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Industry events to book for 2024

Next week Place North launches its 2025 events calendar, but there’s still time to sponsor and purchase tickets for our summer, autumn, and winter events this year.

Maiden This City scheme clears ‘hump’, nears completion

No1 Ancoats Green is the first project being delivered through Manchester City Council’s development company and will provide 129 apartments and townhouses.

Ground breaks on £14m Lancaster manufacturing facility

GVS Filter Technology UK is moving to a 21,500 sq ft vacant riverside site off Caton Road, Quernmore, with completion expected in spring 2025.

Trafford targeting summer start for £18m Partington Sports Village

Kier Construction will head to site in late July as long as plans for the project are approved in the meantime.

Monday, Jun 3

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Design and build contracts awarded for Penrith school expansion

Top Notch Contractors and Architects Plus are to begin a feasibility study for the scheme to expand Beaconside Church of England School, off Hutton Hill.

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Elmsfield Park on the market for £12.8m

CBRE is handling the sale of the multi-let industrial estate in Carnforth, Lancashire, close to the M6.

LCR to invest £19m in station accessibility upgrades

Liverpool City Region said it is on track to have “the most accessible train network in the country”.

Approval set for £160m Liverpool investment zone projects

A Sci-Tech Daresbury expansion and a new robotics-focussed lab at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine make up part of the first wave of life science programmes seeking funding.

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Bootle Girobank campus redevelopment resurfaces

Total Developments is planning to build around 390,000 sq ft of industrial units on the 22-acre Bridle Road site, which was most recently occupied by Santander.

Miller Homes recruits production director

Andy Heaton has taken on the senior role, joining the housebuilder from Redrow.

Sovini loses appeal over resi near Pilkington HQ

Proximity to the grade two-listed glass manufacturer’s former head office proved to be the project's downfall, with the Planning Inspectorate siding with St Helens Council over its refusal of 64 affordable homes.

Contractors sought for £8m King George’s Hall refurb

Blackburn with Darwen Council has tendered for work, which the authority hopes will start this summer with a tight turnaround expected once appointments are made.

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Manchester to ink land deal for LGBTQ+ homes

The city council’s executive will meet this week to dispose of land off Russell Road in Whalley Range to Great Places Housing Group on a 999-year lease.

Sunday, Jun 2

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BOOK NOW | Education Property and PBSA

Network with senior sector specialists and get the inside track and the latest insights on the region's education real estate and student housing sector amid a challenging economic environment.

Friday, May 31

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Altered Space brings 300-home Warrington opportunity to market

Developers have been put on alert for the chance to acquire land forming the first phase of a wider 900-home redevelopment of Cockhedge Shopping Centre.

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CERT proposes £28m New Cross resi

A site off Cross Keys Street would be redeveloped into 99 homes under the developer’s plans for its second residential scheme within the Manchester neighbourhood.

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THING OF THE WEEK

GOING PLACES… We get a special little thrill when we see our Place North West caps in the wild. Kudos to Caroline Baker of Cushman & Wakefield and George MacMillan of Kuits for sporting this season’s hottest accessory during the AJ Bell…

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Blackpool to progress long-awaited Winter Gardens hotel

Plans put forward by C1 Capital and Mottram Estates could be approved next week, paving the way for the construction of a 226-bedroom aparthotel.

Miller gears up for start on 300-home St Helens scheme

Having secured planning consent for the 32-acre Dial House Place last year, the housebuilder has formalised the land acquisition and aims to break ground in June.

Feedback wanted on 250 homes in Wigan

Richard Estates has launched a public consultation on £44.5m plans for a housing estate on 29 acres of farmland south of Landgate Lane in Ashton-in-Makerfield.

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Manchester’s Hotel Gotham changes hands

Leonardo Hotels UK and Ireland has added the 60-bedroom property to its growing portfolio of city centre assets.

Knowsley gives all-clear for 120 Vistry homes

Halsnead Garden Village’s housing delivery hits its next milestone, with the developer securing planning permission to construct a neighbourhood on eight acres north of the M62.

Thursday, May 30

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RIBA North West Awards winners announced

Shakespeare North was named the region’s Building of the Year, with its architect Nicholas Helm also claiming the Project Architect of the Year prize during the Royal Institute of British Architects ceremony on Thursday.

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Muse moves ahead with second Blackpool civil service hub

A 53,000 sq ft office to be occupied by public sector staff forms the next phase of the Talbot Gateway masterplan.

Manchester gives consent for 700 student beds

Manner’s 37-storey redevelopment of the derelict Hotspur Press site was unanimously approved while Jadebricks’ 15-storey Charles Street scheme was also given the go-ahead at the second time of asking.

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Carlisle’s Kingmoor makes four-strong factory shortlist

Holtec Britain has whittled down the contenders to host a production site to build a fleet of small modular reactors for use in the nuclear sector across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.

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Green light for Knutsford resi, Crewe and Adlington industrial

In a hat-trick of approvals, Cheshire East councillors voted on Wednesday to sign off Tatton Estate’s 275-home plans, Muse’s 1.4m sq ft Basford East, and Chancerygate’s 162,800 sq ft warehouses.

Bramhall’s Village Square on market for £8.8m

Wain Estates is looking to sell the 55,900 sq ft shopping centre and office complex, which sits between Ack Lane East and Bramhall Lane South in the Stockport community.

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Redrow awaits approval for 627 Ellesmere Port homes

Cheshire West and Chester Council’s planning committee will meet next week to run the rule over the next phases of the developer’s Ledsham Garden Village in Little Sutton.

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Plans tabled for £75m Manchester resi

Working with Central and Urban, JRL Group has submitted proposals for a 359-home scheme close to Piccadilly station.