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Ealing Council’s cabinet has approved changes to the Green Man Lane development agreement, opening the way for Higgins Partnerships to take over the remaining phase of the West Ealing regeneration with A2Dominion and the council.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Westminster grants planning permission for Kajima Properties Europe’s retention-led refurbishment at 27 Soho Square; Starlight closes its second UK build-to-rent fund and ancillary vehicles with £680 million of capital commitments; True North sets out an Investec-financed £40 million GDV restoration at Holm Elephant and Castle; OCU Group revenue passes £1 billion; and Apiary Capital takes a majority stake in Orega through a completed management buyout.

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Lambeth councillors have approved the current Vauxhall Square redevelopment proposal, subject to planning obligations and further referral to the Mayor.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: City Hall approves St William’s first phase at Beckton Riverside, subject to completion of the section 106 agreement; MCR lodges its hotel-led BT Tower applications; the government sets the first rollout date for the Private Rented Sector Database; Marylebone Place returns to the market after its headquarters lease is restructured; and Clancy reports higher revenue and profit.

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Almost one hundred London High Court building-safety cases are active, with about £1.2 billion in dispute.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Vistry proposes a new shared-ownership model aimed mainly outside London; Scape lodges plans for an 851-bed student tower in Southwark; HUB joins Blue Coast Capital on two London co-living schemes; Cohort Capital completes an £18.4 million mezzanine refinancing of The Stafford London; and Fuller’s exchanges contracts to buy ten pubs for £35.25 million.

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London Square has been appointed residential development partner for Royal Street in Waterloo, where 133 homes are planned and half will be affordable.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: McLaughlin and Harvey secures the £70m main contract at Thavies Inn House; Grainger sets out its rental performance, development and capital plan; Building Safety Regulator approval performance improves as its live workload rises; Starboard and LaSalle acquire seven UK hotels including ibis London Barking; and GMS Estates markets a Covent Garden hotel development opportunity.

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Mace has completed GPE’s Thirty Duke Street in St James’s, with every office and retail unit pre-let before completion.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Harlequin Brickwork enters administration; Pladis expands its headquarters presence at Chiswick Park; Astra Asset Management reportedly lines up three prospective London office transactions; Pinnacle is appointed to operate 143 Queen’s Park rental homes; Cadogan signs a new group of Chelsea retail lettings; and Din Tai Fung commits to a fifth London restaurant at King’s Cross.

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Luton Rising has appointed Mace Consult, working with Arcadis, to manage the London Luton Airport growth programme, which allows capacity to rise to 32 million passengers a year.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Green Mountain secures a 14MW neocloud customer at its Romford data-centre campus; CField Construction returns to profit; Tower Hamlets approves Providence Row’s Dellow Centre retrofit; and the Government develops a Construction Jobs Plan.

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Lambeth planning officers have recommended approval for Vauxhall Square Limited’s mixed-use tower scheme beside Vauxhall interchange, including 1,097 conventional homes, 1,164 co-living units and 699 student rooms.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: City Plan 2040 hearings focus on heritage and tall buildings; Glenigan reports a stronger London office approvals pipeline; Levitt Bernstein submits plans for a replacement YMCA in Crouch End; Mace completes One Liverpool Street; and Urban Rest signs for its first UK hotel in Marylebone.

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Gilbert-Ash has signed a £40m contract to refurbish and restore RIBA’s Grade II* listed Portland Place headquarters in Westminster.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Hackney brings Wates into the recovery of the 371-home Britannia Phase 2B; Altius Real Estate and Make unveil a proposed 52-storey Shoreditch hotel; Dwelly acquires Paramount Properties in West Hampstead; Balfour Beatty appoints Emma Loxton as chief strategy officer; Centre for Cities calls for Network Rail land around stations to be transferred to mayoral regions; Croydon postpones its landlord-licensing schemes; and Savills highlights retailer demand in affluent heritage and tourism destinations.

