Trust proposes Leighton hospital replacement

Grant Thornton and BDO have had permission from the High Court to extend the period in which to realise the assets from the collapsed family-owned contractor.

The contractor has been appointed to build the £26m cancer centre at Macclesfield District Hospital, after Galliford Try completed demolition work on site. 

Administrators at KPMG have been formally appointed to Cruden Group, Cruden Construction and Cruden Property Services, after Place North West revealed that the Warrington-based firm was on the brink of collapse. 

The developer – a joint venture between Peel Logistics Property, asset manager Mira Real Estate and Canadian investor Ivanhoé Cambridge – has begun construction of two speculative logistics warehouses at a site in Cheshire.   

Housebuilders Barratt and David Wilson Homes, with housing association Torus, are to deliver a recently approved scheme to redevelop part of the school's estate on Fence Avenue in Macclesfield, ahead of its move to a £60m campus in Prestbury. 

The care home developer has terminated the pre-construction agreement it signed with the ailing contractor and begun the search for another company to build the scheme, as Cheshire-based Cruden braces itself for administration. 

The Cheshire-based construction firm, part of Cruden Group, is understood to have signed a notice to appoint administrators, with KPMG set to be formally brought in within the next 10 days. 

The grade two-listed former silk mill on Park Lane, which was most recently used as offices, has been converted into 10 apartments. 

The council is looking to appoint up to eight housebuilders to a framework aimed at boosting affordable housing provision amid rising numbers of social housing applicants.