First City has been appointed as the sole agent for the 10,000 square feet former police station in Birmingham Road Wolverhampton. Prominently positioned on the A4123 Birmingham New Road and understood to have been constructed in the 1960s, the building has an imposing frontage on the busy commuter route between Wolverhampton and Birmingham. This along …
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First City congratulates Chontell Buchanan on achieving her Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI) this summer. Since joining the company as a graduate in February 2010 Chontell has spent more than two years gaining valuable work experience. Constant reviews, log book diaries and close monitoring means that she has been successful in demonstrating …
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We are pleased to welcome Thomas Lea on to the First City team as a Management Surveyor. Tom graduated from Birmingham City University this year with an honours degree in Real Estate and is now working towards Chartered Membership of the RICS. Currently working within the Management Department, Tom says, “I will be spending the …
First City have been actively promoting a significant mixed use urban extension to the South of Shrewsbury Town Centre. The site was allocated as Shrewsbury South Sustainable Urban Extensions (SUE), one of the two areas of the town identified to meet the town’s future housing and employment needs within the Shropshire Core Strategy that was …
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On 22nd December 2011, the Government launched its “Get Britain Building” bidding programme which offers developers a total pot of £420m to enable work to start on stalled sites with planning permission. The intention of the programme is to address the well-known problems faced by developers in obtaining development finance. It will operate by making …
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Just under 100 years ago, in 1914, the proportion of owner-occupiers in the UK compared to other forms of tenure was just 10%. Today, it is 70%, the balance being made up by private rented (10%) and council / housing association (20%) property. The mortgage market, which accounts for 39% of ALL properties, is therefore …
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The Village of Essington could benefit from a range of new community facilities as part of a development scheme being proposed by local businessman Jack Moody. Mr Moody founder of Jack Moody PLC has commissioned Planning Consultants First City Limited to lead a public consultation event for the development proposals on land situated off Hobnock …
After two years of sustained effort planning permission has been granted by Stafford Borough Council for the final phase of the County town’s flagship employment site and was immediately hailed as ‘the best news this year’ by Inglewood Investments Commercial Director Gil Paris. Wolverhampton based Property Consultancy First City Limited provided planning and technical advice …
Planning Consultancy First City Limited has called for further flexibility in housing distribution within the Districts adjoining the Black Country. This is supported by Graham Fergus who leads the company’s planning team who says- ‘evidence in the emerging updates to the Strategic Housing Land Availability studies identifies numerous settlements in the villages and small towns …
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First City reports that there is currently a two-tier residential development land market with larger sites in better quality locations attracting a disproportionate amount of interest compared to small sites in poor locations. Before the recession, it was accurate to say that almost every site was saleable, generally at a level in excess of alternative …
