Cheshire East to appoint partner to map out ‘Greater Crewe’ ambitions

Ian Steele has joined the consultancy as a director after more than 20 years at Avison Young.

Place North West readers have spoken, and the St Peter’s Square destination has been voted as the building from the last 100 years that has had the biggest impact on the city.

Cllr Garry Bridges has been elected as the new leader of the city’s Labour Group and will formally take up the city council’s top job tomorrow.

Lack of office offering in Liverpool city centre led Aslan Labs Group to pursue space across the Mersey, with the research and strategy firm looking to take the entire 6,200 sq ft ground floor of the council-owned building.

A contractor has been appointed to get started on delivering the 1,715-place Category C facility between HMP Garth and HMP Wymott in Leyland,  a scheme that was approved by the government after being marked for refusal three times – once by the local authority and twice by the Planning Inspectorate.

Plans to construct a hotel on the former bus depot site off Bransty Row are due to be submitted within three months by developer and landowner BEC.

Working with housing providers Anwyl and Magenta, Hampstead Regeneration wants to build on 10 acres off Ferry Road in Eastham. 

Hines has bought the 228,000 sq ft complex from St James’ Place.

Concerns about highway safety led to Cheshire West and Chester Council’s planning committee deferring the developer’s plans for 240 homes off Dunkirk Way in Backford Cross.

Centre for Cities has proposed a range of interventions aimed at bringing English cities in line with French and Japanese counterparts when it comes to residential density around train stations.

The sector specialist wants to deliver a 66-bed care home off Ridge Avenue, on the north-eastern edge of the Lancashire town.

The cybersecurity specialist has signed for the 4,500 sq ft fifth floor at the grade two-listed Manchester office building.

The council has worked up a brief to advise developers on how it wants to see five acres in the town centre transformed, a scheme described by the authority as a short-term priority project.

The 22 acres around Newbridge Lane will be the anchor of the borough’s 4,000-home Town Centre East masterplan, with the council aiming to create a family-friendly neighbourhood with biodiversity and flood resilience as a focus.

A hurdle standing in the way of Morris Homes and CEG’s proposed redevelopment of 52 acres in Cottam could be overcome this week, after the city council’s planning team accepted the developers’ argument that affordable homes within a neighbouring scheme should count towards their total.

With a £1.3bn redevelopment primed to start at Leighton Hospital, the latest large-scale residential application in the area has been set in motion, with 236 acres mapped out by the land promoter.

Landowner Arkangel Towers has applied to Manchester City Council for planning permission to build a two-storey facility capable of hosting a range of events including weddings.

Bank of Ireland has provided loan facilities to the company for Acer and Fernley, two co-living towers within the developer’s £400m Square Gardens development that provide 1,862 units.