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The future of offices and a look at developments in Greater Manchester and Liverpool are among the topics under scrutiny at Place conferences in September.

In the second of the three-part series, Place North West takes a look at what has been happening in and around central Liverpool during the past four months.

The proposed £70m Southport Theatre, the Shakespeare North Playhouse in Knowsley, a £60m packaging centre for Unilever in Wirral and a £600m hydrogen production programme in Halton are among schemes included in the Liverpool City Region’s latest funding bid to Whitehall.  

Liverpool contractor Crossfield Construction has begun work on a £2.6m project at the Preston college, to create dedicated space for students on the newly introduced technical-based courses.

VU.CITY, the fully interactive 3D smart city platform, which now covers 124 sq km of Manchester and Salford and has launched digital twins of Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and 15 other cities, is currently offering a free trial on any of their cities.

The body responsible for the city’s innovation district has launched a strategic vision to guide its direction and expansion over the next five years.

The search for a contractor to remediate faulty cladding at the hospital has been called off in favour of handing the job to the original manufacturer, Martifer. 

Overbury and CBRE have started the fit-out of the Royal College of Physicians' northern headquarters within a 160,000 sq ft office under construction in Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter.