Capital&Centric calls time on Kamani JVs

The addition of an external staircase will allow the events venue to increase the maximum number of people it can accommodate at one time from 5,000 to 7,000.

Salford City Council has approved plans for the development of 53 acres south of Leigh Road next to the horticultural destination.

The housebuilder has lodged plans to build a mix of apartments, terraced, semi-detached, and detached houses on a 6.5-acre plot in the Cheshire village.

Westmorland Farmshop & Co, the business behind Tebay Services and Gloucester Services, has secured an eight-figure funding package from the bank to support the development between Junction 7 and 8 of the M56 in Cheshire.

Also on the receiving end of a green light from Flintshire County Council: Castle Green’s second try at an affordable housing development at Quarry Farm and a padel complex in Buckley.

As well as the Industrial Solutions Hub being advanced by Cumberland Council, yesterday’s planning committee approved updated outline plans for up to 480 homes at Newhouse Farm, Carlisle.

Both local authorities are looking to accelerate delivery of social housing, with members asked to approve next steps for a number of brownfield sites in each council area.

Developer Russell LDP has increased the number of homes it plans to build on 75 acres off Chester Road in Woodford, now that the site has been allocated for housing in the council’s draft local plan.

The first policy speech by Prime Minister-in-waiting, Andy Burnham, coincided with the release of the latest Sentiment Survey undertaken by the House Builders Federation in collaboration with Quantum Development Finance, writes Richard Hemmings of Quantum Development Finance.

A 34-acre site west of Hart Common Golf Course is the subject of plans for hundreds of residences.

The third of three applications for a combined 460 homes across the borough is now with Warrington’s planning team for consideration.

The Planning Inspectorate has found in favour of the housebuilder and overturned the council’s decision to reject plans for the development of 47 acres off The Hill.

The path is clear for Victory House and Caledonian Mill, off Carlisle’s Victoria Viaduct, to be repurposed into a 95-strong managed student living offer – a project previously waylaid by nutrient neutrality requirements.

The council has recommended that councillors approve plans from Taylor Wimpey and Jones Homes for 168 properties on safeguarded land despite the project conflicting with local planning policies.

Abandoning plans for the former Barclays Bank Building on Market Square, the council has chosen to repurpose Levelling Up Funds to transforming the grade two-listed building into a community and events hub instead.

A local activist group that opposes plans for a housing development on 10 acres in Chorlton are asking the city council why a decision on its protest application to retain the land as a community woodland has not been determined yet.

Newly created Future Works Infrastructure has said it could deliver a 14-mile dual-carriageway tunnel beneath the Peak District to connect the two major Northern cities for a fraction of what government had priced a similar scheme.

Cheshire West and Chester Council wants more control over what kind of development comes forward at Chester Business Park, Sealand Industrial Estate, and Gadbrook Park.

Caddick Construction has been appointed principal contractor for the latest addition to Satellite Park: two warehouses totalling 282,600 sq ft off the M60 near Middleton.