Discovery Park CEO comments on today’s spending review announcement
Mayer Schreiber, CEO of Discovery Park in Kent, one of the UK’s fastest-growing communities of life science business, including Pfizer, Viatris and Concept Life Sciences. He said: “I am delighted by the Chancellor’s announcement of £1.4Billion of funding into the new...
How the 2021 Spending Review can make the UK a ‘science superpower’
Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) Assistant Director Daniel Rathbone sets out the key asks from the 2021 Spending Review and the rationale behind them. We now know that the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) we have all been waiting for will conclude...
How we turned the STC from a hunch into a reality – Roz Bird, Chair, Silverstone Technology Cluster
It’s five years since the independent research house, SQW, published the report that revealed the Silverstone Technology Cluster (STC). The report confirmed the earlier suspicions of MEPC and Barclays who then became the prime movers behind the STC organisation that...
Taking a lease on a science park? How to overcome financial pitfalls. The last in the series of blogs from Giorgia Clements, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
In our third blog addressing potential financial pitfalls in leases, we addressed the dangers of exercising your break right incorrectly or changing your mind after exercising it. To culminate our series of blogs, here we will consider business rates and the dangers...
Taking a lease on a science park? How to overcome financial pitfalls. The third blog in the series from Giorgia Clements, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
In our previous blogs looking at financial pitfalls in leases we explored financial traps for tenants resulting from the rent review process, service charge liability, and dilapidations claims. In this third blog, we explore the lesser considered financial liability...
