AG launches sustainability service

The developer is to restart work on the overhaul of three historic buildings as part of the area’s revamp as a visitor destination.

Pilar Medrano-Dell has joined the company as head of regenerative horticulture and planting, a newly created role that aims to bolster the practice’s ability to create resilient environments. 

Seeking greater international recognition of the historic village, Port Sunlight Village Trust is teaming up with Wirral Council, National Museums Liverpool and Unilever to apply for the Unesco award.

More than 3,000 plants will soon cover the grade two-listed bridge, which the National Trust says will open for guided tours at the end of July.

Those in the construction industry have been working behind the scenes to prepare for changes to the Building Regulations Approved Document Part L, which take effect from today in England and from November in Wales, writes Stuart Andrew of Castle Green Homes.

Scientists at Energy House 2.0 will lead experiments on how to reach the UK’s target of net zero carbon emissions in homes.

Companies are having to review their sustainability initiatives and pay closer attention to their ESG criteria to meet mounting pressure to reduce their carbon footprint, writes Paul Crighton of TLT.

The 11 industrial units at Stanley Green Trading Estate in Cheadle Hulme will be built to BREAAM Excellent standard, designed to achieve an EPC A+ rating, and will be net zero carbon in operation.

If the Awel y Môr project is approved by the UK Planning Inspectorate, up to 50 wind turbine generators would operate on nearly 20,000 acres of the seabed off the coast of North Wales.

Manchester City Council has added £1m to the £4.9m secured through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme as it seeks to cut emissions at seven buildings, including the Central Park office building.

Salboy has amended plans for the commercial phase of its £300m mixed-use Manchester scheme.

“If the UK continues to drag its feet on embodied carbon, it will not meet net zero or its carbon budgets,” warned the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee.

The past 50 years have seen patterns of development that lock us into unsustainable levels of carbon emissions, write Nick James and Pete Baker of LUC.

Lee Fraine has been recruited from Hoare Lea to head the new division, which will provide clients with mechanical, electrical and public health design, asset engineering, and sustainable engineering services.

The developer claims Ev0, an 82,000 sq ft timber-framed building at Didsbury Technology Park, will be one of the most sustainable workspaces in the UK.

The programme will allow surveys to be carried out as Wirral Council lines up a 2023 start for the flagship project, billed as “Birkenhead’s High Line”.

A masterplan for the venue’s overhaul as an arts, culture and heritage destination of national significance is being consulted on as funding bids are prepared.

Housebuilder Anwyl Homes Lancashire had sought to build 233 homes at Widnes Golf Club, in a plan that would have reduced the venue to a nine-hole course.

A swathe of land at Snipe Clough is to be transformed into what is billed as the largest urban farm and eco-park in the UK, under plans that will benefit from a slice of Oldham’s £25m Town Deal award.