Keepmoat kicks off Farington Mews phase two

Tall buildings in cities like Liverpool can play an important role in delivering much-needed new homes without taking up much land. However, to be successful, they must be developed in a way that considers existing neighbours, according to participants at a roundtable discussion hosted by DeSimone.

Work is due to start imminently on demolishing the University of Liverpool’s vacant Carnatic Halls, with the housebuilder lined up to deliver 65 apartments and 78 houses on the Mossley Road site.

Fresh from receiving Gateway 2 approval, main contractor GMI Construction Group has commenced building Alumno and Invesco Real Estate’s 261-bed residential block off Moss Lane East.

West Tree Estates has relinquished long-vacant properties on two streets in the Granby area of Toxteth, paving the way for the city council to redevelop the area.

Rethinking Muse and the council’s £120m City Place ambitions for the railway station-adjacent site, the affordable housing partnership will look to build a series of contemporary apartment blocks.

A strategic partnership is due to be signed between the local authority and the community benefit society next week, with a first phase lined up to deliver up to 400 residences.

The affordable housing partnership, comprising Muse, Homes England, and Pension Insurance Corporation, has outlined its plans to bring forward its first batch of apartments in the North West.

The public and private sectors converged on Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on 23 October to dig into how we deliver the right homes in the right places in the right way.

Peel Waters’ managing director has pitched his ‘Whisk’ model to senior special advisors in No.10, seeking to find a long-term solution to meet rising demand for affordable housing at minimal cost to the public.

Edwards Homes has submitted proposals to build 75 homes on the vacant plot off Fletcher Street in Warrington, subject to the local authority’s approval.

A 16.5-acre site on the western edge of the Cheshire village is being eyed up by the housebuilder for redevelopment into 160 dwellings.

Preston City Council will decide whether to grant the volume housebuilder consent to bring forward the fourth and final phase of the development known as The Paddocks.

The dilapidated and vacant building off Salford’s Broughton Road will get a refresh and host 88 flats under ForHousing and Vistry Group’s plans.

The developer has submitted proposals for 263 homes on the site of the recently demolished Sterling Prize-winning university building.

Funding is “one of the most critical issues” facing the programme, according to the latest report out of the House of Lords – a report that also advises the government to create a new agency to oversee new town delivery.

The housebuilder, an arm of Peel Group, secured the asset from Russell LDP and is expected to follow up with a reserved matters application for housing on the site in the coming weeks.

The housebuilder’s 195-home rent-to-buy scheme that sits in the shadow of Everton FC’s £750m Hill Dickinson stadium has been rounded off by Eric Wright Construction.

Situated across the road from the Ofsted Outstanding Kelsall Community Primary School, the 17-acre site would hold a tenure-blind neighbourhood filled with a variety of residences, from five-bed detached houses to one-bed apartments.

Partners ION Developments, Picture This, and Wirral Council have renamed the 1,500-neighbourhood to reflect the site’s heritage as a former railway sidings and gasworks.