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 Ministry of Defence (MoD) has terminated plans to rationalise its training facilities into a single base at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales.
The £14bn private finance initiative project was to involve building a large defence training college in order to vacate sites elsewhere in the country.
The …

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 …

DTZ has been appointed by the Welsh Assembly Government to assess the impact of green energy projects on ports across Wales.
The work involves identifying and reviewing green energy developments which may impact on Welsh ports, including wind, tidal and wave energy projects.
DTZ’s study will also look at using ports to …

The Welsh Assembly government has appointed Amber Infrastructure and Lambert Smith Hampton to manage a £55m EU-backed Welsh regeneration fund.

It has hired Amber as fund manager and Lambert Smith Hampton as investment manager for the Regeneration Investment Fund for Wales.
The money, which is drawn from the European Regional Development Fund, …

The consortium set to build and manage a £12bn military training base for the Ministry of Defence in Wales has today applied to build facilities on the site, including a military museum and a church.
Metrix, which wants to open the Defence Training College in St Athan in 2014, has already …

The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) has received its first formal planning applications this week, and has 28 days to accept or reject it.
An overhead electricity line in Neath, Port Talbot, and a biomass energy plant in Bedfordshire are the first to be considered by the IPC, which is being dismantled …

Flintshire County Council in Wales has awarded a £6.1m school building contract to local contractor Read Construction.
Read has been hired to build a new infant school in Connor’s Quay and demolish two old school buildings to create the site for its playing fields as part of the agreement.
Construction is hoped …