LONDON-Developer JG Bristol has been granted detailed planning permission for a 750,000-sf mixed-use redevelopment of the former Courage brewery site in the centre of Bristol.

LONDON-Investors are showing increasing concern at the poor performance of the office sector, according to a new report from CB Hillier Parker, which means that yields have stabilised after a long bull run. And the firm does not expect the occupational market to improve next year.

LONDON-US Freight business Expeditors has secured a key site at London Heathrow airport, even though it will not become available for development until 2007 on completion of Heathrow Terminal Five.

LONDON-Scottish Widows Investment Partnership is to forward-fund Quadrant Estates' pounds 10 million ($15.5 million) Hedge End Trade Park development in Southampton.

LONDON-Chesterbridge Developments have drawn up plans for a mixed-use regeneration scheme in the heart of Kilkenny in Ireland. The Broadway Malyan-designed scheme will transform the area around the city's railway station.

LONDON-Investment in the European hotels sector has held up surprisingly well during 2002, with euro 3 billion ($3 billion) of properties likely to have changed hands by the year end, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.

LONDON-Terrace Hill Group has unveiled plans for a pounds 18 million ($28 million) mixed use development on the former Queen Elizabeth Barracks site in Guildford, Surrey.

LONDON-The Netherlands-based Ibus Company has paid Scottish Widows Investment Partnership pounds 23 million ($36 million) for a portfolio of 17 high street retail investments, spread throughout the UK.