Barons Quay: ‘Build it and they will come’

Two hotels in Cheshire and one in Wigan have been brought to market as part of a wider portfolio sale by Talash Hotels Group.

After confirmation that administrators had been called in at Middlewich-based contractor and developer Pochin’s, Place North West investigates what could have gone wrong for the long-established regional business.

Waste2Tricity has signed an agreement with Peel Environmental for a 54-acre site at the Ellesmere Port energy hub to develop a hydrogen-from-waste facility.

Christine Gaskell, chair of the Cheshire & Warrington LEP, told an event at MIPIM that the region has the potential to create the world’s first zero carbon industry cluster, based around its Energy Innovation District proposition.

Cheshire East Council has opened its six-week consultation on the development around Crewe station that could be brought about by the arrival of HS2.

Cheshire East Council is to move its action plan for the area around Crewe station to the next stage of consultation, which will see plans revealed to the public in February and March.

The South Manchester office market is on course for a record-breaking year, as insurance broker Bollington Wilson’s letting of the 27,400 sq ft Clipper House in Sale added to a raft of fourth quarter deals.

Around 1,500 homes could be built off the A34 with Cheshire East’s strategic planning board asked to approve a detailed masterplan for the Handforth Garden Village project at a meeting next week.

Cheshire East’s cabinet will next week be asked to approve the appointment of contractors for improvements at Macclesfield Leisure Centre and for public realm in the town centre’s Castle Street.