Valad in pole position to acquire SimpsonHaugh’s former Manchester base

The Cumbrian authority has recommended its planning committee approve plans for a neighbourhood off Hayclose Road despite an objection from the town council.

With permission for 225 homes secured at appeal in 2024, the landowner now is looking to cash in.

Three years after proposals for 109 apartments off London Road were first lodged by Kirkland Developments, the registered provider has bought the site and refreshed the plans.

While the decision to refuse the pipeline permission to conduct surveys on council-owned land was unanimous, it will likely only serve to delay the delivery of Progressive Energy’s carbon capture scheme.

Planning committee members voted unanimously to remove a barrier standing in the way of Morris Homes delivering hundreds of properties in Cottam.

A little over two years since the city council’s planning committee backed the creation of 2,388 flats in a quintet of glass towers rising to 71 storeys – and with the threat of a legal challenge by a rival developer looming – the authority and the developer have inked a legal agreement, paving the way for the project to come forward.

The residential developer has acquired a plot off Worrall Street in Ordsall that the company is earmarking for redevelopment into 188 flats.

The 45-acre estate of a Denbighshire boarding school, which dates back to 1284, is up for grabs.

Virtue Developments, working with Sovini, wants to deliver a 123 affordable flats on the former Liverpool nightclub and cinema site at the junction of West Derby Road and Green Lane.

Contractor Holmpatrick received the go-ahead for its plans to tear down Britannia New Mill, replacing it with 32 social rent flats and 17 shared ownership houses – due to be managed by Onward Homes.

The Preston contractor is to deliver an £18m project that will provide a new home for Hope School & College.

Front-loaded with retail, industrial to follow – hybrid plans for a bypass-adjacent site next to Formby Industrial Estate are recommended for approval. The redevelopment of Birkdale’s Greenbank School is also set for the green light.

Accelerating the delivery of the 1,350-home Marina Village and bolstering Westmorland and Furness Council’s planning team will be two prime uses of the cash, which comes from the government’s £200m Barrow Transformation Fund.

A 2027 start on site is the aim after a £28.2m contribution from Lancashire Combined County Authority was confirmed for the new railway station, serving communities in one of Preston’s main housing growth areas.

Your Housing Group’s contractor Casey has begun work on a 54-home project off Heysham Road, supported by Homes England.

Taking into account the wider restructuring or insolvency plans, there are a number of strategic decisions to be made to ensure the best course of action is taken to unlock value within tight timescales, write Andy Thompson and Matthew Hattersley at BTG Eddisons.

The city council’s executive will be asked to sign off the compulsory purchase of a single derelict residential property, opening up the development of 212 homes by Mosscare St Vincent’s.

Delegates at Place North West’s sold-out conference heard from the newly elected mayor on how she is targeting a decade of growth, the impact of the new NPPF on development in the city region, and how the pioneering £2bn Good Growth Fund is unlocking development in a constrained market.

Unanimous committee approval has been given for a primary school in Basford East, the strategic site that also includes 850 homes and industrial development.