Gleeson outlines 171-home Carlisle estate

A number of key responsibilities are expected to return to the city council’s jurisdiction imminently, two years after government agents were sent in to oversee the troubled authority.

Bellway is expecting the go-ahead for its plans to build a total of 244 houses across two schemes in Croft and Winwick, with Richborough Estates’ 110-home development in Hollins Green also set for the green light.

Proposals to redevelop the office building at 19-37 High Street into 45 apartments follow approval of the company’s plans for a similar scheme in Manchester.

Monte Blackburn wants to build seven industrial units across 48 acres off Junction 5 of the M65, a site set to be released from the Green Belt under the borough’s emerging local plan.

The Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology will establish a second home at Trinity Bridge House, while Wrexham is set to welcome more than 300 civil service roles as part of Whitehall’s Places for Growth programme.

It took the council less than 15 minutes to approve the developer’s plans to build five commercial units across 18 acres at Earlsfield Park.

Formerly occupied by an apartment building, the two-acre brownfield plot off South John Street will feature 32 residences in a mix of houses and flats under the housebuilder’s plans.

Quest Personal Care Global has signed a 10-year lease at £13.50/sq ft on the first floor of Maple Court at The Prime Group’s Swinton site.

Seddon Homes can now progress with its residential plans in Knuzden, while the council’s proposals to transform Accrington’s Market Hall have taken a step forward with temporary facilities approved.

Feasibility studies will be undertaken to explore highway and safety improvement options, paving the way for a detailed masterplan intended to unlock wider regeneration in the Cheshire market town.

Signature Housing Group’s plans include demolishing Waterloo House to make way for the housing block off Egerton Street, as well as the repurposing of the grade two-listed Carnegie Library next door into a local meeting space.

Situated within Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, the 16-storey apartment block will sit on the corner of Park Lane and Liver Street to provide 90 apartments just a one-minute walk from Liverpool One.

Eren Holding wants to deliver a 69 MW combined heat and power plant along with a boiler building, a year after it was granted permission for 3.1m sq ft of new factory space at the Deeside Industrial Park site.

Tilbury Douglas will build the 24,000 sq ft facility off West Starkey Street in Heywood, provided the secretary of state does not call in the application due to objections to the loss of playing fields.

Albert Park House would replace the vacant property at 123 Great Cheetham Street West, the site of two unsuccessful attempts at residential redevelopment.

Construction has begun on the site of the former Guardian printworks at Ashburton Point to deliver the 150,000 sq ft warehouse on behalf of development partners Graftongate and DTZ Investors.

The Stanworth Land scheme would be delivered across 100 acres of Green Belt fields at Junction 3 of the M65 in an effort to meet the “currently unmet local demand” for logistics space in Lancashire.

A planning application has been submitted for the demolition of the buildings across Knowsley Council’s existing estate in the town centre, at the same time as a new 7,000 sq ft creative hub has opened off Derby Road.

A lack of affordable housing and concerns over Section 106 agreements proved to be the downfall of Carpenter Investments’ plans to deliver 261 apartments at One Kings Dock Street.