GMCA allocates another £163m from Good Growth Fund

Christopher Dee has been appointed to sell the 58,000 sq ft The Alex, which is let to M&S and the Ministry for Homes, Communities, and Local Government.

Labour’s Dan Price and Conservative’s Ben Fletcher agree on one thing: building homes must be a priority for the future leader of the sub-region. How they approach the issue, however, is different.

Headquartered in Gateshead, the consultancy said the move will allow it to better support long-standing clients across the North West.

Legal & General has selected the Derbyshire-based contractor to build a 12-storey office at Ralli Quays overlooking the Irwell.

The developer’s plans for a 17-storey tower next to the popular Marble Arch pub have already secured a £27.4m loan from the GMCA.

The historic Manchester library will receive £6.4m from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, advancing the £12m project to expand the asset’s scope across all floors of its grade two*-listed home once again.

Announced at Place’s Energy & Power event this morning, the energy firm has reworked its plans for an onshore wind farm between Rossendale and Rochdale, the main element being a reduction from 17 turbines to 12.

Cardboard box manufacturer eCorrugated has signed a long-term lease at Arrow Capital Partners’ Aviator Park.

Onward Homes and Starship Build want to deliver 88 affordable homes at the garden village, while the council plans to revamp the Halewood green space with two artificial pitches and a clubhouse.

The active developer and housing association have joined forces to work up plans for the redevelopment of a site last occupied by toy manufacturer RMS into affordable homes.

Oliver Cookson, the founder of MyProtein, has teamed up with the hotel giant on the redevelopment of the former Shena Simon campus and will name the hotel after himself.

Landowner Chester Race Company is working with UK Land & Property and the listed residential platform on proposals for a 300-apartment build-to-rent scheme on the site of the former Linenhall stables in the city centre.

The saga surrounding the future of 10 acres on the Manchester/Trafford border is coming to a head with the first of two applications presenting very different visions for the site due to go before committee.

Bellway’s proposal off Cumber Lane and a Dean Row Road project put forward by Jones Homes and Taylor Wimpey can advance, adding 300 homes to a supply that remains short of target.

Pendle Council is recommending plans for 84 homes on the former Fernbank Mill site for approval after the developer reduced the number of homes by 14 to mitigate flood risk.

Officers recommend that the council’s executive approve the hand-back of the office-led Sale Waterside complex, delivered under a private finance initiative contract agreed in 2002.

Bringing together those shaping the built environment of the North West, Yorkshire, and North East; the North of England at MIPIM delegation is due to be the largest yet with an agenda as ambitious as the region it represents.

Jarron Developments has triggered site enabling and demolition works at the Pumpfields site, ahead of a 401-home project.

Peel Ports has applied for permission to demolish an “unsightly and dangerous” jetty at Princes Dock located where a long-proposed modern terminal would be constructed.