Contractor race starts on £17m Blackpool hotel

Goodwin Construction Group has been selected to deliver The Metalworks, a 319-home development in Liverpool’s Leeds Street that has been planned for more than two years.

The winners of the 13th annual North West Regional Construction Awards were announced on Friday in Liverpool.

P4 Planning has submitted a full planning application for 50,500 sq ft of industrial warehouse accommodation at Appleton Thorn Industrial Estate in Warrington.

The demolition of the Churchill Way flyovers in Liverpool could be completed by the end of the year, at a cost of £6.75m, with a masterplan to be created to guide the future of the available land. 

Vital Energi has started on site with the £20m Civic Quarter Heat Network in Manchester city centre, to supply buildings such as the Town Hall Extension, Art Gallery and Central Library with low-carbon energy.

The University of Manchester is set to bring forward a health technology research hub, with plans in place to refurbish and extend an existing building on its campus, as well as taking space in MSP’s CityLabs development.

The agent’s latest report highlights ongoing challenges around the viability of delivering build-to-rent projects in Liverpool but argues the city should remain “extremely confident” in its future pipeline, which is approaching 4,000 BTR apartments.

Wrexham Glyndŵr University has put a seven-acre site at its Plas Coch campus up for sale with planning permission for up to 401 apartments as it progresses a wider overhaul of its campus.

Following a public consultation earlier this year, Bolton Council has signed off the town centre’s masterplan which will potentially see £27m invested in development, refurbishment, and public realm.