HARRIS LAMB WINS APPEAL FOR LICHFIELD RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
Harris Lamb’s planning consultancy team has successfully secured planning permission for a 77-property development in Lichfield following an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. The team submitted plans for 77 homes on land off Eastern Avenue last Autumn on behalf of its client, only to have them unanimously rejected by… Read More
HARRIS LAMB OVERSEES PURCHASE AND REFIT OF 30,000SQ FT PRIME OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM
Harris Lamb has overseen the purchase of a 30,000sq ft high-spec office building in Birmingham in readiness for increasing demand within the sector. The consultancy purchased Aqueous3 at Aston Cross on behalf of a private family client on the back of a significant increase in market confidence. For 18 months,… Read More
99p Store
Harris Lamb are retained by 99p Stores Ltd to identify and acquire stores as part of their ambitious expansion program. 99p Stores are seeking 150 new stores by 2017. Harris Lamb cover the Midlands and north of England, contact details and area of search is shown on the flyer below:… Read More
HARRIS LAMB COMPLETES £10m EUROPEAN HQ FOR THE FREEMAN GROUP
Harris Lamb has successfully completed work on a 175,000 sq ft project to establish the European headquarters of the Freeman Group in Ryton, Coventry. Freeman are the market leader in the design and manufacture of exhibition stands together with the facilitation of exhibition space. Andrew Lamb, director, said: “Freeman needed… Read More
A Great Challenge for a Great cause…
Harris Lamb’s Lance Turner is limbering up for the final part of Worcester’s Tuxedo Challenge. Lance and nine other prominent Worcester business figures joined forces earlier this year to raise money for good causes, kicking off with a successful pantomime horse race at Worcester racecourse in June. That… Read More
DAVID WALTON APPOINTED AS HEAD OF RETAIL AT HARRIS LAMB
Harris Lamb has appointed David Walton as Head of Retail, charged with overseeing and managing the business’ retail offering. The business, which has offices across the Midlands and in London, has appointed David to lead its retail division, sharing insight with clients to secure an optimum presence… Read More
HARRIS LAMB OVERSEES £3.75m EXTENSION AT SALFORD PRIORS FOR ALAMO MANUFACTURING SERVICES (AMS), A MEMBER COMPANY OF ALAMO GROUP EUROPE LTD
Harris Lamb’s building team has overseen the £3.75m, 4,800 sqm. extension for Alamo Manufacturing Services (AMS) in Salford Priors, a member company of Alamo Group Europe Ltd, whilst minimising the impact on surrounding areas and the environment. Alamo Group Europe Ltd are world leaders in the design, manufacture, distribution and… Read More
Is Longbridge about to become the new Solihull?
News last week that Marks & Spencer have been granted planning permission for a new 150,000 sq. ft. store on the former MG Rover site in Longbridge may have raised a few eyebrows for people. Development at “Longbridge Town Centre”, or rather the newly created town centre, is… Read More
Where are all the UK Dark Stores ?
For those unaware of the term ‘Dark Store’ then its best described as a food store variant on the Amazon Warehouse concept. It is a warehouse which processes the online orders for groceries and services areas where supermarkets have no ‘retail’ presence in the sense of a… Read More
STOKE SURVEYOR IS AWARDED AssocRICS QUALIFICATION
A surveyor at Harris Lamb is celebrating after being awarded her AssocRICS qualification after four years of study. Becky Colclough, who is based at Harris Lamb’s Stoke office, now plans to complete her studies to become a Chartered Surveyor. Becky joined Harris Lamb in 2008 as an office trainee, and… Read More
HARRIS LAMB ANTICIPATES HIGH DEMAND FOR THE LAST KING
Harris Lamb has been appointed as the sole agent for the last available high quality office space in excess of 20,000 sq ft within Worcester and between junctions 1-9 of the M5 Corridor. At more than 31,000 sq ft, 3 Kings Court has become available following Shop… Read More
HARRIS LAMB OVERSEES NEW VAX BUILDING IN DROITWICH
Harris Lamb is playing a key part in the development of a design and build premises of 231,000 square feet in Droitwich on behalf of Vax. The purpose built premises at Stonebridge Cross will centralise Vax’s warehousing operation, safeguarding jobs and allowing for further job creation. Vax employs 200 staff,… Read More
HARRIS LAMB SUPPORTS VAX EXPANSION AT COLMORE SQUARE
Harris Lamb has worked with floor cleaning specialists Vax to take over a further 20,000 sq ft at its Birmingham head office. Vax, which already occupies 25,000 sq ft at the fifth floor of 2 Colmore Square, has expanded within the building, taking on in addition the fourth floor of… Read More
The Challenges of acting as an LPA advisor
From a commercial property viewpoint an easing of credit and availability of finance for property lending will provide some real impetus to growth. My colleague Neil Slade talked about a shortage of new development where demand exists but credit is difficult and I thought it was worth supporting Neil’s piece… Read More
Have you visited a Dark Store?
Listening to the radio the other morning I heard a story about the origins of text messaging 20 years ago and how it was first used by Vodafone and intended to be for internal messaging use only – to tell Directors where they were supposed to be when out… Read More