Application in for £37m New Cross apartments

Ask Real Estate and Whitbread have unveiled plans to build a 41-storey residential tower and 400,000 sq ft of offices in the First Street development zone in central Manchester.

Developer McCauls has submitted proposals including 89 homes and 8,000 sq ft of workspace at a site including the grade two-listed 32-34 Laystall Street, just off Manchester’s Great Ancoats Street.

Bruntwood Works, the offices arm of the developer and asset manager, has opened what it claims is “Manchester’s most tech-enhanced workspace” as part of its £50m Pioneer refurbishment programme. 

Developer ECS Capital is to build a 40-unit residential scheme in the Manchester suburb, designed by the architecture studio Falconer Chester Hall and approved after the original application was tweaked.

In the second of a four-part series, Hydrock’s engineering team discuss the changing nature of place and communities in the North West. In this instalment, Hydrock’s associate acoustic engineer, Lewis Stonehouse, examines Manchester’s night-time economy.

Developer Beech Holdings is to convert the Victorian warehouse and the neighbouring 11 Bloom Street in Manchester city centre into 80 low carbon apartments.

Manchester’s Exchange Square is being lined up to host an 80-metre-high viewing platform as the city seeks to fill the gap left by the cancellation of its Christmas markets.

Caddick Construction has completed work on the £154m Moda Angel Gardens build-to-rent scheme in Manchester.

The Manchester music venue has appointed contractor City Build to deliver a project designed by OMI Architects to increase its capacity from 350 to 500 people.