Nottingham City Council has pulled out of sponsoring the city’s trip to MIPIM 2011, the property conference  in Cannes.
The council, which has had an annual presence at the festival in the past five years, announced today that spending cuts would force it to pull out next year.
Announcing the move, council …

England’s regional development agencies have lost 424  staff in total since the general election in May, Public Property UK can reveal.
The bodies, which are due to be abolished by April 2012 and employ around 2,500 staff, have recently finished a first wave of voluntary redundancies and are set to cut …

Development consultant Interserve has won contracts to extend schools in the Midlands and Yorkshire worth £42m.
The largest is a £23m improvement programme at the Farnley Park High School in Leeds, which is being carried out as part of the Building Schools for the Future Programme. Work has just started and …

As property braces itself for the Comprehensive Spending Review, Nick Johnstone considers the repercussions of a “once-in-a-century” moment in government property policy.
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A scruffy 200,000 sq ft office block is about to come on to the market in Edinburgh. Its occupier, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), is cutting costs …

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has awarded Derby College’s £48m regeneration scheme the Roundhouse campus its project of the year award.
Today, the RICS named the winners of its 2010 awards at the Guildhall in London. The 194,000 sq ft Roundhouse campus is a vocational skills college for 2,500 …

Francis Maude has announced that 192  government quangos are set to be axed, and a further 289 to be reformed.
This morning, Cabinet Office minister Maude published the definitive list of bodies to be scrapped including the Infrastructure Planning Commission and development corporations in the Thames Gateway.
The Homes and Communities Agency …

Stephen Hollowood, executive director and head of public sector at GVA Grimley, looks at which parts of the UK will be hit hardest by next Wednesday’s comprehensive spending review:
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The much-anticipated comprehensive spending review will announce funding cuts across all parts of the public sector, although more so for some …

The government is expected to give the go ahead to up to 26 of the 56 local partnerships that are due to replace regional development agencies.
Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Greater Birmingham are three of the local enterprise partnerships that the government is expected to approve.
These groups will be given powers …

Three local authorities are taking legal action  against the government for axing the £55bn Building Schools for the Future programme.
Labour-run councils in Nottingham, Luton and Waltham Forest have all called for a judicial review of the decision, taken by education secretary Michael Gove in July.
Nottingham City Council has lodged papers …

Trade unions voted to support strikes against public sector spending cuts at the Trades Union Congress annual conference in Manchester yesterday.
Unions said they would resist government plans to cut £83bn of public spending over the next four years, which threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs in the public sector. Members …