Aprirose picks up Haydock shed

The £54m research and innovation centre for the glass industry is to go before St Helens’ planning meeting next week with approval expected.

Former Liverpool footballers Jamie Carragher and Robbie Fowler have agreed to operate the sports facilities at the club’s former training ground, allowing them to be retained for community use under Torus’ plans to redevelop the site into housing. 

Hatfields has acquired the remaining six-acre site within HBD Barnfield’s motorway junction scheme in Huyton.

Heritage conservationists appear to have won the battle to preserve Abbey Cinema on Church Road North after the supermarket giant withdrew plans to demolish the building when it was granted grade two-listed status. 

Wirral Growth Company is to start work on two five-storey office buildings totalling 190,000 sq ft in the summer, after its 15-year regeneration strategy for the Birkenhead town was signed off last night.

The £27m theatre in Prescot is under construction and due for handover to operator Shakespeare North Trust by next spring, under a deal struck by Knowsley Council.  

The developer has won planning consent for a trade counter scheme on Knowsley Industrial Estate in Merseyside.

Two five-storey office buildings totalling 190,000 sq ft form the first part of Wirral Council and Muse Developments’ town centre regeneration scheme, due to be approved by the authority next week. 

The discount supermarket chain is being forced to rethink its plans for a store in Wavertree after Historic England slapped a grade two listing on a building the company planned to demolish.