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Mount Anvil has reported £10.4m of pre-tax profit, with its London pipeline rising to 4,505 homes and an estimated sales value of about £2.6bn.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Thames Water plans to retender the Teddington Direct River Abstraction work as one larger package, reported at about £500m; piling starts at Freshwater’s 45 Moorfields redevelopment; the Mortlake Brewery redevelopment is mothballed despite its planning consent; Criterion Capital appoints Vaqas Farooq and Steve Silvester; and Ballymore-commissioned research examines side income among prospective London buyers.

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Durkan is leaving contracting after more than 50 years and will continue through Durkan Homes and Durkan Regen.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Lovell pauses its Maryon Road housing scheme in Charlton while an independent structural engineer investigates the partial collapse of nearby homes; PPHE Hotel Group reports stronger first-half trading led by its London hotels; John Lewis opens its Platter hospitality concept at Oxford Street; Morgan Sindall Construction gives London separate regional leadership; and Allsop raises £40 million at its August residential auction.

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HB Reavis has put a revised, retrofit-led One Waterloo plan out to consultation, replacing the demolition-led route for Elizabeth House with a mixed-use proposal that retains and reworks the existing building.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Hackney works with Wates on a recovery plan for 371-home Britannia Phase 2B after Ardmore Construction Limited entered administration; Bridgemont submits its application to retrofit one Embankment Place; Sisk starts work at 171 Victoria Street; Hill is selected as Lewisham Council’s strategic development partner for ten years; and the Government asks councils to review land and capacity for council housebuilding.

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London is due to receive up to £11.7bn over the life of the Government’s Social and Affordable Homes Programme.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: KKCG completes its £291m purchase of 1 St James’s Square; the City of London moves a proposed £60m Barbican services package towards tender; Kier enters preconstruction on the £77m Stepney All Saints overhaul; British Land links 158,000 sq ft of AI-company leasing to Regent’s Place; and updates cover biodiversity net gain, Grosvenor’s heat-adaptation push, Scape’s £8bn framework, Thames Water and Vittoria Wharf.

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Landsec has secured approval for a revised O2 Centre masterplan at Finchley Road, giving the stalled regeneration a route forward with capacity for up to 1,800 homes.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Woolwich Exchange moves into the implementation phase of its compulsory purchase order; Westminster approves Foster and Partners' retrofit of the Ellison Institute of Technology’s St James's Square headquarters; De Pass Wharf in Barking is sold to a private investor; McLaren joins the Faryners House office project; Westminster prepares remedial works and potential legal action at Beachcroft House; and Andrew Davies joins the Mitie board.

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A refreshed Royal Docks and Beckton Riverside planning framework puts long-term housing, jobs and transport capacity back in focus, with roughly 36,000 to 39,000 homes and nearly 56,000 jobs dependent on connectivity improvements.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: GLi seeks an environmental-impact-assessment scoping opinion for the proposed 180MW Charlton Gateway data-centre campus; Ardmore Construction Group’s latest creditor report shows subcontractors owed £5.1 million; Real Estate:UK responds to the new National Planning Policy Framework; Southern Grove appoints Boom Construction for its Limehouse student-housing scheme; and Savills raises more than £30 million from its August auction.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers Deutsche Bank’s 15-year lease for around 150,000 sq ft at YY London in Canary Wharf, the latest Housing Delivery Test showing a sharp deterioration in delivery across London, and Lendlease and The Crown Estate’s plans for the next stage of Stratford Cross.

Also covered are continued congestion in London’s leasehold-flat market, Office Space in Town’s £129m refinancing and the NLA Awards shortlist spanning 80 entries across 26 London boroughs and the City.

