Stockport in line for walk-ride upgrade this year

Lime, the company behind an electric scooter trial launching in Salford next week, said that lessons had been learned after the failure of Manchester’s MoBike scheme in 2018.

A project to restore the grade one-listed building on The Esplanade will start in January after the council secured £8.3m from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Construction of a nine-acre solar farm on Kenyon Way and a hydroelectric plant at Charlestown Weir is scheduled to start next summer after the council signed a partnership to access funding for the schemes.

Four vacant buildings in one of the town’s most historic streets would be transformed into co-working and retail units with flats above, under plans drawn up by developer Hall & Co.

The Cheadle Towns Fund Board has secured the funding from the accelerated projects scheme within Government's Town Fund, triggering a series of improvements to be completed by March 2021.

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.