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Under the Flintshire-based developer’s proposals, the former Focus School site in Heaton Mersey would become a mixture of retirement apartments and semi-detached houses.

Partnering alongside housing association Pendleton Together, the council is drawing up final plans for 575 market homes, 173 affordable ones and an extra care scheme.

Sharon Gill, Laura Telford and Dan Sidlow have all become directors at the multi-disciplinary consultancy.

Construction work by Wates is under way for Star Salford Academy off Longshaw Drive in Little Hulton.

An inquiry conducted by the Planning Inspectorate will begin on 15 November to see whether or not Bolton Council was right in rejecting the developers’ Creams Mill and Hall Lane project.

The housebuilder’s Harrow Estates division has lodged plans for a 16,603 sq ft local retail centre to serve new homes at the former airfield site.

Wanted: a company to design, engineer, and deliver the nearly 27-acre Chamber House Solar Farm in Heywood.

Mark O’Mullane has been recruited from Lothbury Investment Management to join the urban regeneration company.

Plans have been lodged for a new special needs secondary school in Cheadle Hulme and to move Audenshaw’s Hawthorns School to a new site in Mottram in Longdendale.

Ongoing efforts to improve safety standards have seen Intelligent FS secure a £3.5m contract to reclad Milliners Wharf in Manchester, while Morgan Sindall could face a £50m repairs bill.

“We cannot continue to repeat the mistakes of the past – failing to invest in central Manchester’s rail links has led to rail chaos across the North time and again,” said Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester.

Peter Jackson has joined the project management consultancy after five years as a director at Turner & Townsend.

The skyscraper developer noted a 12% decrease in turnover in its financial report for the year ending 31 October.

Katie Daniels has been promoted to director at the town planning consultancy after three years with the Cheadle Hulme-based company.

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Set to open in early September, the Manchester site is the fourth location in the city for the flexible workspace provider.

Potential developer partners are being asked to weigh in on plans to create a smart neighbourhood in Stockport Town Centre West ahead of formally launching a procurement exercise later this month.

The property group has reported a 2% increase in pre-tax profit in the six months to 30 June, as group revenue climbed 9% to £1.7bn.

Kayleigh Owen has been promoted to lead the consultancy’s cost and commercial management team.