Transport bosses slam funding cuts

Proposals to improve the performance and punctuality of the city-region’s creaking rail network have been unveiled for consultation, with the best of three options set to be rolled out from May 2022.

Two applications from the housebuilder are set to secure the green light from Trafford’s planning committee next week, bringing 450 homes to land bordering the Manchester Ship Canal.

The Treasury aims to establish its much-trailed Northern campus, dubbed ‘Treasury North’, before the next election, and fresh details about the Government’s strategy to move thousands of civil servants out of London as part of the ‘levelling up’ agenda are expected in the coming weeks.

The real estate services company has appointed Karl Clawley to lead the group’s facilities management and property management teams.

New roosts, home-schooling hacks, red-faced mayors and city centre parks.

Here is our pick of some of the most important and interesting projects to look out for in the Manchester and Liverpool city-regions, and the rest of the North West, in the next 12 months.

Network Rail will undertake improvements to Macclesfield and Atherton stations in the first quarter of next year.

The creative economist and chair of the Baltic Creative cluster of businesses in Liverpool, talks about blowing her student grant the week before starting university, and how art can be used to transform places.

Government backing of £20m through the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal has been confirmed, enabling work to move forward on the improvement of the railway station and its approaches.