Start on £73m Tritax Symmetry logistics park due this year

Designs for the latest attempt to overhaul Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens are being worked up, which according to the landscape architect behind the project will bring out the gardens' "unique character". 

Council-led mixed-use schemes, advanced manufacturing and the future of housing will all be discussed at this half-day conference on Thursday 27 February.

Capital & Centric is understood to have exchanged contracts to buy Weir Mill in Stockport from Maryland Securities, and is planning a residential conversion.

The developer has submitted plans for an 18-storey apartment block on Queen Street in Salford, which would bring 115 apartments to the market.

A community bid to save the former Chorlton Picture House has failed after vendor Co-operative Funeralcare rejected a £2.2m offer to buy the site and convert it into a food market, alongside a GP surgery and homes. 

A £15m contract to build The Christie's radiotherapy centre at Macclesfield District Hospital has been awarded to Galliford Try.

A revised planning application for the first phase of Blackpool Airport's Enterprise Zone is to be submitted by the end of this month.

ISG has begun the process of demolishing the former main building at Chester fire station as a £5.5m scheme to redevelop the site reaches its third phase.

Nando's, Superdrug and Heavenly Desserts have taken space at the £80m Rochdale Riverside development.

The joint venture between Harworth and the Lancashire County Pension Fund has let two industrial units totalling 46,000 sq ft at the Multiply Logistics North site in Bolton.