NML opens £45.6m tender for twin museum revamps

After a 2.5-year planning wait, O’Flynn Group’s student accommodation specialist has appointed GMI Construction group and commenced building, targeting a 2027/28 academic year opening.

Put up for sale in August with a guide price of just under £4m, the 60-bedroom Patterdale Hotel has been snapped up.

Plans for 37 homes on part of the Demmings Road industrial estate will proceed to Stockport’s main planning committee after receiving a thumbs-up at area level.

Once intended as a new home for Birkenhead Market, Wirral Council has now decided that part of the cleared Grange Road plot will be used to support ongoing regeneration projects.

The two local authorities are creating separate lists of vetted contractors to assist with structural repairs, drainage works, and carriageway maintenance.

Acknowledging its vulnerable position, Wrexham County Council’s planning team warned councillors legal challenges were likely to increase now that the latest approved spatial strategy is the Unitary Development Plan, which expired 15 years ago.

Gorton in Manchester will receive a new Community Diagnostics Centre, while an expansion has been signed off for the Paddington CDC in Liverpool.

In the largest office deal in Salford since the pandemic, Bankfoot APAM has signed the global audio branding agency to a 15-year lease at the former Colgate Palmolive factory.

The Midlands-based property company has acquired a 157,000 sq ft industrial unit at Pimbo Industrial Estate in Skelmersdale, let to the footwear brand on a 10-year lease.

Meet the candidates vying to become the county’s first mayor at this annual event, which provides attendees with the must-know information they need to spot opportunities and do business in Carlisle, Barrow, the Lake District National Park, and more.

It was a clean sweep for planning approvals on Wednesday morning, with councillors voting to grant permission to all four major applications on their desk.

Bankfoot APAM’s £33.5m plans for apartments and townhouses in Stalybridge and the Department for Education’s long-awaited replacement for Russell Scott Primary School in Denton both secured the go-ahead from councillors this morning.

NHS Property Services has lodged plans to convert the library into a replacement for the out-of-date Uplands Medical Practice building on Bury New Road.

The rural economy-focused lender has agreed terms on a 10-year lease with landlord Watkin Property Ventures at the Gorse Stacks office complex.

Armed with approval from the Welsh Government, the county council can start designing a 900-place replacement for the in-need-of-repair Ysgol Uwchradd Caergybi in Holyhead.

Three years on from securing a resolution to approve, an amended pitch for 115 homes at Quernmore will go before members next week.

Wigan councillors voted yesterday to approve the transformation of the grade two star-listed building into a 59,300 sq ft mixed-use arts and culture facility.

Void property poses several challenges for housing associations and social housing providers, but Andy Thompson, auctions expert and director at BTG Eddisons, argues that the solution to these could be found under the hammer.

A discount food store, variety retail store with garden centre, and petrol filling station make up part of the developer’s 77,300 sq ft vision for the 11-acre site in Lytham St Annes.