Industry awaits GMSF with bated breath

Trafford Council is looking to complete a Community Asset Transfer that will see the George H Carnall leisure centre taken on by a Community Interest Company in January 2021.

Property and hospitality businesses in the city-region expressed a mix of anger, frustration, fear and dismay after mayor Andy Burnham’s attempts to secure more funding to accompany tougher Covid-19 restrictions crumbled on Tuesday.

Tom Stannard, Wakefield Council’s director of regeneration, will join Salford City Council next February to replace outgoing chief executive Jim Taylor.  

The council is to launch an agile working pilot as part of a longer term strategy to consolidate its estate that could include the sale of some of its buildings. 

Former Manchester City Council chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein has been appointed as chair of the Bury Council-led board heading up the town's regeneration. 

Councillors are calling for clarity on the future of the grade two-listed building as plans are drawn up to create a community hub in the town centre that could see the library services relocated. 

Covid-19, while a challenge, should be viewed as an opportunity to shape the future of the 10 Greater Manchester boroughs and drive meaningful development, public and private sector experts told a Place North West event. 

The council may back out of work to prepare the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework over concerns that the Government's forthcoming planning reforms would render any framework out of date soon after adoption. 

Salford City Council has slammed the Government’s planning white paper, saying the proposed reforms “remove citizens’ rights to influence individual developments”, in a motion put forward by the city mayor Paul Dennett.