LONDON-Business Park developer Arlington Securities has agreed the final lettings at the Lansdowne Court office development at Gloucester Business Park and announced a new speculative phase at the park.

LONDON-In the first major letting at Canary Wharf in two years, BP is to relocate is oil trading division at the Docklands office complex. It is taking 128,000 sf in 20 Canada Square.

LONDON-The Midlands industrial market is continuing to outperform the rest of the UK according to the latest industrial rent survey from commercial property consultant Atis Real Weatheralls.

LONDON-Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has thrown out proposals by Land Securities for a 250,000-sf second phase at the Coppergate shopping centre in York. The developer has promised to go back to the drawing board in a bid to come up with an acceptable scheme.

LONDON-Famine relief charity Oxfam is to move its headquarters operation from nine separate buildings in Oxford into a single 85,000-sf building on Arlington Securities' Oxford Business Park.

LONDON-CLS has been granted planning permission by the London Borough of Lambeth for 80,000 sf of new development adjacent to its Spring Gardens site on the south bank of the Thames at Vauxhall.

LONDON-Marks & Spencer has submitted a planning application to Westminster City Council for the 750,000-sf redevelopment of its current headquarters at Michael House on Baker Street in London's West End .

LONDON-CGI has been confirmed as the funding partner at Chelsfield's White City retail development in West London. It will take a 50% stake in the million-sf scheme. And Marks & Spencer has been signed up as anchor tenant.