scheme planned for London Bridge

Paddington office scheme planned

Shortlist for DevSec Paddington scheme.

Redab's London office schemes

Q4 2005 start for Abford House?

Bridge House redevelopment in EC4

WSP lined up for 'shard'

Taylor Woodrow sells K2

The 'Shard of Glass' is approved

Sellar & CLS go next door

Stanhope to develop 10 Blackfriars Road

Shard of Glass Inquiry underway

Ropemaker to demolish in Knightsbridge

Go east young man?

New owner for K2?

Hammerson to acquire Railtrack sites

Ronson forecasts skyscraper demise

One Westminster Bridge consent

Enquiry into 'Shard of Glass'

Frogmore to split Westminster Bridge?

Prudential to sell site

"Shard of Glass" approved

Delancey gains consent

More completions

JWT to move next spring

Legal & General fund Frogmore scheme

Home stretch for London Bridge Tower.

Speculative phase to begin at More London Bridge?

CLS takes over Citadel Holdings

'Concept' for London Bridge Tower revealed

Speculative schemes set to increase

Latest London investment sales

Bovis appointed on Knightsbridge Green, SW1

Europe's tallest office planned for London Bridge

GLA on-site at More London Bridge

New scheme submitted for Island site, SE1

Knightsbridge Green goes to Hong Kong group

Railtrack reveals plans for London Bridge

Knightsbridge Green under offer

CIT rumoured to be close to signing Malmaison

Bank of America linked to More London Bridge

Passport Agency to transfer 300 staff.

Victoria scheme letting

Group 4 Security (G4S) division, has signed to take 567 sq m (6,105 sq ft) of offices on the 8th floor at the recently-completed 'The Peak' office scheme at 331-333 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1. CB Richard Ellis was the letting agent. - (25-11-2011)

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Shard letting agents

London Bridge Quarter has announced the appointment of office letting agents for both the Shard and London Bridge Place, London, SE1. Jones Lang LaSalle and Knight Frank have been instructed on the Shard, and CB Richard Ellis and Colliers International advising on London Bridge Place. - (16-11-2010)

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Green light for Shard

Sellar Property is likely to start construction of the Shard tower in London, SE1 later in 2008, after a finance package was agreed with Qatari-backed consortium - the Qatari Islamic Investment bank QInvest, Qatar National Bank and Qatari Islamic Bank. Sellar will remain the developer for completion of Shard of Glass tower and 55,740 sq m (600,000 sq ft) New London Bridge House in 2011. The schemes were designed by Renzo Piano. Cushman & Wakefield advised on planning, and Mace is project manager. - (01-02-2008)

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Shard demolition plans

Teighmore, the consortium consisting of Sellar Property, CLS and Simon Halabi, is hoping to start demolition at the London Bridge Station (Shard of Glass) site in London, SE1, in mid October 2007. The demolition will take seven months. The main construction contract will not start until funding is in place but a Middle Eastern bank is said to be considering financing the £1bn scheme. Completion of the development is expected in 2010 or 2011. - (18-09-2007)

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LRP planning Vauxhall scheme

London & Regional Properties has said that reports on its proposals for the Vauxhall Cross island site, opposite Vauxhall Bridge, London, SW8, are inaccurate. The developer has been linked to plans to develop a mixed-use scheme with 9,290 sq m (100,000 sq ft) of offices and residential units. It appears that the size and mix of the scheme has not yet been decided upon. - (26-05-2005)

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CIS plans big scheme in Victoria area

Co-Op Investment Services is planning to renovate Abford House at 333 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, London SW1. The company will soon submit an application to refurbish the nine-storey building into 13,935 sq m (150,000 sq ft) of offices. Gerald Eve is the planning consultant. - (03-12-2004)

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Parabola submits Kings Cross scheme

Parabola Land has submitted a planning application to London Borough of Islington for an eight-storey 27,870 sq m (300,000 sq ft) office scheme overlooking the Regent’s Canal in Kings Cross, London N1. The scheme will also include an arts centre and gallery along with a café and restaurant. The development, designed by architect Dixon Jones, is to be known as Kings Place, and is on a 0.6ha (1.3-acre) site bounded by York Way, the Regent’s Canal and Battlesbridge Basin. - (06-09-2003)

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Cannon Bridge sold for £167m

