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The Crown Estate Appointment
19/06/08
The Crown Estate has appointed Cooke & Arkwright to manage The Crown Estate’s Marine Estates interests in Wales for the next five years. This covers the foreshore area between mean high and low water, and estuaries and tidal rivers around a substantial part of the Welsh coastline in the former county estates of Monmouth, Glamorgan, Carmarthen, Pembroke, Cardigan, Merioneth, Caernarvon, Anglesey, Denbigh and Flint.
Light Aid
11/10/07
Trinity House, the General Lighthouse Authority (GLA) for England, Wales the Channel Islands and Gibraltar, has instructed Cooke & Arkwright as part of a UK wide exercise to undertake a planned maintenance & buildings survey and asset valuation of some of its south and west Wales’ lighthouses. These include lighthouses at well known landmarks such as Strumble Head near Fishguard, St Anne’s Head in Milford Haven, Caldey Island near Tenby, Mumbles in Gower and Nash Point in the Vale of Glamorgan.
First development in Wales for Charles Church
24/03/05
Prestigious housebuilder Charles Church has announced the acquisition of Jackson’s Quay at Waterfront Barry, in what will be its first development in Wales.
UWIC Fairwater Campus site sold for over £3.5 million
02/11/04
Acting on behalf of UWIC (University of Wales Institute, Cardiff) and the Reardon Smith Nautical School Trust (the Trust), joint agents Cooke & Arkwright and Burnett Davies have sold the three-acre former Fairwater Campus site to Persimmon Homes Wales for approximately £3.6 million.
New Hotel for Cardiff Airport
21/10/04
Alfred McAlpine Capital Projects has begun construction of a new £5.3 million Holiday Inn Express Hotel on land adjacent to Cardiff International Airport, acquired by Cooke & Arkwright.
Cardiff University in multi-million pound investment on Newport Road
02/07/03
Cardiff University has bought the former NPI headquarters comprising 80,000 square feet, at 30-36 Newport Road, Cardiff. The largest office transaction this year to-date (1st November) the purchase represents a multi-million pound investment on the part of the University, which will integrate its administration and free civic centre space for its world-ranked research.
Chartered Surveyor appointed High Sheriff
20/05/03
Historically the High Sheriff was responsible for law and order in the community in the days before the police service, however today the person holding the position is often a leader of the business community in the county. The newly appointed High Sheriff of Gwent, Selby Milner, of Llanddewi Skirrid near Abergavenny, considers the role a ‘great honour’.