Manchester Zoo lines up 100-acre Rochdale home

Barratt Homes has bought the 27-acre former Wigan Enterprise Park from St Modwen and is due to start on site this summer on 325 homes, a development approved on appeal in 2016. 

Affordable housing developer Salix Homes has submitted an application which proposes a three-storey, 70,000 sq ft extra-care facility for the elderly off Arrow Street.

The relocation of EventCity in Trafford to the nearby Soccer Dome has been approved, allowing the events venue move to a 240,000 sq ft building, and vacate its site to make way for the £175m Therme resort.

Willmott Dixon has been chosen as main contractor to deliver the major redevelopment of the town's bus station, alongside a joint venture between Cityheart and Rise Homes which will bring forward a £40m apartment block.

The housing association and developer have submitted a joint application for a 161-home project across two brownfield sites in Seedley.

The developer has made a spate of hires in recent months, "propelled" by its work in modular delivery, including the appointment of Andrew Johnston from Avison Young as head of planning.

The developer and its partner Manchester City Council have outlined a timeline for the first part of the Northern Gateway scheme, which will contain 330 homes, 130 of them council houses.

The developer has amended its application for an £80m industrial development in Stockport, with intentions to bring forward two of the expected 25 units before the rest of the development in response to "market conditions."

Peel L&P has sold two sites in Partington to housebuilder Countryside and Southway Housing Trust, triggering planning applications which will enable the delivery of 463 homes.