Green light for revised £100m Eden Project Morecambe 

Elections in Lancashire and across the country will go ahead as planned in May after the government reversed a decision to delay them following a legal challenge by Reform UK.

Cheshire West and Chester Council has agreed terms on a land deal with Rothstone Estates that will see the retailer deliver an 18,000 sq ft foodhall on the site of a former depot off Leicester Street.

JD.com has signed for 9,250 sq ft at Trade City in Cheetham Hill.

The council’s cabinet housing committee has signed off backing for four developments to be progressed by Stockport Homes Group, with a combined value of £57.4m.

United Utilities has outlined ambitions for £225m-worth of improvements to the city’s wastewater treatment works and £300m to Eccles’ over the next five years.

Manchester Metropolitan University and Unite Students have appointed the contractor to deliver the £286m redevelopment of the Cambridge Halls student village.

The arena has shared its ambitions to create a ‘super suite’ and increase its capacity, filing a variation to premises licence application with the city council.

Sefton Council has taken receipt of an application for the local employer’s base and some commercial units on a vacant plot at Southport Business Park.

Bury-based Sterling Property, connected to the group of businesses controlled by billionaire Together founder Henry Moser, has secured consent for an 82-bed scheme.

As local plan preparation ramps up, the council is seeking pitches from landowners, developers, site promoters, and the local community for land that could be developed to meet local needs and improve the authority’s housing land supply position.

A vacant car dealership on Stockport Road in Hyde is all set to be reconfigured into a 4,400 sq ft Sainsbury’s and 8,000 sq ft PureGym, with the council voting to approve the project at its recent planning committee meeting.

The Leeds-headquartered building regulations and compliance adviser is looking forward to representing the North of England on the international stage in three weeks’ time.

Westchurch Homes has completed the 106-house project for the affordable housing provider, three years after the project broke ground.

BTG Eddisons will take top billing at AO Arena on 1 October for a spectacular evening to celebrate the success of the Northern property industry.

Focusing on a 27-acre chunk of at the heart of the town, a strategy has been devised to ensure Urmston retains its vitality in the face of shifting market dynamics around retail and usher in the next wave of regeneration projects.

A 75,000 sq ft warehouse will replace Washington House, an office building at Birchwood Park in Warrington.

Beauty, choppers, and raves.

Around 15,000 sq ft on the ground floor of a former 19th-century mill at the Eckersley Mill complex will be converted into a “large-scale social playground”, according to the developer.

What can a new town in Worcestershire learn from the Indian city of Chandigarh? And can the would-be planners of Adlington, Cheshire pick up a few tips from Paris? A new report from the town planners’ institute certainly thinks so.