The national secretariat of UK regional development agencies has revealed a list of more than 500 RDA assets that are due to be sold by Communities and Local Government.
Assets up for sale include science parks, brownfield land and a greyhound stadium in Portsmouth. This document lists all the addresses of …

Vandalism to the Conservative Party’s headquarters on Millbank following yesterday’s student protest is set to cost tens of thousands of pounds to fix.
Yesterday, around 50,000 students protested against the government’s plan to charge students up to £9,000 per year for tuition fees from 2012, three times the current annual £3,290 …

Communities secretary Eric Pickles acted unlawfully in unilaterally revoking the system of regional planning strategies in England, the High Court has found today.
The court has given its judgment in the judicial review brought by housebuilder Cala Homes against the revocation of regional planning. It found that the secretary of state …

The government plans to introduce a bill next July that will allow local authorities to fund regeneration by borrowing against future business rate rises, using tax increment financing (TIF).
The Department for Communities and Local Government has today published a business plan setting out its policy objectives and its deadlines for …

This week, 1,300 professionals in the public and private sector gathered to talk about sweating publicly owned assets and financing regeneration.
They were attending the inaugural Public Property Summit in London on 1 and 2 November.
To see photos from the event and get a flavour of the atmosphere, take a look …

The government wants to keep its property vehicles in public ownership, Property Unit chief John McCready has told Public Property UK.
In an interview at the Public Property Summit this week, McCready said the vehicles in London and Bristol would need to be held by the public sector to help him …

Defence Estates, the Ministry of Defence’s property arm, will take a more centralised and strategic approach to its property following a government review being conducted by Lord Levene.
Levene was commissioned by the government to carry out a defence reform review, looking at how to make the MoD more efficient.
Speaking at …

Prime Minister David Cameron has set out a government’s plan for London’s East End to become a technology hub similar to Silicon Valley.
Speaking to technology business leaders in Shoreditch in London today, Cameron also announced that the Olympic Park media centre was to become flexible office space, facilities and expertise, …

Defence Estates, the Ministry of Defence’s property arm, is set to become a larger vehicle called Defence Infrastructure, with responsibility to provide facilities management and utilities to the department.
Speaking today at the Public Property Summit in London, Defence Estates deputy chief executive David Olney said the body was likely to …

The UK must grin and bear the coalition’s cuts in order to cut the deficit as Canada did during the 1990s, according to the former British high commissioner to Canada.
Speaking yesterday at the Public Property Summit in London, Sir Nicholas Bayne, who is also a fellow of the London School …