£1bn data centre campus planned for Anglesey

Despite delays to the promised government reforms on planning, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has outlined ambitions to bring back regional spatial strategies. Plus: rent controls and Manchester offices.

For a second consecutive year, the prolific regeneration company has teamed up with Place North to support and showcase its growing pipeline of transformational projects across the patch.

Eren Holdings, the owner of the 210-acre Shotton Mill site at Deeside Industrial Park, wants its tissue production to become “a flagship exemplar project in the UK and Europe.”

In total, £14m has been injected into Edwards Homes’ 141-property development, with Lloyds-backed Housing Growth Partnership providing £2.7m of equity.

Main contractor Wynne Construction has handed over the 46,200 sq ft educational facility, whose public-facing Iâl Spa opened for business today.

Oliver Johnston and Gareth Haslam have been promoted to commercial director and technical director, respectively, at the Flintshire-headquartered housebuilder.

The RIBA award-winning Stoller Hall swapped out live music for an intriguing Place North Question Time event, where political leaders, investors, and industry figures took to a panel to take questions from Place North’s editorial team and members of the audience.

Despite the odds, the office market not only survived Brexit woes and Covid concerns – it positively thrived. But has Labour’s employer NI hike just spelt the end for the high-end office market? Plus: Peel ducks out at MediaCity and co-living picks up pace in Leeds.

FI Real Estate Management has acquired a 30-acre site on Wrexham Industrial Estate from plastics manufacturing giant Mainetti.

A second application has been put forward to Wrexham County Council following an appeal on the basis of non-determination of an identical proposal submitted last year.

A pre-application consultation for the affordable development has begun and will run for 25 days.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner confirmed that the Budget will include funds to enable the delivery of up to 5,000 social homes, with further plans in place to reduce Right to Buy discounts and craft a five-year social housing rent settlement.

The global architecture firm will reimagine the Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney-owned football club’s plans for a 5,500-capacity stand at STōK Cae Ras stadium.

Returning to the housebuilder after a year with civil engineer contractor Eurogold, Tom Grundy has taken on the role of managing director for the region.

Last month’s application to extend the temporary Kop stand’s capacity to 3,200 has been accepted via delegated powers.

HyNet, a network of pipes that will carry captured emissions to be sequestered under Liverpool Bay, is one of two projects that will be funded over the next 25 years.

An application from the housebuilder for the redevelopment of 13 acres off Derwen Lane into a 152-home development has been submitted to Conwy County Council.

UK Export Finance has agreed to underwrite £136m of debt financing for the Turkish company’s revitalisation of the North Wales paper mill, enabling the facility to open next year.

ClwydAlyn Housing Association has submitted an outline application to build up to 159 affordable homes on a brownfield site off Llangollen Road.