Associate/Associate Director – Façade Consultancy

The retailer wants to increase the size of its Weybrook Road store, which has been in operation for 15 years.

Amstone Ventures has appointed the Kent-based outfit to build the 588-scheme on the former Sainsbury’s site off Warren Street.

For more than a decade, Stockport and its partners have been changing the face of our town and borough. Through the UK’s largest town centre regeneration programme, we are still creating new opportunities for our residents through new homes and jobs, new places to work and play, and a renewed sense of pride in our place, writes Paul Richards of Stockport Council.

Almost 20 years since Ask put forward plans to redevelop the derelict Stockport 19th-century complex, a group of local business owners is working proposals for a mixed-use scheme on the site.

Contractor Willmott Dixon has applied for permission to construct a 106,000 sq ft education building to serve the affluent Stockport suburb that will replace the Seal Road school’s current sprawling, RAAC-riddled estate.

The saga of Harrow Estates’ outline plans for 540 homes continues, with the council looking to take the Planning Inspectorate’s decision to approve the project to the High Court.

Around 250 homes could be built at Hyde Bank Meadows, under proposals being worked up by the housebuilder.

Matthew Pickford has joined Daniel Madden as company director at the Stockport-based decarbonising and building services design specialist and will drive the consultancy’s future alongside Saeed Amirahmadi, Adrian Bill, Ben Rathbone, Mike Robinson, and Ged Williams.

An application is being readied for affordable homes on 23 acres off Gravel Bank Road, the latest in a long line of Green Belt housing schemes piling up in Stockport.

Following an application for 176 homes off Jacksons Lane in January, the housebuilder’s strategic land arm has lodged a 134-home project with Stockport Council.

The digital insurance provider has opened an 11,000 sq ft office, twice the size of its previous space at The Royals.

Plans for 37 homes on part of the Demmings Road industrial estate will proceed to Stockport’s main planning committee after receiving a thumbs-up at area level.

Having secured the 44-acre disused course in March, the housebuilder has wasted no time in seeking a reserved matters consent for 244 homes, 50% of them affordable.

An integral part of the council’s resi-led regeneration agenda, the through school could accommodate around 1,500 primary and secondary pupils on an as yet unnamed town centre site.

Senior figures from politics, local government and regeneration have lined up to pay tribute to “an exemplary public servant” following the passing of the former chief executive of Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

More than 30 sixth-forms across the region are set to benefit from more than £300m of government funding aimed at restoring run-down further education facilities.

Pharma business Seda, which has just secured a £15m investment from the Business Growth Fund, has bought its 40,000 sq ft base in a deal reflecting a net initial yield of 8.75%.

Network Rail has invested £20m in the critical year-long infrastructure project, a four-way roundabout joining central Stockport to Edgeley by road over the mainline railway.

Earmarked as a priority over the next five years, the area around Newbridge Lane dissected by the River Goyt is to be reinvented as a “family-friendly neighbourhood”.