MMU and Unite table £400m PBSA plan

Construction has started at the Cumbrian housebuilder’s first Carlisle project, which will feature 90 homes, 17 designated as affordable.

A £750m joint venture between the real estate fund and Gatehouse Living Group will now be known as ‘Uniqhomes’, recently acquiring more than 400 properties from across Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Shropshire.

Rising to 11 storeys, the 120-apartment project involves the demolition of the Riley’s snooker hall at a gateway site close to the King Street Metrolink stop.

The housebuilder’s 167-home pitch to Preston City Council includes outline plans for a 78-bed care home and the town’s first community centre on the greenfield plot which runs alongside the A6.

Greystar and contractor HG Construction are targeting a 2028 opening for the 37-storey One Medlock Street that will overlook Mancunian Way.

A 390-acre site straddling the north bank of the River Dee and the Welsh border could become home to some 4,400 residents should an illustrative masterplan’s vision be fully realised.

Savills’ treasury and funding advisory team has supported the housing group in agreeing new loans with NatWest, Santander and incoming lender Nationwide.

The £2.5bn Crescent Salford masterplan is one of the country’s largest and most ambitious regeneration schemes. Project partners ECF, Salford City Council, and the University of Salford are hard at work turning the vision into a reality for the benefit of local people.

McDermott Homes, in partnership with Great Places Housing, wants to build the houses on a brownfield site in Griffin, which has lain unused since a 2020 clear-out of the final terraces that had stood on the site.

Harworth Group’s £200m investment in the land at Erlas Park would be completed by 2035, if work starts as scheduled in Q2 2026.

The built environment is a major contributor to global carbon emissions, and refurbishing and retrofitting existing structures is crucial to achieving net zero targets. This roundtable, convened by DeSimone Consulting Engineering, brought together developers, architects, and real estate experts to discuss the pros and cons of breathing new life into a building.

J2 Corporation has agreed to pay a £400,000 in developer contributions to unlock a 50-home project on the banks of the river Irwell.

Phase three of the developer’s Northern Gateway masterplan, a 60-acre residential scheme south of Maw Green Road, is being worked up.

With consultation over and an application submitted, Cheshire East Council will now decide whether the plans to transform the 13-acre ex-Green Belt site on Cumber Lane should proceed.

Rosewood Healthcare Group has pitched a replacement three-storey block with 50 en-suite bedrooms, a ground floor kitchen, a staff room, and amenity areas to the local authority.

Knowsley-based Leedex Construction led the £9.9m build, which will provide affordable rent homes for over 55s in Runcorn.

A proposal from Barratt David Wilson for 477 dwellings in a long-awaited redevelopment of the former Whittingham Hospital is the largest item facing June’s planning committee.

Next week, Rochdale Council’s planning committee will consider proposals outlining the development of more than four acres of brownfield off Bury and Rochdale Old Road into a residential neighbourhood.

St Asaph-based K&C Construction has broken ground at the site and will take on the MMC build, aiming to complete the project by spring 2027.