Working back to health

Allied London is preparing to start on site in spring 2008 with the next speculative office building at Spinningfields in central Manchester.

The North West Development Agency is to give £9.2m towards improving the area around Liverpool Football Club’s proposed New Anfield stadium.

St Modwen Properties has appointed GVA Grimley and Hitchcock Wright & Partners as retail agents on its Great Homer Street development in Liverpool.

Planning approval has been given to two further phases of Town Centre Securities’ £250m Piccadilly Basin in Manchester.

Liverpool property firm LAGP has revealed the first images of its Kings Dock Mill scheme in Liverpool’s L1 district.

Anglo Irish Bank has appointed another manager to its senior team in Liverpool in response to its growing exposure to the Merseyside property market.

Elisabeth House is not for sale and will be developed by owner Greater Manchester Property Venture Fund, according to the fund’s advisor GVA Grimley.

Janet Reeder hears Jim Lowther’s plans for the family pile

UK Land & Property and Pochin have completed two further lettings totalling more than 11,000 sq ft at Horton House, Exchange Flags in Liverpool.

Ideas developed for East Lancashire by Tony Wilson and his partner Yvette Livesey have been implemented with the launch of a new brand for the area.

Liverpool Land Development Company, the agency tasked with the regeneration of four routes into the city, has strengthened its management team.

Developer Charles Topham Group has started work on its 130,000 sq ft Axis Park development in Darwen, Blackburn.

Manchester has overtaken Birmingham in the 2007 UK Cities Monitor, the annual survey undertaken by property adviser Cushman & Wakefield.

The Government Office for the North West is close to taking 26,000 sq ft on two floors of Argent’s Three Piccadilly Place in Manchester city centre.

Planning consent has been given for developer Time and Tide’s 35-storey Gravity tower in Manchester, designed by Austin-Smith:Lord.

Manchester-based developer Modus Properties has hired Grant Thornton and Eversheds to prepare for the launch of a £2bn Real Estate Investment Trust.

Bolton Council has selected developer Rushbond to restore Little Bolton Town Hall in the Little Bolton regeneration area.

The sale of the leisure complex the Printworks in Manchester has been halted by BA Pension Fund and Pearl Group after a buyer failed to emerge.

Regeneration agency Cumbria Vision has appointed Roger Liddle, principal adviser to the President of the European Commission, as its new chairman.