Retirement Villages picks Boughton Heath for next site

The contractor is carrying out enabling works on the first phase of Cheshire West & Chester Council's £70m mixed-use scheme more than 20 years after redevelopment of the area was first mooted, and hopes to continue despite the virus outbreak.

Cheshire West and Chester Council has agreed to progress plans for Chester City Gateway, a project to regenerate the railway station and surrounding area.

Applications that would bring a total of 1,700 homes to the market are recommended for approval by the council next week.

ISG has begun the process of demolishing the former main building at Chester fire station as a £5.5m scheme to redevelop the site reaches its third phase.

This year will see fresh services launched including a development map to complement news stories and branded content production for partners.

Cheshire West & Chester is set to start work on the long-awaited project in the New Year but has warned its delivery cost has increased by nearly £10m, with funds to be diverted from elsewhere within the council’s budget.

Developer Morbaine has put forward plans for a seven-storey, 244-bed hotel on Hoole Way on a site where a similar proposal for student accommodation was refused consent in 2017.

With the Ice Cream Farm set to open at Northwich's Barons Quay, Place North West spoke to its owner and founder Jonathan Fell about leisure-led retail, and how retail will have to adapt to survive.

The family-run hotelier has acquired two sites in Chester and Ormskirk as it looks to ramp up its presence in the North West.