Planning News
Rugely The Birmingham office of King Sturge has landed one of its most valuable deals to date. The circa £5.5m project to relocate Staffordshire based Ultra Electronics PMES (PMES) to a new site in Rugeley has been two years in the planning and involved a coordinated approach of six King Sturge departments to bring the project to fruition. Led by Peter Leaver from Planning and Simon Lea from the Building Consultancy Team, King Sturge clinched the deal after obtaining outline planning permission for PMES’s main 7.5 acre site for housing and the subsequent sale of the land to McInerney Homes for £9.4m on an unconditional basis. Work starts on site this month with a local contractor, TS Contracts, and King Sturge’s Building Consultancy expect to have the project complete by the first quarter of 2009.		Nottingham Wilson Bowden Developments have submitted a planning application for a new landmark 100,000 sq ft office development in Nottingham. The property developer has contracted to acquire the former Boots 32,490 sq ft product testing facility on Wilford Road following negotiation with Nottingham agents Lambert Smith Hampton and Fisher Hargreaves Proctor. The scheme, subject to receiving planning consent, will transform the site into a £30m (GDV development. Wilson Bowen are hoping to receive planning consent over the next months which will enable them to start on site in June 2008. This will enable the development to be completed for the beginning of 2010.