Construction starts on Wigan’s Hampton by Hilton

Flipping its position on the project, the council has opted to refuse Rochdale Boroughwide Housing’s application to knock down six unsafe apartment blocks.

VINCI is leading the construction of the refreshed and expanded town centre bus station on behalf of St Helens Council and ECF, the joint venture between Homes England, L&G, and Muse.

Hear from the leaders of Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral councils about the projects shaping the future of their places, as well as some of the region’s private sector heavyweights on their skyline altering proposals.

Plans for the Northern Gateway’s 13m sq ft of employment space have been lodged, VINCI has begun to lay foundations for Bury Market’s £33m reset, and an overhaul of Prestwich town centre is taking shape.

The Building Safety Regulator signed off designs for the 737-bed student scheme on Upper Brook Street in 27 weeks – a sign that the process is speeding up.

While the rhetoric and promises from government have the built environment feeling optimistic, the consensus at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool was that it was time to turn talk of building homes and infrastructure into reality.

The Derby and Hartley buildings had been in line for redevelopment for use by the University of Liverpool’s school of environmental sciences but their future is now up in the air.

Willmott Dixon began work at the £35m D’Urton Grange project in 2020 and has now delivered a range of two-, three-, and four-bedroom homes to Fulwood.

Making good on its promise of a £9.4bn investment in carbon capture technology from the Spending Review, the government has made a final investment decision on a Flintshire facility that could create carbon-free, net zero cement as well as an Ellesmere Port waste-to-energy plant.

The council is in talks with three firms about bringing forward the flagship Southport scheme after inflation pushed costs beyond the £73m budget.

Plans lodged in May by Watson Homes for 418 town centre properties, a 130-key hotel, and 14,500 sq ft of commercial space are expected to be approved by the local authority next week.

A positive solutions-focused approach to navigating the gateways under the Building Safety Act was the theme running through Project Four’s interactive event for more than 250 property and construction people.

Fans of the football team, which is owned by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, could be cheering from an all-new 7,750-capacity stand during the 2026/27 season now that a pre-construction services agreement has been signed.

Conlon Construction is in the early stages of giving Peine Square a makeover, the first phase of a project to breathe new life into the town.

Royal London Asset Management Property and Winvic Construction have officially commenced construction on the 420,000 sq ft Bootle industrial scheme, which is set to complete next summer.

Main contractor Eric Wright has commenced conducting surveys and drilling trial holes to ready the historic marketplace for a £30m revamp.

The Bolton-based group’s construction arm saw the largest increase in profit before tax, going from £200,000 in 2023 to £2.3m in 2024.

Two years since the developer took over the stalled Talbot Road site from Investar, work on phase one of the £34m project has concluded.

Cumberland Council’s executive committee has confirmed the cash to Story Contracting, which is set to transform RSPB Hodbarrow Reserve and a former seaside rail line into a four-mile walking and cycle route, as well as create a visitor hub.