West Midlands to showcase £20bn pipeline at UKREiiF

A 45,000 sq ft industrial and office unit at Apollo Way in Leamington Spa has been sold in an off-market deal.

The housing and property services specialist has begun work on a series of long-term contracts to upgrade hundreds of houses across the Midlands.

Councillors say a 100% premium, rubber stamped at a council meeting this week, will boost the local housing market and support services.

Plans to build a 330-acre industrial and logistics park near Birmingham will now be decided by government planning inspectors, after developers behind the scheme launched an appeal over planning delays.

Construction is expected to begin this summer on more than 60 homes near Coventry Airport, after Warwick District Council gave the thumbs up to proposals this month.

Place Midlands caught up with Shaun Fielding, regional managing director at Keepmoat’s West Midlands division, for the latest outlook for housing delivery, divisional growth, brownfield regeneration, and the importance of partnerships for the region.

As cranes rise over a £450m regeneration scheme, the poster city for post-war reinvention is betting that homes, green space and a renewed manufacturing ambition can restore confidence in its future. Can Britain’s most famous regeneration story reinvent itself one more time – and lead a green industrial revival in the process?

A series of murals in a West Midlands shopping centre have been listed by Historic England, making it only the second purpose-built shopping centre in the country to gain protected status.

A vacant former cement company headquarters in Rugby will make way for a retail superstore, despite calls from campaigners to preserve and retrofit the building for future use.