Details emerge of Galleries overhaul 

Eamar Developments, the Saudi Arabian owner of Stockport’s distinctive Pyramid office building, is to be granted consent for an 18-storey, 98-home scheme on a different site between Piccadilly and Fletcher Street. 

The developer has struck a deal with Bolton Council to redevelop the former market precinct in Farnworth town centre, which the council purchased from regeneration specialist St Modwen last year.

The remaining nine Greater Manchester boroughs on Friday pledged to draw up a revised strategy for the beleaguered spatial framework after Stockport opted not to be a part of it.

Bruntwood Works has started the next phase of its redevelopment of Trafford House, its 134,000 sq ft office building on Chester Road, Old Trafford. 

Greater Manchester leaders are to meet tomorrow to discuss proposals to create a spatial framework for just nine local authority areas instead of 10, after Stockport rejected the plans last week. 

Fortis Group had planned to repurpose two former office blocks into apartments at Salford Quays, but due to viability concerns now wants to demolish the buildings and construct two towers comprising 336 flats. 

Two national brands have agreed pre-lets for retail space, while the Ritz car park and former Greenhale House residential plots have buyers standing by, according to a council report.

Create Developments has submitted its revised planning application for a seven-storey, 147-bedroom hotel off Barton Road in Stretford, after a council refusal in September forced it back to the drawing board.

Belfast-based developer McKinney Group is hatching plans to build the region’s first inland surfing lagoon and other adventure facilities on land owned by Peel L&P.