The Subplot | A new new normal emerges

Manchester’s £4bn Victoria North development has received £1.5m from Labour’s new towns programme to help compile the business case for a tram stop in the heart of the emerging residential area.

One hundred Place North delegates heading to Cannes in four weeks gathered for an inaugural preview dinner at hotel voco in Manchester.

Hear from Beetham, Liverpool City Council, Peel’s Liverpool Waters, Halton Council, St Helens Council, Knowledge Quarter, LJMU, and Everton FC at Place’s annual briefing on the state of the property market in the city region.

Modern methods of construction’s troubled adolescence suggests that the move off-site is coming too soon for the culture and realities of the UK affordable housing sector. This has shaken the confidence of housing association development teams, boardrooms, and investors.

After years spent rumbling through planning, a large greenfield site in West Cumbria has come to market via sole agent Cushman & Wakefield.

Liverpool must present a clear investment strategy to the world to achieve its development potential, a roundtable debate heard during Labour party conference this week.

The city region Metro Mayors were everywhere this week and arguably had the best time of any cohort at the party conference as they rose to seize devolution’s elevated status under Labour.

While recognising that markets are dynamic, the Prime Minister told the party’s annual conference in Liverpool that they must not be left uncontrolled if the country is to become better managed.

Energy and infrastructure took centre stage at the Labour Party conference on Monday as Rachel Reeves promised to deliver investment to all parts of the country and Ed Miliband said he would take one million homes out of fuel poverty.

A pivotal land deal that could help unlock the economic benefits of the proposed new Manchester United FC stadium is being worked on by metro mayors Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.

Brownfield passports, ‘full devolution across the North’, and a new Decent Homes Standard featured on day one of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool as Angela Rayner got the big speeches underway.

A floating solar farm in a dock at the Port of Barrow will be the first major project to come forward under a bold new masterplan for ABP’s docks in Cumbria.

The park’s historic buildings, gates, railings, lake will all be upgraded over four years if a £1.5m funding allocation is approved by Wirral Council’s tourism committee on Thursday.

“It’s been eventful and has gone in the blink of an eye,” Joanne Roney told guests on her last day as chief executive of Manchester City Council before taking up her new role in Birmingham.

The number of social housing tenants buying their homes from local authorities fell by one third across the North last year, as higher interest rates hit people’s ability to access loans.

Oliver Jones-Orrells has joined Becca Heron’s development team at Manchester City Council, where he spent many years as a principal development surveyor before joining Transport for Greater Manchester.

A former waste recycling centre next to Junction 11 of the M60 will be turned into a 108,500 sq ft multi-let industrial park by Peel Waters.

A nine-point action plan has been approved by the council as it fights to regain local control of its own planning decisions, having been punished for poor performance by Michael Gove last year.

An English Devolution Bill will be introduced by Labour to enable “greater devolution of decision making,” one of dozens of new bills coming forward in the next parliamentary session.