Everton Library makes list of ‘most endangered’ Victorian buildings

The RHS has launched a fundraising drive for the final £4.8m required to allow RHS Garden Bridgewater to open next summer, making the appeal as it announced the creation of a Mother Orchard for the North West in the Salford garden.

Manchester Airports Group has started the search for a professional team to work across its property portfolio, including architects, cost consultants, surveyors, and engineers.

The consultant, working with Aecom, will draw up a plan to bring pollution from cars and road traffic in the region down to legal levels in the next five years, including potential clean air charges for “the most polluting” vehicles.

This one-off event puts the leaders shaping Manchester on the same stage for the very first time, to answer the tough questions about the past, present, and future of the city. 

Hall & Co Property has secured planning permission for the redevelopment of Stockport’s grade two-listed Bank Chambers, which it is to convert into a co-working space branded as ProFolk.

Cities and towns face huge challenges, delivering more housing and improved infrastructure, greater levels of inward investment, and tackling ever more urgent social and environmental issues – not least climate change, writes John Alker of the UK Green Building Council.

A £2.6m cycling and walking improvement package for a route between Urmston and Sale Water Park will go before Trafford Council’s executive with a recommendation for approval.