Cheadle bags £500,000 Towns Fund boost

The property company has secured the backing of Transport for Greater Manchester in a city-wide initiative aimed at supporting safe returns to the workplace.

Hear from Ellandi, Savills, Kampus, CWAC and others as they debate the future of town centres at this special interactive Place North West event with networking, panels and presentations next week.

The Build Back Better campaign presents an opportunity to challenge the status quo, writes Tom Jonson of LUC.

The 46,200 sq ft facility off Green Lane will provide a standby supply of gas-powered electricity to the National Grid to prevent blackouts. 

When Chris Findley, who retired this week after almost three decades as council head of planning, arrived in post, Salford was “still recovering from the huge economic shocks of the '70s and '80s”. But developments such as Salford Quays and MediaCityUK ensure he leaves the city in a better state than he found it. 

The transport planning, placemaking and engineering consultancy has opened an office at 3 Piccadilly Place and appointed Chris Sibthorpe as its director. 

Around 6,000 solar photovoltaic panels are to be installed on a nine-acre site off Kenyon Way in Little Hulton, as the council takes its latest step towards meeting Greater Manchester’s 2038 carbon-neutral deadline. 

Metro mayors Steve Rotheram and Andy Burnham called for widespread retrofitting of properties across the North West, as the region looks to capture positive lessons from the pandemic and create a springboard for change.