River Properties pushes Lytham St Annes project forward

Located close to Manchester Airport, the Whitbread-owned asset is to be increased in size from 87 rooms to 123.

Administrator FRP Advisory has tasked Sanderson Weatherall with finding a buyer for St Gerard’s in Bangor, which closed this month.

Industrial agency specialist John Sullivan has left Colliers after 10 years to join Cushman & Wakefield as a partner.

There has been radio silence on Arrowsmith Management’s plans for a 26-storey residential scheme next to the Britons Protection pub since they were lodged in 2022. Four years on, the proposal has been scrapped.

Part of the Department for Education’s Gen Zero Pathfinder programme, the 900-place secondary school’s structure will be made of cross-laminated timber.

Meridian 6 has secured its first occupier. Dino Decking is due to take 60,500 sq ft at the 517,400 sq ft complex, which is the subject of three recent reserved matters applications.

The 2.7-acre St Catherine’s Wood, part of the emerging 5,000-home Red Bank neighbourhood within Victoria North, welcomed its first visitors on Friday.

Fylde Council has granted the housebuilder permission for 40 homes off Bryning Lane, a scheme that dates back to 2016.

Manchester Super Giants, Lancashire County Cricket Club’s The Hundred franchise, has bought land next to Emirates Old Trafford that has permission for 228 apartments.

The housebuilder can proceed with 175 homes off Huddersfield Road in Mossley, having won reserved matters approval.

Caroline Simpson has worked her last day as the chief executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Transport for Greater Manchester, taking up a key role in Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s No10 North.

The Duke of Westminster’s social enterprise is to acquire a site in the town centre with permission for 53 apartments from McCarthy Stone.

Should six acres off Arthur Lane be considered Grey Belt? That will be the question the Planning Inspectorate must ponder at an upcoming inquiry.

Burnham, takeaways, and family fortunes.

The redevelopment of the Civic Hall and Sports Centre, former Wilkos, former Mark House building, and Dixons building are among the proposals in the council’s latest masterplan to regenerate the harbour town.

The local authority has agreed to dispose of the derelict pub on Shore Road to GSL Developments, which plans to transform the building into a hospitality venue.

Two plots totalling more than eight acres near the junction of the A6 and the airport relief road are earmarked for development by the land promoter.

Cavendish Nuclear and Amentum want to build a facility in Cumbria to process sodium coolant from the £2.6bn decommissioning of the Japanese Monju Fast Breeder Reactor.

Acting on behalf of the BMW Pension Fund, Legal & General Investment Management has appointed Index Real Estate to elicit unconditional bids for a site within Trafford Park with consent for either a data centre or a 175,000 sq ft shed.