Bridget OConnell

Developer pledges 3,000 homes as part of new urban centre in south-east London.

Number of store disposals will depend on stance taken by competition watchdog.

A government-appointed panel is understood to have found that the construction of homes is being slowed down as a result of a high proportion of planning permissions being granted for large sites…

The Raynsford Review of Planning, to be published this week, concludes the system is no longer working in the long-term public interest of communities or the country.

TPG bought Poundworld for a reported £150m from its founder and his family in 2015, amid a wave of investor interest in cut-price retailers.

B52, which was marketed as a feeder fund for the pop-up hotel operator Snoozebox, was run by Paul Sutton.

The number of customer visits to shops has fallen by the greatest amount on record for March and April.

Claims come after Bovis chief Greg Fitzgerald promised that the house builder was no longer “handing over crap or incomplete houses to customers”.

The company is understood to have drafted in accountancy giant KPMG to help it assess the future of the 22-site chain, which could include a company voluntary agreement (CVA).

BT is moving out of its central London headquarters in St Paul’s, where it has been headquartered since 1874 when the group was known as the General Post Office.