Plans in for 140-home Lancashire village development

Legal & General Investment Management is understood to have exchanged contracts to buy one of the towers within Renaker's 1,500-apartment Owen Street development, currently under construction in Manchester.

Moss Side’s ageing leisure centre is currently undergoing an extensive overhaul with contractor ISG set to complete in November this year. Place North West visited the site to see how the centre is being fully refurbished to provide modern facilities for the local area.

MCR Property Group is looking to convert a Victorian mill in Manchester’s New Cross into luxury apartments after acquiring a site on Mason Street.

An OMI-designed housing scheme on the site of the Old House At Home pub on Burton Road will go before Manchester City Council’s planning committee next week with a recommendation to approve, despite objections from more than 80 local residents.

A bistro and piazza will open at Prescot’s Market Place in January next year with construction work now under way on the Mark Wray Architects-designed project.

Knowing that his future lay in the property industry came 25 years ago for Tom Bloxham of Urban Splash. However, a revelation about the future of the sector came much more recently in 2005, when he first witnessed offsite construction in action.

Specialist agency LM6 has let a 24,000 sq ft unit at Nexus Industrial Estate in Knowsley on behalf of Tilstone Industrial.

Developer Himor has appointed Mark Booth, its finance director for the last two years, as its new managing director, replacing Darren Jones who left in late 2017.

Nick Johnson, the ex-Urban Splash man at the head of Altrincham’s market-led renaissance and Manchester’s Mackie Mayor, has lodged plans for a food hall at Macclesfield’s Picturedrome.

The developer is inviting public views on its plans for further residential phases at New Islington in Manchester with a consultation taking place between 2pm and 7pm at Keepers Quay today.