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Contest?? Really......?

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Can't see this one being missed, it's a pretty miserable looking...

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004 is clearly the best scheme it is a simple dignified and well...

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I think there is more political undertone here than actual substansive...

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Grammar: "one of the only"? Either it is one of a number, or it...

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Seems to have been a number of Directors 'stepping down' from...

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City Square unveiled

24 Aug 2010, 09:12  

Smelling of barbecues is okay but going home smelling of burger vans is not so good. Once they get the ventilation right under the giant canopies - filled with greasy smoke by kick-off - the new Manchester City FC fan...

Paul Unger

The editor of Place North West gives his views on the region's property and regeneration industry from the big news to the petty squabbles.


Localism should not mean parochialism

17 Aug 2010, 09:44   1 View Comments

In the run up to this year's General Election, the Conservative Party promoted the idea of 'localism' over the 'regionalism' agenda that had been pursued by the Labour government for 13 years. Since...

Frank McKenna

Downtown chairman on life, business and the universe

A good walk spoiled

16 Aug 2010, 14:47  

Mark Twain said a lot of witty things, but his comment on golf is one I would take issue with. I have toyed with golf - or vice versa - for most of my adult life, both as a player, as a spectator and as an author of a...

Richard Percy

Partner at Steven Abbott Associates, the Wigan-based consultancy, on the wonderful world of planning

The History Men

16 Aug 2010, 09:00   2 View Comments

I could only bear to watch one of the episodes in the series of documentaries about English Heritage which first aired over a year ago and was repeated recently on BBC. The Park Hill one, where the visiting English...

Paul Unger

The editor of Place North West gives his views on the region's property and regeneration industry from the big news to the petty squabbles.


Hotel California

26 Jul 2010, 14:06   2 View Comments

Professional curiosity and Paul Unger's recent blog entry drew me to Bury's Rock development on Saturday. It is after all my local town centre and I was hoping for something to lift the spirits and to replace...

Andrew Watt

The founding partner of Maze Planning shares the view from his Bury fortress

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