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Link to bueker.net web site |
And the times it nearly happened...
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Link to read a bit more |
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Link to Brent & Kilburn Times |
"We have already transformed nearly every estate in the borough, but this is an area which is in need of change."
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Link to Daily Telegraph |
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Link to The Guardian |
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Link to Evening Standard |
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Link to BBC web site and iPlayer |
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Link to The Independent |
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(Planning Minister Greg Clark)
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Link to The Observer |
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Link to The Guardian |
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Link to Daily Telegraph |
"February's UK retail sales figures leave the recovery on the High Street looking a bit more fragile than it previously seemed ...
So, with yesterday's Budget doing little to ease the burden of the next round of austerity measures due to hit households in April, the high street recovery looks set to be short-lived again."
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Link to The Guardian |
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Link to The Guardian |
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Link to Number 10 and video |
"...The truth is that no government in Britain in living memory has set out a sufficiently comprehensive and ambitious vision of this country’s infrastructure needs. And by a comprehensive and ambitious vision, I do not just mean a list of projects; I mean an overall system, an integrated set of networks that collectively deliver the economic and social goods."As well as this failure of vision, there has also been a failure of financing. Everybody knows that infrastructure is expensive; one academic assessment puts the bill at £500 billion just to meet our current commitments. And we cannot hide from the fact that new infrastructure has to be paid for either by those who use it, by government, or by a combination of the two."
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Link to BBC web site |
Film-maker Charles Honderick Link to Barnet Times |
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Link to Evening Standard |
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Link to Hammerson web site |
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Link to Annual Report 2011 (Feb. 2012) |
"Hammerson has been creating and managing some of the most exciting retail destinations and office buildings in Europe for over 60 years. Hammerson’s vision is to be the best owner-manager and developer of retail property within Europe. We specialise in prime regional shopping centres and convenient retail parks."Our aim is to outperform through two areas of focus:
- income growth, and
- high quality property
both of which are underpinned by our capital strength."
"Hammerson's business model is to:
- Own prime properties in the best locations
- Ensure buildings are modern, well maintained and relevant for customers
- Maintain significant scale in key markets
- Retail property specialism to foster innovation
- Ensure venues are positively differentiated from competition
- Drive income growth through optimum tenant mix and high occupancy.
"Our revised strategy will enhance the focus on income growth and efficiency, and therefore we anticipate being able to grow dividends at a higher rate than in recent years.
"We have leading positions in both the UK and French retail property markets, where we will increase our presence in successful locations through development or acquisition. We will concentrate on regionally dominant shopping centres, convenient retail parks and premium designer outlet villages. Our intention is to remain an active recycler of capital in order to secure opportunities to create higher returns for shareholders.
"Within our London office portfolio, we will continue to implement our business plans to increase the value of our office assets and developments. Our intention is to sell our standing office investments over the medium-term to maximise value. We have a small number of London office development projects and strategic mixed-use sites that offer superior returns, where we will continue to allocate capital to increase the overall value of the projects. Where appropriate, we will introduce funding or JV capital to de-risk projects and reduce our overall commitment."
"European governments are increasingly focused on community engagement. At a national and local level we work with key stakeholders to align our community investment strategy with local priorities and needs. This was evident in our response to the civil unrest that occurred in the UK during the summer of 2011. We implemented a coordinated response to manage both the immediate and long-term impacts in the areas where we operate. We provided finance, skills and expertise to support local businesses and communities.Now that the Localism Act has been passed in the UK, we have implemented a number of measures around community consultation to further support our partners." [Although London Borough of Barnet doesn't do 'community'.]
"There continues to be strong demand from retailers for well located, high quality accommodation in the UK and France. Planning restrictions, together with the expertise and funding required to build and operate prime shopping centres of this type, constrain their supply but our pipeline provides some exciting retail development opportunities.
"Brent Cross/Cricklewood and The Goodsyard are two further significant, long-term urban regeneration projects with a retail focus which we will continue to progress." [Using a tax haven?]
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Link to Trip Advisor |
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Hotel web site |
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Link to Daily Telegraph |
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Link to Evening Standard |
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Link to Bloomberg |
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Link to The Guardian |
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Link to The Guardian |
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Link to shopping centre web site |
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Book tickets and submit questions at 'Living Streets' web site |
Link to Evening Standard |
“They have hit the nail on the head. They have given people exactly what they want - an enjoyable day out that extends into the evening with a restaurant meal, a visit to the cinema or a trip to the bowling alley.
“Stratford City has tapped into a huge well of undeserved shoppers who previously had to travel to Bluewater or Lakeside, which are both looking pretty tired now. People had been sceptical about the scale of the development, and it all goes to show that the demise of the British consumer had been overstated.”
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Link to Londonneur web site and video |
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Link to Daily Telegraph (picture is of Meadowhall, Sheffield OK. It's irrelevant.) |
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1945 plan - a lower, gentler, un-Hammersoned Brent Cross |
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As built |
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A day in the Seventies? |
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Modernisation |
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Link to Property Week (requires registration after first use) |
"David Atkins, Chief Executive Officer, sold 14,831 shares in the company on the 2nd March 2012 at a price of 403.80p. The Director now holds 172,731 shares."
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Link to web site |
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Link to Daily Telegraph |