SCP hires associate director

As four years of restoration work begins on Elizabeth Tower, home of the Big Ben bell at the North end of the Houses of Parliament, M&E engineering designer SI Sealy has confirmed it is working on the £29m project from its Stockport office.

Russell Homes has launched Saltersford Gardens, a £25.5m nine-acre development in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire.  

Ten years ago, I watched with wide-eyed adolescent enthusiasm as Manchester’s cityscape transformed. Excitement and optimism were in the air, jostling for space amongst the cranes which littered the city’s skyline at the time, writes Ed Howe.

Cadnant Planning is in pre-application discussions with Denbighshire County Council over the development of the Bryn Morfydd Hotel & Lodge Park.

Details of Hodder + Partners’ design for the 39-storey tower set to be built as part of the St Michael’s development in Manchester city centre have been revealed as part of a public consultation event taking place today.

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram joined with leaders from Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield for a transport summit aimed at forcing improved trans-northern rail links to the top of the government's agenda.

Work on Preston North End FC’s new training ground, which won planning permission earlier this month, has been pushed back to late September or October due to great crested newts.

Cheshire Police and the Health & Safety Executive have yet to identify what caused a crane to collapse, killing three men at a Crewe building site in June.  

Architect Constructive Thinking has submitted a planning proposal with developer JD Estates for a residential block in Liverpool.  

Rogue Artists Studio has completed its move out of Capital & Centric’s Crusader Mill in Manchester city centre, taking over a Victorian former school in Openshaw as its new headquarters.