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An affordable housing development could be built on 8.9 acres off Elton Head Road in St Helens, should the council approve the scheme.

Mandy Falkingham has been promoted to the company’s core leadership team after working at the architecture firm for 28 years.

Having already secured consent for a 5,500-capacity stand at the STōK Cae Ras, the club now wants to increase the size of the project in the hopes of hosting international matches in the future.

QA Higher Education has expanded its footprint at St James’ on Manchester’s Oxford Street to 37,000 sq ft.

Mayr-Melnhof Packaging has sold its former North Wales home to Knightsbridge House Estates for substantially below the £4.5m guide price, according to market sources.

The county council is offering a £660,000 contract to a multidisciplinary team to take forward plans for the eastern gateway, a project that includes a new transport hub and a 70,000 sq ft office.

A 23-acre plot to the west of the village has been earmarked for development in outline plans submitted to Cheshire East Council.

Plans to use a combined 150 acres in Lymm and Northwich for ground-mounted solar panels have been approved by Warrington Council and the Planning Inspectorate respectively.

The seventh and part of the eighth floors of the 210,000 sq ft Manchester block have been let to the government department, enabling it to move from the fourth and fifth floors to take up more space.

Two housing schemes, Robert Hughes’ plans for Carnforth and Oakemere Homes’ Nether Kellet neighbourhood, were greenlit by the local authority on Monday, as per the planning officers’ recommendation.

A total of 261,000 sq ft was let in Manchester during April, May, and June, down on the 320,000 sq ft transacted in the first quarter of the year.

A recent study by The Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government found that 95% of the projects it had data on were behind schedule, with unexpected costs and inflation listed as the chief reasons.

Cubico Sustainable Investments’ £200m Scout Moor Two comprises 17 turbines and could power 77% of homes across Rochdale and Rossendale.

The government’s sweeping policy reforms and increased funding for homes have created the most hospitable environment for housing delivery in years, speakers at a roundtable facilitated by Onward Homes said.

The housebuilder has appealed the Lancashire council’s rejection of its plan to build 74 homes on seven acres of former grazing land south of Accrington Road in Whalley.

Bek Seeley has been appointed as chair of Platform4, a development company combining the efforts of LCR and Network Rail’s property team to unlock housing on sites such as Mayfield in Manchester.

The county council has opted to fight against plans for a 70-acre housing scheme when the project heads to appeal later this year, despite being advised by officers not to.

With earlier plans scaled down for apartments in a former Sports Direct close to Blackpool Tower, the developer has lodged a fresh application for the building’s upper floors.

Laura Percy has been appointed as development director at Muse, departing Landsec after two years.