All Property and Planning articles
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NewsBRC and UKHospitality demand Reeves go further with rates reform
The Chancellor today granted pubs and music venues 15% business rates relief for 2026/27
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NewsChancellor expected to announce business rates support for pubs
Rachel Reeves’ announcement will follow a warning from UKHospitality that the average pub faces paying £7,000 extra in business rates by 2029
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NewsScottish budget leaves shops ‘worse off than those in England’
The Scottish Retail Consortium says shops have been short-changed on business rates compared with their English counterparts
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NewsLidl opening 19 stores in eight weeks
Lidl is also investing £43m in refurbushing 70 existing stores
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NewsGovernment poised to backtrack on business rates hikes for pubs
Rachel Reeves is poised to offer relief to pubs facing the sharpest increases, according to a number of reports
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NewsPlanning policy framework promises to remove red tape for farmers
The government’s draft National Planning Policy Framework, published this week, has been welcomed by the NFU and others as an opportunity to support investment and speed up planning applications
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NewsAnalysis reveals ‘retail’s biggest winners and losers’ in business rates shake-up
A Waitrose at Canary Wharf is among the biggest losers, while Harrods is among the big winners, according to the analysis
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NewsAldi opening five new stores in 24 hours
Aldi started 2025 with about 1,040 UK stores and expects to end it with 1,081
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News‘Perverse’ to raise rates for small shops and not others, says the Fed
The Federation of Independent Retailers national president Hetal Patel hit out at forecasts that small shops would face higher business rates following last week’s budget
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NewsSupermarkets facing business rates hike after Treasury u-turn
Supermarket chiefs had previously expressed confidence Rachel Reeves had ‘listened’ to their demands
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NewsM&S reveals list of 500 ‘target locations’ for Food stores
The 500 ‘potential locations’ for new and renewed Food stores include areas where there is not yet an M&S
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NewsLidl set to open 1,000th UK store next week
Lidl is marking the occasion by giving away 1,000 ‘gingerbread store kits’ online
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NewsAsda offloads 24 stores and Lutterworth depot for £568m
Asda will reportedly use the proceeds to repay a debt to Walmart
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NewsWhole Foods Market to open new store in Westminster
It comes eight months after the Amazon-owned premium organic supermarket opened its first UK store in over a decade
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NewsSupermarket Income REIT makes first convenience store acquisitions
The investment fund said it increasingly saw opportunity in convenience
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NewsRetail footfall down for sixth consecutive month
The BRC said it showed the need for the Chancellor to support shops in the budget on 26 November
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NewsSupermarket chiefs in new inflation warning to Rachel Reeves
Reeves has been warned yet again by supermarket chiefs of the danger of driving up food prices if she heaps more tax on large shops
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NewsM&S chief Stuart Machin sets out budget demands for Rachel Reeves
‘Over the last year, retail has been hit by an alphabet soup of taxes and regulations,’ said Machin
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NewsAsda targets London for new Express store expansion
The new stores are the latest in a wave of 20 new Express stores Asda planned to open throughout October