http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/ Latest News Headlines from Place North West http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/assets/images/rss/maceandjones.gif http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk en Place North West sport Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:09:50 UTC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Dear Readers, Bear with us in February as we prepare to re-launch Place North West as part of Property Confidential in March 2012. The combined site will have a broader remit. It will not only cover t... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:10:41 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK British tea brand Typhoo is increasing the volume of its UK imports that are handled through the Port of Liverpool in a bid to reduce road miles and costs. Since summer 2011 Typhoo has routed around 3... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:49:45 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Halite Energy has applied for a development consent order to store up to 900 million cubic metres of natural gas in a network of caverns to be created 300 metres below ground in the Preesall salt fiel... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:39:23 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Bruntwood reported a slight rise of 2.5% in net asset value for its portfolio of 101 office buildings to £318m in the year to September 2011. The family-owned property company latest set of resul... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:26:25 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Nick Rice has left CBRE in Liverpool, where he was managing director of the office, to launch Nick Rice Consulting, specialising in commercial agency advice to occupiers. Rice left at Christmas and is... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:11:09 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Hodder + Partners has won a design competition for a 330-room hotel on the corner of Whitworth Street and London Road opposite Piccadilly Station and the Grade II* listed Fire Station in Manchester (... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:49:34 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Pendle-based Barnfield Construction has recruited a new health and safety manager, David Shaw, from Lancashire developer Holme Park. [IMG: 5617 align="left" hspace="0" height="132" border="0" width="1... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:44:42 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership is seeking bids from developers for grants from the Growing Places Fund after being awarded £13.19m by Government. The funding is available for ... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:39:46 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Aviva Investors, owner of the Triangle shopping centre, applied to Manchester City Council for the first phase of the transformation of the shopping centre and Exchange Square. The phase one proposals... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:06:25 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK A review of the stalled ING Real Estate retail scheme in Chester city centre is going to be discussed behind closed doors by the local authority next week. Council leaders at Cheshire West & Ches... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:11:06 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK The Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership, part of the LEP network replacing the regional development agencies, has secured more than £25m from the Government for the city's new Gro... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:53:58 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Former Lancashire Evening Post journalist Emilie Bradshaw has joined Manchester-based SLG Marketing. The business, which specialises in construction and engineering marketing, said Bradshaw had been a... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:47:36 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Colliers International's Manchester-based industrial team handled 52 deals last year, representing a total of two million sq ft. The number of deals was down by 22% from 67 in 2010 when the total ... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:33:55 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Stockport Council is planning to buy the long leasehold on the Debenhams store in the centre of town as a way of bringing forward a leisure-led scheme at the nearby Bridgefield site. The council's... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:12:10 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Galliford Try has started work on a new £5m health centre in the Kensington district of Liverpool. The centre, on Edge Lane, is part of wider £350m regeneration plans around the road which i... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:45:29 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Seddon Construction has started on site at a new £4.8m primary school in Warrington. The new Great Sankey school, designed by Manchester-based SBS Architects, will feature low-energy, sustainable... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:23:58 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Greater Manchester Police have made five arrests following allegations two councillors at Bury Council accepted bribes in relation to a planning application. Five men, aged between 45 and 69, were arr... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:46:52 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK The Peel Group is selling Castle Quay, the converted Castlefield warehouse that is home to the radio station Key 103 and others. The Grade II-listed building is being marketed by Jones Lang LaSalle wi... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:38:24 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Belfast-based builder Gilbert Ash NI has started work on the new Everyman theatre in Liverpool. The new venue on Hope Street has been designed by Haworth Tompkins. The old Everyman closed in July 2011... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:14:55 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Restaurant and bar chain Living Ventures is gearing up for the launch of its 27th venue. It is opening a pub called The Botanist in Alderley Edge on the former site of the Number 15 Wine Bar. The move... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:54:18 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Towerbeg, a subsidiary of the Belfast-based Benmore Group, has been given the green light for a £50m leisure and retail complex in south Liverpool, despite opposition from the Peel Group and Ford... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:06:46 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Former national director at Jones Lang LaSalle, Andy Frost, has launched his own consultancy. Frost Planning, based in Prestbury, Cheshire, will specialise in securing consents for landowners, develop... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:18 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Manchester's property sector is preparing itself for a week in Cannes as the annual MIPIM exhibition draws near. But what is the city showcasing to the rest of the world? According to Marketing Ma... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:32:09 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Andrew Ruffler has been appointed as the new regional director of the architects organisation, taking over from Belinda Irlam-Mowbray, who has been promoted to assistant director of nations and region... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:01:32 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Cheshire-based contractor and developer Pochin said it remains in talks with an unnamed party to sell its loss-making concrete pumping business, with a sale due to be completed soon. Reporting its ha... