All Property and Planning articles
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NewsLidl to open nine new stores within the next month
The nine openings include four brand new locations, in Canning Town, Preston, Walsall, and Wombourne
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NewsAldi planning to create more than 1,600 store jobs in 2025
The discounter – which now has more than 1,050 stores, up by about 10 since December – said the jobs would result from a previously announced plan to invest £650m in further expansion in 2025
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NewsPret a Manger opens first shop in Africa, in Johannesburg
South Africa is the 20th international market for the sandwich chain
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Comment & OpinionTravel hubs are an open goal for creative food retail
It’s time to break the travel hospitality mould and surpass expectations, says Dougie Hastings, strategy director at Yonder Consulting
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NewsAldi to open nine new stores in London in 2025
The discounter is investing £55m in expansion in the capital
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Comment & OpinionM&S Oxford Street demolition will be a huge blunder
Orchard House is a handsome 1929 stone building – I’ll bet whatever replaces it will be utilitarian and architecturally meritless, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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NewsAldi to invest £650m in expansion in 2025, adding 30 new stores
‘We recognise there are still areas without an Aldi store, so our expansion plans for 2025 are designed to address some of these gaps,’ said Aldi UK chief Giles Hurley
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NewsCity snapshot: M&S wins approval for Marble Arch redevelopment
Marks & Spencer has been given approval to demolish its flagship Marble Arch store on London’s Oxford Street
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NewsLidl ‘accelerates’ store opening plans with six stores in one day
It marks a new period of “accelerated“ expansion for the discounter, following a slowdown of its rollout over recent years
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NewsAldi continues pre-Christmas store rollout with four new sites in one day
Aldi has set the long-term target of opening 1,500 UK stores, and intends to invest £1.4bn into its store estate by the end of 2025
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NewsPlanet Organic ‘forced’ to close another store after failing to agree new lease
The Spitalfields store is the third Planet Organic closed since founder Renée Elliott’s return to the business
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NewsOut of town retailers damaging high streets, warns Lords committee
The Built Environment Committee has made a series of recommendations for boosting high streets, while giving its support to the government’s business rates reform plans
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NewsSupermarkets already rethinking investment plans as business rates bill gets second reading
The proposed changes could add hundreds of millions in tax on large supermarkets
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NewsScottish Retail Consortium calls for business rates relief for shops amid ‘spiralling’ statutory costs
The letter to Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison says the increase in employers’ national insurance in the UK budget has added £190 million in annual costs to Scotland’s retailers
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NewsB&M to open 700,000 sq ft import and distribution centre in Ellesmere Port
The retailer has signed a 10-year lease with real estate investor Cain International, with the site due to commence operation in 2025
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NewsTesco reveals plan to open 150 new Express convenience stores
Tesco is marking 30 years since opening its first c-stores in the UK, in Barnes and Norbury, London, in 1994
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NewsHigher business rates aimed at ‘online giants’ will hit 1,900 superstores and hypermarkets
Across England and Wales, the proposed tax hike will hit more superstores and hypermarkets than it will large distribution warehouses, according to analysis by property consultancy Colliers
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NewsRetail will be hit with additional £7bn in costs from next year, industry chiefs warn Chancellor
Costs including rising employers’ national insurance will make job losses and price rises inevitable according to the letter orchestrated by the BRC, which calls for a meeting with Rachel Reeves to discuss measures to reduce the impact
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Comment & OpinionWhy physical retail will be punished by government’s business rates reforms
Rather than promising to level the playing field between online giants and the high street, Labour should have simply said it planned to make the biggest businesses pay for a tax cut for smaller ones
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NewsSupermarket Income REIT buys 113,000 sq ft Sainsbury’s for £50m
It joins the real estate investment trust’s omnichannel-focused portfolio of more than 70 supermarkets across the country, including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons sites