Port Salford wrapped up in Liverpool’s freeport bid

Nine Greater Manchester local authorities are preparing to form a committee to progress the alternative Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, dubbed Places for Everyone. 

The Rochdale college has begun the search for a contractor to build a 15,000 sq ft extension to its Middleton Campus technology centre, to provide space to teach T-level technical qualifications.

Southway Housing Trust has bought part of the car park next to the community centre to build 29 affordable apartments in a deal that will see the building retained and allow the club to pay off its debts.

A 113,000 sq ft office block, the fifth to come forward under English Cities Fund’s central Salford masterplan, and RJR Securities’ 16-storey hotel have been granted planning approval by Salford City Council. 

The 46,000 sq ft school, to be constructed on 16 acres of Green Belt south of Freshfield Avenue, would provide a new home for Kings Leadership Academy and allow the school to increase its capacity to 900 students from 540.   

A scheme to convert the former Argos unit in Mersey Square into a cultural and social hub is likely to go ahead despite ongoing concerns over the future of the town’s Central Library. 

Developer Far East Consortium has been given the green light to start a package of enabling works to prepare three plots for the construction of 240 homes as part of the Northern Gateway masterplan.

The developer will this week submit plans for the £12m redevelopment of Glasshouse Business Park in Wigan.

A decision to refuse permission to Redrow for a 400-home scheme on Warburton Lane in Partington has been upheld on appeal and Trafford Council said it would continue to do what it can to stop people from being priced out of the borough.