Hydrogen-from-plastics deal signed at Protos

Christine Gaskell, chair of the Cheshire & Warrington LEP, told an event at MIPIM that the region has the potential to create the world’s first zero carbon industry cluster, based around its Energy Innovation District proposition.

Cheshire East Council has opened its six-week consultation on the development around Crewe station that could be brought about by the arrival of HS2.

Cheshire East Council is to move its action plan for the area around Crewe station to the next stage of consultation, which will see plans revealed to the public in February and March.

The South Manchester office market is on course for a record-breaking year, as insurance broker Bollington Wilson’s letting of the 27,400 sq ft Clipper House in Sale added to a raft of fourth quarter deals.

Around 1,500 homes could be built off the A34 with Cheshire East’s strategic planning board asked to approve a detailed masterplan for the Handforth Garden Village project at a meeting next week.

Cheshire East’s cabinet will next week be asked to approve the appointment of contractors for improvements at Macclesfield Leisure Centre and for public realm in the town centre’s Castle Street.

Agents in the city expect annual office take-up in the central area to hit 1.5m sq ft for the first time on record, after the third quarter of 2018 saw 480,000 sq ft change hands.

Cheshire business The Tatton Group has made three appointments from Reaseheath College as it completes a move into new offices in Ashley.

Cheshire East is set to launch a consultation on the proposed 1,500-home project off the A34 near Handforth, one of 14 Garden Villages named by the Government in January last year.