Chris Oglesby, chief executive of the family-owned developer and investor, whose portfolio valuation broke through £1bn for the first time this year, talks to Paul Unger about suburban town centre markets, office-to-resi sales and the best office market he’s ever known in Manchester.
Better collaboration with local authorities and the private sector will see universities taking a more active role in large-scale community regeneration, a panel of industry experts told delegates.
Around 120 delegates attended Place North West’s conference in Manchester city centre, which was sponsored by Morgan Sindall.
Three decades after a train journey from London to Manchester when they decided to go into business, Ian Simpson and Rachel Haugh have grown their practice to 120 staff, delivered an extensive portfolio of work, and maintained one of the most productive partnerships in architecture.
A new era of ‘dream home’ ownership is coming, and it’s about time, writes Phillip Nunn of The Blackmore Group.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham told the Northern Transport Summit the region faces a critical six months if it is to make its case to Government for more investment in infrastructure.
He spoke at a day-long conference in central Manchester, hosted by Transport for the North and Place North West, sponsored by Remarkable Group, Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, TEM Planning and Broadway Malyan. [GALLERY + VIDEO]
The rise of online retail is fundamentally changing the logistics and industrial sector, according to the panel of industry experts at Place North West’s annual market briefing. [GALLERY]
Ed Howe and Izaak Sabo endured the heatwave to hike around some of the most prominent developments in Manchester and Salford, producing a snapshot of the bulging cityscape as the prolific development cycle takes form.
Disruption in the property industry is on the horizon, if not already here, as new technologies provide richer, data-driven intelligence. How will this affect the traditional agent, asks Georgina Power, MIPIM UK.
How the public and private sector can work together in a challenging environment for healthcare property was a major theme at the sector briefing, sponsored by Kier, TLT and SI Sealy.
“It would not be right for me as chief executive to walk around this city and only see the exciting tall buildings, and not see the vulnerable people. I need to deal with both.” Such is the balance that Manchester City Council’s chief executive Joanne Roney wants to strike in her new position.
The growth anticipated by the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework requires tough choices to be made on green belt development, Cllr Richard Farnell, leader of Rochdale Council, told the audience at the M60 Towns Development Conference.
Sir Howard Bernstein’s time as chief executive of Manchester City Council comes to an end today. Paul Unger visited Room 212 in the Town Hall earlier this week to talk handovers, missing the mayoral election, favourite architects and planners, not hitting the non-exec trail, a forthcoming museum exhibition in his honour, and much more.
