Plans are afoot for a major Grade A urban logistics space on a four-acre site on Factory Lane in Croydon, south London which could create up to 250 jobs. A joint venture between developer Chancerygate and SGN Place, the property development subs…
The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) has welcomed news of a new £55m government fund to support an energy transition for the UK’s industrial sector which comes in the wake of the association’s call for a major roll out of solar panels on wareho…
DP World’s terminal at London Gateway has handled its ten millionth container, nine years after the logistics hub launched, the company announced this week. DP World hailed the milestone as evidence of a “remarkable track record of growth” at Lo…
Parcel delivery firm Evri is to open a £60m parcel sortation hub in Barnsley next Tuesday (20 September). Named Colossus, the 341,000 sq ft facility is said to be the biggest of its kind in Europe and will sort 1.1 million parcels a day for onwa…
Panattoni has fully let its 335,430 sq ft logistics park in Borehamwood after signing lease agreements for the last three units with one of Europe’s largest television and film production companies. It has leased 300,000 sq ft at Panattoni Park …
Logistics development firm Tritax Symmetry is to speculatively build a 132,750 sq ft logistics facility on the last remaining plot at Symmetry Park Doncaster. Symmetry Park, which is located at Junction 34 of the A1 (M), is a £70m industrial and…
Belfast Harbour is set to build a new £9m warehouse at Westbank Road on the Harbour Estate to help meet growing demand from logistics operators as Ro-Ro traffic at the port reaches an all-time high, following Brexit. Belfast Harbour authorities …
Chancerygate is continuing its acquisition drive with the purchase of a 7.85-acre site in Adlington, Cheshire, in a joint venture with investment firm Bridges Fund Management. The site will be speculatively developed to provide 165,000sq ft of G…
Plans are in train to speculatively develop a major logistics and industrial park in Grays in Essex following the purchase of a 430,000 sq ft site at the Titan Industrial Estate. The 35-acre site has been bought by a joint venture (JV) between d…
Panattoni has secured planning consent for a 710,000sq ft speculative logistics development in Rotherham. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has approved a reserved matters planning application for two facilities adjacent to junction 1 of th…
The van sector’s transition to electric variants is still two years behind cars, despite having the same 2030 end of sale date, according to the SMMT. Amid latest figures showing that the light CV market declined for the seventh month in July, d…
Panattoni has agreed a relocation deal with pitched roof manufacturer Marley that involves it relocating to Panattoni Park Aylesford and Panattoni securing a prime site from Marley in Wrotham (pictured). The pre-let follows those to DHL, Fowler …
Enterprise Flex-E-Rent has become the first UK rental business to offer the highly specialist Multilift Commander container-handling HGV and is providing 14 vehicles to the joint venture between Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and BAM Nutt…
Logistics operators gave a thumbs up this week to National Highways’ plans to close motorways and A-roads for up to two weeks in order to speed up the delivery of roadworks. Other measures announced this week by National Highways include an incr…