Airport video launched as redevelopment begins

Delivery management business Whistl has started operating from Harworth Group’s Logistics North near Bolton.

Sir Robert McAlpine is to start construction in September on a 375-home scheme bounded by Trinity Way and Chapel Street in Salford after amended plans were approved yesterday.

Construction has started on Sigma Capital’s latest build-to-rent scheme, where 73 houses will be delivered on the site of the former Our Lady’s Primary School in Little Hulton, Salford.

Hodder + Partners has appointed three new team members from the Manchester School of Architecture to support the ongoing growth of the practice.

The University of Central Lancashire has released a CGI flythrough video of how its £200m investment into its Preston campus will look on completion.

The property adviser has agreed a deal with US online platform VTS which will see agents, initially in the Central London leasing and asset management teams, manage deal activity, identify trends and quantify portfolio performance.

Private equity company NorthEdge Capital has agreed to take 5,500 sq ft within Allied London’s No1 Spinningfields, moving from Vantage Point which sits opposite.

A Speke site formerly occupied by Chemie Pelzer, which supplies components to the automotive industry, is the stand-out item on the agenda for Liverpool City Council’s planning committee, which meets on 25 July.

Pharmaceuticals giant GSK has shelved plans to build a £350m drugs manufacturing facility at its base in Ulverston, Cumbria, as well as warning investors that it may be ready to sell on the site as part of its disposal of a whole arm of the business.

Altrincham-based building envelope specialist FK Group has hired Phil Norris as financial director, from steel fabrication company William Hare Group.