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:04:46 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK A new 44-metre footbridge linking Manchester's Spinningfields with central Salford has been lowered into place over the River Irwell. Funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Spinningfie... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:51:03 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Preston-based property company, Roundhouse Properties, has secured planning consent to build 72,000 sq ft of non-food retail site south of the city centre. The retail scheme will be situated near Rou... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:42:59 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Royal London Asset Management's 21,000 sq ft office building in New Islington, east Manchester, will be called Fabrica, after the area's textile heritage. RLAM said Fabrica, on the corner of P... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:20:23 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Steve Merridew has been promoted from senior environmental designer to environmental design director and head of sustainability after three years at BDP. Merridew replaces Dave Ritter, who has joined... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:10:22 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Cheshire East Council has withdrawn the planning application for a waste transfer station at Lyme Green in Macclesfield following opposition from local residents. The council will now hold further ta... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:48 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Manchester's inward investment agency Midas has hired a former member of the Sharp Project's management team to push the city's creative credentials to potential investors. Sam Evans has b... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:10:34 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Mental health care provider the Priory Group has taken 2,488 sq ft of office space on a five-year lease from landlords NFB Imports in Preston's waterfront business park Riversway Docklands. The n... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:00:40 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Transport for Greater Manchester has submitted detailed plans for the new rail and bus interchange in Bolton town centre. The new interchange next to Bolton railway station, on land bounded by Newport... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:39:44 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK JCB heir Joe Bamford has brought on board Harrow Estates to take forward ambitious plans for the former Woodford Aerodrome. Bamford's Avro Heritage will work with Harrow Estates, part of Redrow, t... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:49:48 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Work has started on a £1.2m postgraduate dental practice for the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. The 6,200 sq ft facility was designed by architectural practice Cassidy & Ashton ... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:33:35 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce is assembling a framework of suppliers to offer its 5,200 members approved materials, consultancy and installation services. The UK's largest chamber is wor... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:06:49 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Investment and asset manager Addington Capital has received planning consent for a £3m redevelopment of Charter Walk Shopping Centre in Burnley. The Market Square area of the centre will be refu... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:26:27 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Fund manager Invesco Real Estate has completed the purchase for £42m of the 110,000 sq ft office in central Manchester. The sale represents a net initial yield of 6.3%. The building, designed by... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:12:42 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Salford University's Retrofit 2012 conference this week concluded by focusing on the challenge of changing behaviour in the UK to achieve carbon reduction targets. Around 350 delegates attended t... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:46:15 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Liverpool Mutual Homes and Liverpool City Council are to spend £4m refurbishing 74 properties in the 1970s Boot Estate in Norris Green. The homes were scheduled for demolition more than a decade... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:13:42 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Merseytravel has completed an 18-month, £7m programme of improvements to the Queensway Tunnel between Wirral and Liverpool. The 78-year-old road tunnel received new ceramic steel cladding through... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:54:56 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Warrington-based Arley Homes has appointed Andy Morgan, former land director of McInerney Homes North West, as its new land manager. Morgan has 30 years' experience in the industry, including a s... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:48:44 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Savills has launched the Runcorn Prospectus for its client Halton Council, a portfolio of residential-led mixed-use sites in and around the town centre. The first wave of sites coming to market includ... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:27:39 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK The historic hotel in North Wales is to undergo a £1.5m redevelopment and create 40 new jobs in time for the summer season. The upgrade, being carried out by Mold-based MPH Construction, is inten... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:16:13 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Home-shopping group Findel is to sell a residential site in Accrington after gaining planning consent from Hyndburn Council for demolition of a mill and development of 100 homes. The six-acre site in ... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:28:46 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Ask Developments has moved its head office to the Pinnacle in Manchester's King Street, taking the fifth floor on a sub-lease from law firm McGrigors following its relocation to Spinningfields. As... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:08:59 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Will Ainscough's Himor Group has appointed Northern Trust land regeneration director Mike Riding to head up a new strategic land and planning business, called Stratmor. Prior to joining Trevor Hem... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:57:33 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Architects CJP Partnership have won planning consent for a new 36,000 sq ft research facility in Rochdale for Dunphy Combustion. Dunphy develops and manufactures industrial burbners and boilers, with... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:39:30 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Wirral auction house Smith & Sons has announced details of its first sale of 2012 to be held at the Village Hotel in Bromborough on 22 February. There will be 31 lots available, including several... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:53:44 UTC http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk?utm_source=rss_place&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_term=NEWSLINK Innovation Chain North West, a partnership of four housing associations, has selected more than 40 firms of consultants and contractors to undertake projects throughout the North over the next four ye... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:47:25 UTC