Beauty e-tailer takes space at Bruntwood’s Glasshouse

Football fashion, a plague of cyclops, insta-instructions, morale-boosting signage and golf trips gone wrong.

An entity of TaylorHighdale, a developer headed up by directors Robert Taylor and former Liverpool footballer Sean Highdale, wants to build 86 apartments across two blocks on the corner of Blundell Street and Simpson Street in the city centre.

Asset manager Altered Space, under its Maloneview SPV, has won consent to further redevelop the 60,000 sq ft The Square shopping centre in the town centre, following approval in March for a wider mixed-use scheme at the site. 

Developer Network Space has leased the penultimate unit at the £13m St Helens industrial scheme to an undisclosed US firm believed to be furniture retailer Wayfair.com.

Blackpool Council is looking to appoint a design practice to draw up a masterplan for a higher education facility next to Blackpool North train station, as part of the ongoing regeneration of Talbot Gateway. 

If the proposals are put in place, it will be interesting to see if the local plan process does become more simplified and is able to progress at pace, writes Sebastian Tibenham of Pegasus Group.

Operator ASM Global has launched a consultation for the first of a two-phase redevelopment of the venue - which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year - and intends to submit a planning application at the end of this month

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has published a white paper outlining proposed changes to England’s planning system, including slashing delivery targets and scrapping section 106 contributions to bring forward 300,000 new homes each year. 

Sholom Cohen, associate director in Avison Young's Manchester office, has been invited by the chief executive of the British Property Federation, Melanie Leech, to take a place on the organisation’s Regional Policy Committee.