The city council has included more than 60 priority projects in a huge pitch for Government funding, with council leader Sir Richard Leese calling on Whitehall to increase the budget that Boris Johnson set last week.
The final phase of the university's 14,500 sq ft leisure complex has finished, a multi-sports centre for students and the local community.
When Chris Findley, who retired this week after almost three decades as council head of planning, arrived in post, Salford was “still recovering from the huge economic shocks of the '70s and '80s”. But developments such as Salford Quays and MediaCityUK ensure he leaves the city in a better state than he found it.
Ian Pollitt, a long-standing employee of the Peel Group who has held project management roles at Mersey Docks and Liverpool Waters, has left the company and is pursuing other opportunities.
The pharmaceutical giant has won approval to build a manufacturing facility off Hulley Road at its Hurdsfield complex in Macclesfield, subject to resolving concerns over possible site contamination.
The developers are planning a staircase, lift and landscaping for the Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop, as part of their £300m residential and office scheme in central Manchester.
Manchester City Council has lodged an application to knock down the freestanding part of Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s much-maligned concrete wall, after ringfencing £1.8m for the wider gardens revamp in March.
Outline plans for 83 homes and a marina south of Saxons Lane are expected to be approved next week.
Law firm Trowers & Hamlins has promoted four members of its Manchester real estate team to partner level.
The council wants to appoint a development partner to build a two-storey respite care centre and café on the site of a former isolation hospital off Dinerth Road in Rhos-on-Sea.
Logistics developer Tritax Symmetry, part of Tritax Big Box Reit, has entered into an agreement with the Land Trust to bring forward an employment site and country park at the former Cronton Colliery east of Junction 6 of the M62.
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