Change of leader in Stockport as Lib Dems take over 

New Ireland Assurance has offloaded the 104,000 sq ft 58 Mosley Street. 

In honour of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, eight towns have been granted city status – a record number.

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is to meet next week to approve a loan to support Bruntwood SciTech’s 125,000 sq ft Manchester laboratory project. 

Lee Fraine has been recruited from Hoare Lea to head the new division, which will provide clients with mechanical, electrical and public health design, asset engineering, and sustainable engineering services.

The housing association plans to redevelop the 47-acre former Jacksons Brickworks in Newton Heath in two phases. 

Around 9,000 mid-rise buildings in the UK require remediation work worth up to £5.3bn to “alleviate life-safety fire risk”, according to a pilot study by the government department. 

The Royal Hotel located off Nantwich Road has been purchased by a subsidiary of the hotel management company, which also owns the Trafford Hall Hotel and Broadfield Park Hotel Rochdale.

Mulbury won consent for a 237-apartment scheme on the Rochdale Road plot earlier this year but it will be McGoff bringing the project forward. 

The developer claims Ev0, an 82,000 sq ft timber-framed building at Didsbury Technology Park, will be one of the most sustainable workspaces in the UK.

David M Robinson has reopened at the Liverpool shopping destination, with a new extended 5,478 sq ft site off South John Street.

Rebecca Caines has joined the planning and development consultancy from developer Knight Dragon.

Peterloo Estates’ plans to transform a former rail maintenance yard into a neighbourhood of bungalows, terraced, semi-detached and detached housing has been given the go-ahead.

A 56-acre site west of Hale Gate Road could be transformed into a residential-led scheme, under proposals put forward by the developer. 

Stockport’s Mayoral Development Corporation is picking up speed, but can it maintain such momentum? Meanwhile, there’s potential good news for Intu creditors on the horizon.

Plans are being readied for a 26-storey residential scheme on the former Vauxhall garage off Albert Street, a site previously being brought forward by Cheshire Estates, which is in the process of being liquidated. 

Melburg is looking to sell its nearly 300,000 sq ft Swan Lane Industrial Estate in a deal that could reflect a net initial yield of 6.95%.

The council has begun clearing part of the half-finished Foxhall Village site off Central Drive in preparation for its redevelopment into a sports village. 

The redevelopment of Huyton town centre and projects in Prescot and Halewood feature within a hat-trick of proposals worth up to £60m that the council is planning to submit to government. 

Having acquired a site in the Pumpfields area of the city and started work on phase one earlier this year, the developer is planning to begin construction of the 69-apartment second phase in June.