Cinema operator signs at Crewe’s Royal Arcade

Detailed logistical plans have been drawn up to demolish the fire-damaged 1,400-space car park at Liverpool's Kings Dock, which still contains 1,100 burnt-out cars inside that have been unable to be removed due to concerns over the strength of the building.

Salford City Council has spoken of its frustration with Government delays affecting the replacement of cladding at nine Pendleton tower blocks, works that were due to start in full this summer.

Bardsley Construction has started on site at the £4m project for Silverlane Developments on the edge of the Bury suburb, which is expected to complete in August next year.

Plans for a 22-storey hotel to be built on a long-vacant site on the approach to Piccadilly station, alongside the restoration and re-use of the grade-two listed former Union Bank, have been submitted to Manchester City Council.

Free beer from self-styled hooligan brewers, spanking anodised panels, a waste food project and motorists griping about both cyclists and speed bumps, it's all here in THING OF THE WEEK.

Online beauty business The Hut Group has released a fly-through visualisation of its proposed 1m sq ft campus at Airport City, details of which were confirmed earlier this week.

Fragrance Group, represented by Savills, has purchased St Chads Hotel in Blackpool from a family business for an undisclosed sum, its third acquisition in the town within the last two years.

The role of councils in the future of struggling retail centres, competitive socialising, clicks returning to bricks, and of course, Brexit, all featured at this year's Revo conference in Manchester.

Logik, the Andrew Flintoff-fronted developer, will have to try again after the application for its scheme in Castlefield, dominated by a 35-storey tower, received a ‘minded to refuse’ verdict at September’s planning committee.

Packaged Living is the latest developer operator to join the build-to-rent boom, with a £25m pot to invest in finding sites nationally, and a strong interest in developing in Manchester, Liverpool and Salford, according to managing director Ed Ellerington.