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With just nine weeks to go until the 2025 edition of the international property expo in Cannes, now is the time to think about how to get the most out of the event. Place North has you covered.

Place North West will take a break from 21 December until Tuesday 2 January 2025, when the first news of the year will be published on the website and Place Daily Briefing will return.

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Cheeky elves, planning kerfuffles, and Lidl obessions.

A new partnership with Manchester City Council, an expansion to Yorkshire and the North East, and a newly created advisory board will position the non-profit to grow the number of young people it works with to more than 1,000 a year.

No1 Dovecote has a new tenant, with the independent eye hospital signing a 10-year lease for the ground floor of the building.

Place North West published more than 2,400 stories this past year, 60 videos, and 36 podcasts. Here are the 10 headlines that caught your eye the most, the three videos you watched again and again, and the podcasts that carried you through your commute in 2024.

Greater Manchester’s spatial strategy remains a point of contention, with a judge affirming that at least one legal challenge of the framework merits consideration by the High Court.

Manchester City Council approved Views Holdings’ application for 35 homes off Withington Road but opted to defer evaluating Soller Group’s £21m proposals for a 182,900 sq ft office block in the Northern Quarter.

Now able to boast a fully let badge, the £120m office block from Gary Neville’s Relentless Developments and US investor KKR has secured a tenant for its final 3,000 sq ft food and beverage unit ahead of opening in spring 2025.

Westmorland and Furness Council is looking to increase the budget for the Levelling Up Fund project by £6m as enabling work costs rise.

A four-storey block of 41 flats accompanied by nine terraced houses is proposed for the former Band Stand pub site off Wall Way in Gorton, under an application submitted by R S 786.

Drivers would be able to enjoy a bite to eat, fuel up, and rest on 34.5 acres off Junction 2 of the M55, should Moto Hospitality’s latest application secure planning permission.

Fans of the discount retailer will soon have a new 20,600 sq ft store to shop at in Litherland, with councillors voting to grant permission for the supermarket – as they also did for Redrow Homes’ pitch for a neighbourhood in Formby.

Bowsall Developments has gotten the all-clear from the council to construct a mixture of walk-up flats and two-, three-, and four-bedroom semi-detached and terraced houses on 3.8 acres off Preston New Road in Westby-with-Plumptons.

Legacie has secured a funding deal from Maslow Capital to progress The Gateway, an apartment complex off Leeds Street in the city’s Pumpfields district.

A new hospitality building and facilities hub make up the first phase of a wider, 15-year development plan geared towards modernising the sporting venue ahead of its 500th anniversary in 2039.

Consultation dates are due to be announced in January to discuss the future of the 106-acre Clitheroe site, one of the largest in the National Health Service’s estate.