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Macfarlanes commits to around 250,000 sq ft at One St Martin’s Le Grand in the City, giving Ho Bee Land a major occupier as it prepares a substantial redevelopment of the building.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Savills records a 43% fall in first-half London commercial-development transactions; DFI forward-funds an £80m co-living scheme beside Kingston station; United Trust Bank provides an £8.5m bridge for a consented West London care-home development; work starts on the second phase of Calverley Close in Bromley; Curlew Capital expands its living-sector team; and Arora Group brings six Heathrow outdoor-storage sites to market.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers SevenCapital restarting construction at the stalled West Cromwell Road development in west Kensington after Ardmore’s collapse, with SevenCapital Woodrow taking over completion of the 462-home scheme.

Also covered are Pell Frischmann’s announcement of the death of former chairman Dr Wilem Frischmann CBE; The Housing Finance Corporation’s £250m facility for Notting Hill Genesis; Barbour ABI’s warning on office supply; and McGee’s £2.8m pre-tax loss after a client insolvency.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers the government’s new National Planning Policy Framework and its default yes for housing around well-connected train, tram and Underground stations, alongside Oval Real Estate and Strategic Value Partners’ £90.75m acquisition of 10 Stratton Street in Mayfair.

Also covered are Costain’s approximately £150m Thames Water wastewater programme, Central London office space under offer reaching its highest level since 2007, the latest London residential asking-price data, and Roger Forsdyke’s appointment as UK Operations Director at Wates Construction.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief leads with Canary Wharf Group’s £625m sale of 1-5 Bank Street to its Brookfield and Qatar Investment Authority co-investors.

Also covered are National Grid’s North West London Upgrade appointments for Laing O’Rourke and the Hochtief-Murphy joint venture; Bouygues UK’s £76.1m pre-tax loss; Tritax Big Box Developments’ planning and development appointments; Poplar HARCA’s claim against Rydon Construction; construction fatality data; Avant Homes’ building-safety remediation agreement; and the construction sector’s exposure to extreme heat.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers the major retrofit planned for HSBC’s 8 Canada Square tower in Canary Wharf, Kennedy Wilson’s consent for a 540,000 sq ft west London data centre, and Travelodge’s new 132-room Abbey Wood hotel.

Also covered are CLS Holdings’ first-half results, Frasers Group’s acquisition of Harvey Nichols, Vinci Construction’s UK performance, weaker residential and retail construction starts, construction insurance risk, cladding claims, property law and workforce issues.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers Lazari’s appointment of Vert for the next phase of the Greater London House upgrade in Camden, and Kier securing a £99 million Derwent London office scheme on Oxford Street.

Also covered are three occupier signings at Quadrant and Union Investment’s One Coleman Street, Structure Tone’s record £449 million revenue and £1.3 billion London fit-out order book, stronger science and innovation activity across the Golden Triangle, the emerging greybelt planning framework, Balfour Beatty’s first-half performance, Ardmore’s proposed CVA, Hill’s appointment of John Fitzgerald and the liquidation of Breyer’s parent company.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers Multiplex winning JPMorgan’s One Spitalfields office contract, Bellway beating its housebuilding target despite weaker private buyer demand, Cohort Capital’s £20m refinancing of a Soho serviced-apartment block and IWG reporting record revenue as demand linked to artificial intelligence supports flexible-workspace growth.

Also covered is Multiplex’s appointment by Endurance Land at 99 City Road, the 36-storey office tower planned at Old Street.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers Derwent London’s first-half loss and upgraded earnings guidance, Multiplex’s upcoming construction start on a 36-storey City Road tower, and Higgins Partnerships’ 182-home council estate regeneration in Brentford.

Also covered are Hyde and London Square’s £100m Woolwich deal, Arada’s Peckham student housing plans, British Land’s Euston Tower partner search, London office and investment activity, construction market conditions, housing delivery, retail property and supply-chain risk.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers Farrans’ appointment for new skylink walkways at London Stansted Airport, Bridgemont’s plans for a major retrofit of One Embankment Place above Charing Cross station, and Clarion Housing Group’s approval for 249 social homes in South London.

