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Business rates experts at Alder King have expressed their strong concern about the Government’s proposed reform of the business rates appeals system in England, saying its proposed three-stage Check, Challenge and Appeal legislation will make the appeals process more complex, expensive and unfair.

Property consultancy Alder King has been instructed to market the landmark building Campus XXI at Delabole in Cornwall.

Alder King has announced two promotions from within its Bristol planning team. Karl Scholz and Nicola Sully are promoted to associate and principal planner respectively.

Property consultancy Alder King’s Gloucester office, which has been responsible for many of the major commercial property transactions in Gloucestershire in recent years, has been named as Gloucestershire’s Most Active Property Agent for the ninth year in succession by property publication Estates Gazette.

Acting on behalf of Keith Pople Ltd, property consultants Alder King have now let all three terraced industrial units at Oldmixon Crescent in Weston-super-Mare. The swift take-up of space confirms the healthy demand for industrial accommodation in this part of North Somerset.

Property consultants Alder King have welcomed the Government’s decision to approve the construction of Hinkley Point C, EDF Energy’s £250 million nuclear power station in North Somerset, saying it sends a strategic post-Brexit message that the UK, and the South West in particular, is open for business and new investment.

Acting on behalf of the Masters Golf Company, property consultants Alder King have let a second high specification distribution unit at Red Lodge Business Park in Weston-super-Mare to an expanding South Wales window manufacturer.

Alder King, acting on behalf of Grid Battery Storage Ltd, has secured its first planning consent for a battery storage scheme which will be used to support power generation in the UK. The planning consent, granted on the 1st September 2016, gives permission for a new facility housing 10MW of batteries on a 0.13 hectare site at Rownhams in Test Valley, Hampshire.

Demand for freehold industrial space in central Bristol has become so competitive that an increasing number of properties are being sold by best bids, say industrial experts at Alder King.

Property consultants Alder King and joint agents Ratcliffes have secured Swindon’s largest office letting of 2016, leasing over 17,000 sq ft at Isambard House to The Pets at Home Vet Group. The successful and growing group is relocating its central support office from Wantage and bringing some 200 colleagues to the town.

The Government’s Draft Rating List, which was released by the Valuation Office Agency on 30 September, has given businesses their first opportunity to see their new rateable values which will determine their business rates liability from 1April 2017.

Property development company Linkcity, formerly known as Bouygues Development, has secured outline planning consent for The Anvil, a new landmark office development in Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.

Focal Point, a five storey office building in Swindon town centre, has undergone a major refurbishment programme to create up to 35,000 sq ft of high quality accommodation which is now ready for occupation.

Revised plans for the redevelopment of Hatfield’s Comet Hotel have received planning consent following a meeting of Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council’s Development Management Committee.

Fusion Students has received a resolution to approve permission for its 25 storey student accommodation tower at Herbert Street in Cardiff’s Capital Quarter.

The four West of England authorities have produced a draft ‘Joint Spatial Plan’ that will be published for public consultation on 7 November until 19 December 2016. The Plan seeks to accommodate the housing and economic growth forecasts for the period 2016-2036.

Paloma Capital, on behalf of Paloma Real Estate Fund I, has acquired two industrial estates in Gloucester and Redditch for a combined £16m, reflecting an initial yield of 8%.

Gloucestershire County Council has instructed property consultants Alder King to market the freehold of a 4.67 acre residential conversion and development plot, just outside the village of Eastington near Stonehouse.

Our Building Consultancy team has successfully completed the interior refurbishment of Star House in Maidenhead, the 120,000 sq ft main office of mobile phone operator Three. The project was delivered within a challenging timescale of just six months.

The discount retail chain The Works has opened its second store in Gloucester, after agreeing terms on a prime retail unit on Westgate Street.

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