Plans shown for Great Ducie Street resi

So, you’re in a funky, artfully-lit office, with beer and Prosecco on tap, sofa areas for meeting rooms and Instagram-ready wall murals, writes David Laws, partner at Matthews & Goodman. Why would you want to move?

Colin Sinclair, chief executive of Knowledge Quarter Liverpool, is also to serve as interim chief executive of the newly formed Knowledge Quarter Development Company.

Nine months after its purchase by Canadian giant Avison Young, the former WHR team in Manchester is planning further growth and acquisitions, including the doubling staff numbers in the next three years, according to director Mark Williams.

Buildings of up to 17 storeys in height housing 347,000 sq ft of offices alongside a hotel will form part of the latest expansion of Manchester's First Street, brought forward by developers Ask, Richardson, and Patrizia.

Schroders, working with architect Sheppard Robson, has submitted plans for an events space on the City Tower’s podium, overlooking Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens.

Barclays is set to open a 12,000 sq ft Eagle Lab, a business advice hub for entrepreneurs, within Bruntwood’s Union building on Albert Square.

Create Construction is set to start enabling works next month on a mixed 15, nine, and seven-storey PRS project in Manchester’s New Cross for developer Beech.