The headquarters of the London International Financial Futures & Options Exchange (LIFFE) has been sold in a £167m deal, a yield of about 7.9%. The 250-year lease on the 26,477 sq m (285,000 sq ft) building at Dowgate Hill, off Cannon Street EC4, has been acquired by Fordgate, a secretive private property group run by the Gertner brothers. The deal, one off the biggest this year, shows a profit for Pillar Properties, which paid Railtrack and General Electric £64m for the building in 1995. Pillar sold a 75% stake in the building to the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, the US pension fund, in 2000 for about £140m. Liffe occupies about half of the Canon Bridge building and has a 'rolling' tenant break. The rest of the space is occupied by Standard Chartered Bank and Winterflood Securities. In July 78 Cannon Street, adjoining Cannon Bridge, was sold by Marylebone Warwick Balfour (MWB) to Hines, the US property developer, for £53.3m. In the 1980's developer Speyhawk was considering linking the two buildings and there must still be potential for longer term redevelopment. Pillar and Teachers were advised by FPD Savills. - (06-10-2002)

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Riverside back on the market

The Financial Times, owned by Pearson, will not now occupy office space at The Riverside Building on Southwark Bridge SE1. The 8,469 sq m (91,160 sq ft) Riverside Building is being developed by Chelsfield and is now back on the market through Healey & Baker. The building should be completed in May 2002. Last year Stephen Hill, the FT Group chief executive, was keen to build an "FT Campus" in Southwark but the plans now seemed to have changed. - (26-10-2001)

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English Heritage "spikes" tower

English Heritage has likened the proposals by Renzo Piano for the 300m high Sellar "shard of glass" skyscraper at London Bridge to a "spike through the heart of the Tower of London". The opposition from English Heritage will prompt a public inquiry into the proposals, leading to the scheme being determined by the new Environment Secretary Stephen Byers. English Heritage at the same meeting supported proposals for two residential towers at Lots Road power station in Chelsea, undoubtably far enough away from any heritage sites, and regarded by English Heritage as "two high quality tall buildings which we think will enhance river views and the skyline of this part of London without damaging the historic environment." It may be sometime before we hear such comments from English Heritage about an office tower in the City of London. - (02-07-2001)

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Victoria plans revived

Plans by Railtrack to redevelop the major rail interchanges in central London continues apace. A £250m mixed-use redevelopment scheme for Victoria Station, London SW1, first mooted in the mid-1990's, is being revived. Railtrack is said to be working on a revised masterplan for the Victoria site, which could see an office and retail development of about 46,451 sq m (500,000 sq ft) built at the station. The latest scheme seems likely to integrate a new bus terminal within the scheme with offices above. In addition to the Victoria proposals Railtrack is currently working on plans for 'office-led' mixed-use schemes at Paddington, London Bridge, Kings Cross and with Pillar at Cricklewood, north London. There have also been rumours of investigations by Railtrack on the potential of redeveloping at Waterloo. At Victoria, Railtrack is said to be about to undertake a study, along with other developers with schemes in the area, to assess the level of demand. The developers could include Land Securities, Grosvenor Estate, and Howard Ronson International. The total future potential of developments in the Victoria area amount to over 1.5m sq ft of office space. An end-user 'demand' survey would be no doubt be helpful as at present everyone seems to be chasing Enron, the US energy company, which has the largest known West End requirement. - (26-03-2001)

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Ernst & Young confirm SE1 pre-let

Ernst & Young, the accountancy firm, has confirmed that it is to take about 35,767 sq m (385,000 sq ft) at CIT's More London Bridge development in London SE1. Ernst & Young is said to be taking Building 1A, with an option to take a further 10,684 sq m (115,000 sq ft) in the linked Building 1B. The firm's relocation in early 2003 could release up to 12 buildings onto the market, including Rolls House, 7 Rolls Buildings, London EC4 and Becket House and York House, London SE1. DTZ Debenham Tie Leung is advising Ernst & Young. - (25-03-2001)

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"Shard of glass" revealed

The designs for the £350m skyscraper at London Bridge station, SE1 have just been unveiled. The 66-storey tapering glass tower, designed by Renzo Piano and Broadway Malyan, for developer the Sellar Property Group, will, if built, be the tallest in Europe at 1,016 ft tall. The lower half of the tower is planned as a 27-storey 55,741 sq m (600,000 sq ft) office block, with the upper 15-storey as a hotel and apartment complex. A planning application for the "shard of glass", otherwise known as the London Bridge Tower, could be submitted to the London Borough of Southwark next week. The scheme has been reduced by about 14-storey following initial comments from CABE, the architectural advisory body. There seems little doubt that this scheme, along with Heron's Bishopsgate tower, will become the centre of debate, around which London local government and advisory bodies will finally have to establish an agreed policy towards tall buildings. - (20-03-2001)

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Ernst & Young to More London Bridge?

A report in this weeks Sunday Business has said that Ernst & Young has decided to relocate to purpose built offices on the South Bank. Ernst & Young had been linked to taking office space at One Westminster Bridge but following the decision to refuse planning approval it is possible that the firm is now again looking closely at taking space at CIT's More London Bridge in SE1. Ernst & Young has in the past been linked to Plot 4 at More London Bridge for a 40,864 sq m (439,865 sq ft) building. - (25-02-2001)

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Mayor directs first office refusal

The saga of One Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 continues. Lambeth Council has now been directed by the Mayor of London to refuse the 28,000 sq m (301,392 sq ft) Frogmore Estates scheme. The decision seems to be based on design grounds and the scheme "being contrary to good strategic planning". The refusal of the Gensler designed scheme comes after Lambeth granted planning permission, subject to a section 106 agreement and the views of the Mayor, following a redesign. - (25-02-2001)

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FT expands in SE1

The Financial Times, owned by Pearson, has a requirement for additional office space and is said to ahve pre-let The Riverside Building, opposite the FT's headquarters, at Southwark Bridge, London SE1. The building recently started construction and should be completed to shell & core early next year, with occupation by summer 2002. It is said Stephen Hill, the FT Group chief executive, is keen to build an "FT Campus" in Southwark. - (28-01-2001)

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Heron Tower wins planning consent

110 Bishopsgate, the planned 43-storey Heron Tower, in London EC3 has been approved by the Corporation of London planning committee. The scheme, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, will now go to the Court of Common Council on 1st February 2001. The tower was approved despite objections by English Heritage, which said the building would affect the views of St Paul's from Waterloo Bridge. The Heron Tower will be the tallest building in the City of London but will appear lower than Tower 42 (the former NatWest Tower) as it is to be built on lower-lying land. - (18-01-2001)

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Revised skyscraper design unveiled

A revised design for a 80-storey skyscraper at London Bridge station, by Italian architect Renzo Piano, is now being put forward by developer Irvine Sellar. The 390m (1,279 ft) tower will include 65,031 sq m (700,000 sq ft) of offices and 18,580 sq m (200,000 sq ft) of flats along with hotel and retail space. A planning application could be submitted to the London Borough of Southwark by the end of the year but is likely to be determined by the Greater London Authority. The skyscraper would not be completed before 2005 and construction costs are put at £300m. Bovis Lend Lease is the project manager. The scheme is unlikely to proceed without a major pre-let and the developer is said to be in discussion with firms including Pricewaterhouse Coopers. - (13-11-2000)

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MEPC sells Alban Gate

MEPC, the property company, has sold Alban Gate, London Wall, London EC2 for around £157m to CIT (Capital and Income Trust). Alban Gate is a 34,373 sq m (370,000 sq ft) building largely occupied by Chase Manhattan, the US bank. MEPC is also to dispose of its Scottish subsidiary, Caledonian Land for a further £150m. The sales are part of MEPC's disposal programme, which will leave the company focussed on its business park developments in Basingstoke, Warrington, Cambridge, Abingdon and Leavesden. - (05-11-2000)

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MEPC may sell London properties

MEPC, the property company, is said to be close to completing the sale of several London properties to Benchmark for around £250m. The deal could see London overtake Tokyo as the city with the highest office prices. Benchmark is said to have an exclusivity agreement on the portfolio, which includes a 18,580 sq m (200,000 sq ft) block near Cambridge Circus, 90 Long Acre and 12 St James's Square. The Cambridge Circus building is priced at £80m and is let to BT, with about four years remaining on the lease. The property is seen as a possible refurbishment or redevelopment opportunity. The Long Acre building is partly owned by property group Asticus and is priced at £70m. 12 St James's Square, MEPC's former headquarters, is priced at £56m. - (08-10-2000)

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British Land announces deal with WestLB

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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One Westminster Bridge refused permission

On 19th September 2000 the London Borough of Lambeth refused planning permission for Frogmore's proposed redevelopment of the former Count Hall Island block in SE1. The Gensler designed scheme, known as One Westminster Bridge, was refused permission following criticism from CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment). Lambeth Councillor Kevin Craig has been reported as saying "We did not feel that this was an application we could support since it is a world heritage site and next to a listed building". Frogmore is understood to be likely to appeal against the decision. - (24-09-2000)

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