LXB seals Isle of Sheppey retail deal

Real estate investment company LXB Retail Properties has exchanged contracts with The Crown Estate to acquire 20 acres of the Neats Court development site on the Isle of Sheppey for £4.1m.

Space: The final frontier

It’s space, but not as we know it: the UK’s International Space Innovation Centre is the central core of a billion-pound growth industry. Lucy Barnard reports

Gateway to nowhere

What does the future hold for the Thames Gateway project? Will it ever deliver on a promised 160,000 homes? Graham Norwood looks at how Labour’s bold plans for the area’s regeneration have suffered in a changing political and economic climate