Building Briefs: Eddisons, CBRE sale, Leeds College of Building
EDDISONS generated proceeds of more than £7.8m at its first property auction of the year.
The firm reported that 97 (79%) of the 123 lots offered at the two day sale in Leeds and Manchester were sold.
The best performing lot was a residential development site in Bingley, near Bradford. The 1.58 acre plot opposite the Yorkshire Clinic, which was offered with planning permission for five town houses, with potential for a further six detached properties, sold for £448,000. The guide price was £350,000 plus.
Elsewhere, a former Council office on North Lane in the centre of Headingley, Leeds, sold for £302,000. The guide price was £120,000 plus.
In Bradford, a former pub on Allerton Road which has planning permission for change of use to a single residential property achieved £175,000, more than four times the advertised guide of £40,000 plus.
A more modest bid of £550 was enough to secure a parcel of woodland, incorporating a public footpath, in Gildersome, near Morley.
Tony Webber of Eddisons said: “This was an excellent performance to start our auction year and continued the positive trend we saw at the end of 2012.”
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A PUBLIC house is set to be converted into a residential property after being sold.
The Hare and Hounds is in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
CBRE’s pubs and leisure team, acting on behalf of Enterprise Inns, offloaded the property to a private individual for £200,000.
It is understood that the purchaser intends to convert the former pub into a single large residential property.
Director at CBRE’s Leeds office, Sam Frankland, said: “There was strong interest for this property from a number of parties who were registered looking for property in this area. We received five offers for the property and ultimately the price was right, a key factor in this market.”
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GROWING numbers of employers are taking advantage of a new civil engineering course that became the first of its kind outside London when it launched 18 months ago at Leeds College of Building.
The Civil Engineering Advanced Technician Apprenticeship Employer Consortium started in 2011 as an employer-led group of like-minded engineering companies supported by The Institution of Civil Engineering (ICE), The National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) and the College.
The course spans a variety of engineering disciplines and offers apprentices a wide range of employment options.
A total of 15 apprentices signed up to the first course with former Batley Girls High School pupil Bethany Wilson and Scunthorpe man Russell Jaques both completing the framework at the same time to become the first students in the UK to complete the programme.
In recognition of their achievements the apprentices were presented with awards by ICE at the consortium meeting that was attended by a wide range of engineering firms that either have apprentices already on the programme or are now looking to recruit apprentices on the course.
Leeds College of Building’s higher education faculty director, Brian Duffy, said: “This framework has become a huge success and is helping to encourage growing numbers of engineering firms to recruit apprentices who are then becoming valuable assets to the company.”