Also covered are Westminster City Council’s draft licensing proposals for Soho and the West End, Allsop’s £8.99m sale of five Travelodge assets, the Competition and Markets Authority’s provisional ruling involving Aldi and Lidl, modern-slavery and work-at-height risks in construction, HG’s three Gateway 2 approvals and Zentia’s insolvency.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers the sale of a 140,000 sq ft mixed-use commercial estate in Victoria, Latham & Watkins’ relocation to 300,000 sq ft at One Leadenhall, and Allsop’s £50m July residential auction result.

Also covered are the High Court’s dismissal of legal challenges to Gatwick’s Northern Runway project and the 72 projects shortlisted for the RIBA London Awards 2026.

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Prologis and SEGRO agree final terms for a proposed £14.3bn combination, with the deadline for a firm offer extended to 12 August.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Taylor Wimpey publishes its 2026 half-year results; Constructionline prepares a London supply-chain event at StoneX Stadium; more than 600 applications are received for 60 intermediate-rent homes at Camden Goods Yard; Grosvenor reports 58 leasing deals across Mayfair and Belgravia; and updates cover Wembley Park lettings and the retail-investment market.

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The High Court dismisses a residents’ challenge to the government decision permitting China’s proposed embassy at Royal Mint Court in Tower Hamlets.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Re:shape submits plans for 532 shared-living studios and 36 social-rented homes opposite Wimbledon station; public-sector partners formalise a 20-year regeneration partnership for Charlton Riverside; and the City of London seeks a contractor for £42.1m of major works at Crescent House on the Golden Lane Estate.

Stories also cover affordable housing beside North Middlesex University Hospital, the redevelopment of Chiswick police station, leadership changes at BW, London’s contracting build-to-rent pipeline, Dream’s Chancerygate deal and Blue Spa’s proposed London debut.

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Long Harbour secures a £160m NatWest loan against two East London build-to-rent assets, The Eades in Walthamstow and Riverstone Heights in Bromley-by-Bow.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: the High Court rejects a challenge to the planned Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court; industrial and logistics take-up rises as occupiers target grade-A space; Deepki acquires agentic AI specialist Camion; HS2 renegotiates civils contract arrangements; BAM UK reports stronger first-half performance; and a brief planning update covers the rejection of the Ebbsfleet stadium and housing scheme over lead-contamination concerns.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers the Truman Brewery approval, British Land’s Euston Tower partner search, Persimmon’s reported Hainault site buy, and CBRE’s evidence that bulk buyers are taking a larger role in London’s new-home market.

Stories also include the New Hospital Programme delivery agreements, Airbnb and Oneder’s London workspace partnership, MAPP’s central London surveying appointment, and brief updates on Avove and British Steel leadership.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers Torsion Construction entering administration, data-centre work lifting Severfield’s order book, Colas Rail’s stronger trading update, and Ofgem’s proposed fees for data-centre connections. It also covers Workspace’s sustainability appointments, a Mayfair property sale, a former west London bank coming to market, and senior construction-sector appointments.

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Today's London Property Daily Brief covers Derwent London's Baker Street main works appointment, the latest London housebuilding registration picture, the Mayor's construction-skills funding, Equans Regeneration's return to profit, and current housing, infrastructure, materials and leadership news. Stories include 50 Baker Street, NHBC registrations, London's £88.6m construction training package, Equans, BNP Paribas Real Estate UK, CBRE Investment Management and Moda, National Highways, Forterra, and Environment Agency enforcement activity. This is an AI-assisted editorial briefing using an AI-generated voice. Stories are summarised from attributed industry sources and official or reputable reporting. No article text is reproduced.

Today's London Property Daily Brief covers Tritax Big Box's Manor Farm data-centre consent, Avison Young's London capital-markets hires, Basildon's local-plan intervention, Pagabo's medium-works framework and a fresh industrial-assets figure from Savills.

