Ironworks residential set for 2019 completion

Copeland Borough Council has launched a survey to help it assess the success of the five-year Whitehaven Townscape Heritage Initiative, which reaches its end in December. 

Greater Manchester and Cumbria have been chosen as two of four national “green pioneers” as part of the Government’s 25-year environmental strategy, outlined by the Prime Minister and environment secretary Michael Gove this week.

OneAIM, a joint venture between Amec Foster Wheeler and Interserve, has won a key framework contract to support reprocessing plants and facilities at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria.

Frank Whittle Partnership has been appointed as project manager and quantity surveyor on a £3.4m restoration and extension programme at Carlisle Cathedral’s Fratry Building.

A planning application has been submitted for Woodhouse Colliery, a coal mine at the Marchon Works site close to Whitehaven, Cumbria.

Sellafield, the organisation responsible for decommissioning the former Windscale and Calder Hall nuclear sites in Cumbria, is to hold a bidders day on 28 April as it seeks to appoint four construction partners to deliver key projects over the next 20 years.

Britain’s Energy Coast in west Cumbria has appointed two new members of its leadership team, head of property and development Rob Miller, and head of estates Bill Graham.

How to maximise development and construction opportunities arising from energy projects across the North will be the focus of this sector briefing in Cumbria, organised by Place North West in association with Curtins and Furness Economic Development Forum.

A tenanted 14,500 sq ft Victorian office building in city centre Manchester, a Lancashire hotel with planning consent for new homes and a Cumbrian care home are among over 150 lots up for sale in Pugh’s next Manchester property auction, which is expected to generate in excess of £15m.