Trafford retains right to rule on Ryebank Fields

The site of a failed DeTrafford scheme off Ellesmere Street is to be redeveloped into 592 apartments under plans submitted by the plot’s owner.

Ryebank Fields Community Group will now need to convince landowner Manchester Metropolitan University to go ahead with plans to turn the 11-acre brownfield site into a community woodland and meadowland.

Working with social provider First Choice, the firm can go ahead with 147 homes at the Southlink site. Less fortunate was Redwaters Estates, refused permission for a hotly-contested Failsworth proposal.

DJL Construction is aiming to deliver Huyton 220 for Linden Hill Capital Management by autumn next year.

The acquisitive property group has bought 4M Manchester Airport, the 85,000 sq ft block above the international gateway’s railway station.

Chester Gateway, Chester Northgate, Origin at Ellesmere Port, Crewe’s ongoing regeneration, the revitalising of Winsford town centre, and improvements to Warrington’s Sankey Street are just some of the projects due to benefit from the first round of awards.

With planning permission recently secured, the firm has been appointed as main contractor to redevelop the grade two-listed St Helens landmark.

Since 1980, successive governments have introduced more than 60 initiatives to fix housing affordability, writes Jeremy Hinds of CivicScape. Yet 1.33m households remain on waiting lists, 176,000 children live in temporary accommodation, rents are rising and homes cost around eight times average earnings.

RentGuarantor and Place will work together on four filmed roundtables in Manchester and Birmingham during 2027, bringing local authorities and housing leaders together to explore solutions to the housing crisis.

The financial services outfit joins BDO and TLT in ECF’s 12-storey Salford office building.

The bottle manufacturer and distributor wants to add a 272,500 sq ft warehouse at its Cheshire site, following demolition of legacy buildings.

Providing 50% of England’s renewable power and 40% of the UK’s electricity, the North is ready to write the nation’s next chapter in its energy future. To make that chapter as illustrious as it should be, Place North’s latest conference delved into the obstacles to be overcome, opportunities to be realised, and the work to be done.

Buyer Quorum Property told Place North West it is excited to take on the “blank canvas” of the building, the last part of the vendor’s Albert Estate portfolio to be sold off.

With consent secured in June for 122 homes on 13.7 acres east of Prescot Road, the housebuilder has finalised the site’s acquisition.

Paragon Property has secured approval from the local authority for a 286-bed apartment scheme off Chester Road.

The clothing retailer has agreed a long-term lease on a 10,181 sq ft unit, taking the town’s flagship shopping pitch to 92% occupancy.

King’s Leadership Academy Wavertree has operated out of a temporary structure for a year. Now, it’s looking to put down foundations, literally, on the former Sony and NatWest offices site off Stephenson Way.

Council members will vote next week on granting the University of Cumbria a £12m loan and a 125-year lease at peppercorn rent of properties off English Street – a move that should defrost the glacial pace of the mammoth project.

Work can begin in earnest on the £30m Nexus House, a 364-bedspace student living project, following clearance from the Building Safety Regulator.