It also covers construction and housing leadership changes, including the new construction minister, Stonewater's CFO appointment and the Mineral Products Association's new chief executive.

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Today’s London Property Daily Brief covers the Government Commercial Agency’s new three point five billion pound Construction Professional Services framework, WSP’s revised approach for Arcadis, and Bromley’s approval for Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.Stories include Arada and Clarion’s Camden affordable-homes deal, Berkeley’s reported Royal Arsenal Riverside acquisition, the government’s housing target, Tideway’s Thames Path delay, The Crown Estate’s Cambridge Business Park plans, Prosper’s building-safety framework and the extension of right-to-work checks.This is an AI-assisted editorial briefing using an AI-generated voice. Stories are summarised from attributed industry sources and official or reputable reporting. No article text is reproduced.

The Crown Estate appoints Kier and BAM to two West End schemes; Tower Hamlets approves £143m for the first ten sites in its accelerated housing programme; and Areli secures approval for an 820-home Isle of Dogs tower.

Also in today’s London Property Daily Brief: Grosvenor finances One Chester Street; The Arch Company acquires further London railway property; the Building Safety Regulator sets out its assessment reset; Sisk wins the London Irish Centre rebuild; Morgan Sindall reports record results; Wates appoints Kevin Grace; Aitch targets £80m turnover; Galliford Try wins a Thames Water job; The Crown Estate submits its Cambridge Business Park plan; and Alison Hogg is named the next chair of the UK Innovation Corridor.

Today's London Property Daily Brief covers the latest possible SEGRO and Prologis combination, two West End developments from The Crown Estate, and the low-carbon retrofit of 60 Queen Victoria Street.

Also covered are Tilbury Douglas's growing order book, twelve offsite affordable homes delivered in Epsom, and the Building Safety Regulator's warning on subcontractor quality.

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Today's London Property Daily Brief covers the first-stage team for Thameside West, a major Holborn headquarters letting and the recommended OCS acquisition of Mitie.

Also covered are the Park Royal Asda and Barratt London application, the Prologis approach to SEGRO, Big Yellow's London development pipeline and Kier's latest order-book update.

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Today's London Property Daily Brief covers fresh London development, housing, office, public-sector construction and construction-cost news. Stories include the Holborn Circus office redevelopment, Tower Hamlets' Albert Jacob House tender, Railpen's Smithfield retrofit, Kier's HMP Wandsworth fire-safety programme and Mace's warning on structural steel prices. This is an AI-assisted editorial briefing using an AI-generated voice.

Today's London Property Daily Brief covers Hackney and Poplar housing progress, a major City occupier move, Bermondsey industrial investment, fresh planning reform signals and the latest tender inflation outlook.

Stories include Hill's New Era Estate rebuild in Hackney, Clarion and Taylor Wimpey's East Riverside milestone in Poplar, Morningstar's move to One Millennium Bridge, Oryx's Bermondsey industrial acquisition, Helical's latest letting at The Bower, judicial review reform proposals, planning fee changes and AtkinsRealis' new tender inflation forecast.

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Today's London Property Daily Brief covers the draft London Plan, Hallmark's Stratford Junction proposals, JD.com's west London headquarters acquisition, data-centre grid delays, British Steel, Laing O'Rourke manufacturing, construction output and UK living-sector investment.Stories include City Hall's five hundred and fifty eight thousand home draft London Plan target, Hallmark's proposed three-tower Stratford Junction scheme, JD.com's Brook Green headquarters acquisition, Nscale's Essex data-centre grid delay, British Steel's move into public ownership, Laing O'Rourke's manufacturing expansion, Helical's shareholder return update, CBRE's living-sector investment data and a Belgravia residential finance transaction.This is an AI-assisted editorial briefing using an AI-generated voice. Stories are summarised from attributed industry sources and official or reputable reporting. No article text is reproduced.