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Manchester City Council’s planning committee voted unanimously to refuse plans to demolish three grade two-listed buildings that would have unlocked the Northern Quarter site for a residential scheme known as Warp & Weft. 

The last sections of the 40m Tower of Light have been installed, as Manchester City Council and its partners close in on completion of the most visual part of its Civic Quarter Heat Network project.  

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.

The council aims to update the Our Manchester Strategy, launched in 2016 as a blueprint for creating a healthy and prosperous global city by 2025.

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

Manchester City Council, with the University of Manchester and affordable housing provider the Guinness Partnership, have created a community park aimed at helping to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Join Planit and Civic Engineers to debate the opportunity the pandemic presents for changing the way our neighbourhoods, towns and cities are configured and our streets and public realm designed.

Manchester City Council has lodged an application to knock down the freestanding part of Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s much-maligned concrete wall, after ringfencing £1.8m for the wider gardens revamp in March. 

The square at the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter is to be designated as a temporary pedestrian and cycle-only zone from Friday 3 July.