11 May 2012

Acting on behalf of Goodman, a substantial pre-let has been agreed with Element Six to build the world’s largest and most sophisticated synthetic diamond supermaterials research and development facility at Harwell Oxford. The new £20m 50,000 sq ft state of the art facility is due to open in spring 2013 creating a significant number of new highly skilled science and engineering jobs in the Science Vale Enterprise Zone.

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27 February 2012

Users of the conference and banqueting facilities at Sandford Springs Golf Club will soon be able to enjoy accommodation onsite, thanks to a successful planning application.

On behalf of Leaderboard Golf Ltd, Kemp & Kemp Property Consultants has recently obtained planning permission for a new 40-bedroom hotel at the golf club sited in Kingsclere.

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24 February 2012

It is estimated that around 70,000 disabled children and young people in the UK are waiting for a wheelchair that fits their young lives. The Whizz-Kidz charity provides disabled children with the essential wheelchairs and other mobility equipment they need to lead fun and active childhoods.

Kemp & Kemp Development Surveyor Alex Smithers is competing in the Virgin London Marathon and hopes to raise £2,000.00 towards much-needed funds for this worthwhile charity.

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23 February 2012

Do you work in property or construction, in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire or Berkshire? The Thames Valley Satellite branch of Women in Property invites all female property professionals to attend a Networking and New Members Drinks to be held at The Red Lion, Oxford on Thursday 8th March 5pm-7pm.

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23 February 2012

Kemp & Kemp’s Planning team have been successful on appeal at a former print works site in Oxford.

The City Council refused planning permission for a mixed residential development of 8 one, two and three bed units on a redundant, commercial site in Lamarsh Road. During the course of the planning application’s consideration, the Council sought an affordable housing provision from the proposed development, but on the recommendation of Kemp & Kemp’s Planning Partner Huw Mellor, who advised that no such provision was justified based on the prevailing planning policies, the site owners, a family enterprise, rejected the Council’s requirement and decided to go to appeal to contest it.

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