Monthly Archives: March 2015

Lotto windfall will fund final Roker Pier restoration

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LIGHT FANTASTIC: Jodi Larder, of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Coun Barry Curran and Coun Mel Speding at the top of the lighthouse. A CASH windfall has helped light the way in the final stretch of a pier revamp project. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded £545,000 to Sunderland City Council to help it return Roker Pier to its original glory. The lotto cash will join £136,000 of match funding from the authority, Read more [...]

Work begins on homes at site of former Isleworth convent

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Work has begun on building nearly 100 homes at the site of a former convent beside the river in Isleworth. The Isleworth House site, in Richmond Road, was home to religious order The Sisters of Nazareth for more than a century and was better known as Nazareth House. They sold it in 2013 to St James, which got planning permission last September to create 98 homes in a gated development on the 7.7-acre plot. The listed White House, chapels and stables will be converted to create 23 flats, and 39 new Read more [...]

Campaign to get former school building listed fails

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A CAMPAIGNER battling to save David Hockney's historic former school from demolition has vowed to carry on his fight despite failing in a bid to get the building listed. Andy Chilton submitted an application to English Heritage to have the former Hutton School in Eccleshill, Bradford, given protected status. That was rejected, but Mr Chilton is now awaiting the outcome of official complaints he has lodged with Bradford Council, heritage report authors Wardell Armstrong, and Read more [...]

Reading Prison: a new verse in the ballad of the gaol to protect its heritage

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A document to protect the heritage of the Grade Two listed building made famous by Oscar Wilde in his Ballad of Reading Gaol is set to be approved this week. And it comes with a criticism of the Ministry of Justice for failing to reveal what progress is being made on the sale of the historic Reading Prison site. The prison - a striking building in the heart of Reading’s Abbey Quarter - was shut down by the Government in December 2013. The Ministry of Justice intends to sell the site, but 16 months Read more [...]

US home sales rebound slightly in February

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A "For Sale" sign pokes out of about 4 feet of snow in the front yard of a home listed in Derry, N.H. U.S. home sales picked up slightly in February but remain sluggish due to tight inventories, affordability problems and nasty winter weather.(Photo: Charles Krupa / AP)Washington — U.S. home sales picked up slightly in February but remain sluggish due to tight inventories, affordability problems and nasty winter weather.Sales of existing homes rose 1.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted Read more [...]

Warsaw-listed GTC plans asset sale after impairments hit 2014

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WARSAW, March 23 (Reuters) - Warsaw-listed real estate developer GTC plans to sell 20-30 million euros ($22-33 million) of assets this year to cut debt and focus on capital cities, after a drop in the value of its portfolio drove it to a larger 2014 net loss. GTC said on Monday its rental and service revenue was steady at 110 million euros last year.But 193 million euros of impairments and a devaluation of assets in Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Hungary took its net loss to 207.4 million -- Read more [...]

Listed status proposed for Craigavon Bridge

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Blank Caption The Department of Environment is consulting Derry City Council on the listing of six more buildings and proposed delisting of three. Commenting on the latest proposals, Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said: ‘Listing these additional buildings in Derry will be a further boost for the city. The listing of the iconic Craigavon Bridge, so synonymous with our city, is, for example, a key symbol of both Read more [...]

The life and times of Sockburn Hall and its dragon

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TO the south of Darlington, the Tees flows a sinuous course. It snakes past Middlesbrough FC's Rockliffe in a broad loop, before doubling back on itself into Hurworth. Then it makes a curious kink at Newbus Grange, before slinking by Neasham in the shape of a nose. And then it heads south, taking Durham miles deep into Yorkshire. But it doesn't like what it sees, it abruptly changes its mind and flows directly north, towards Dinsdale and Middleton One Row. As it goes on its Read more [...]

30 minutes or penalty: Sebi warns listed companies on board decisions

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NEW DELHI: Listed firms must disclose their board decisions within 30 minutes, while all other 'material information' would need to be made public within 24 hours, Sebi said today as it tightened its corporate disclosure norms and warned of strong penal action for non-compliance. These disclosures would need to be made "as soon as reasonably practicable", but not later than the given time limit, Sebi said. The information, including about material events, would need to be mandatorily disclosed through Read more [...]