Renaker hires Sidlow from Allied London

Bam and Bowmer & Kirkland have been shortlisted for the Hawkins\Brown-designed building in Preston, set to provide 78,500 sq ft of education and amenity space.

The council is set to give planning permission to the North West Crewe roads package, designed to unlock land to support the construction of 1,350 homes to the north of the town.

Cumbria County Council has backed plans for a £175m metallurgical coal mine on a brownfield site near Whitehaven with work set to get under way by the end of the year.

Working in partnership with Burnley Council and Barnfield Construction, the university is set to win planning consent for a student accommodation scheme on the site of the Neptune pub at Sandygate Square.

The contractor is set to be picked for First Light, a £21m scheme including a visitors’ centre, exhibition space and auditorium at the observatory near Congleton.

ISG will deliver the £7m project after Trafford Council and contractor Willmott Dixon, which had been attached to the scheme for more than a year, agreed to part ways.

Soilbuild Group has made its first investment in Liverpool by agreeing to purchase Innovo House, a 124-unit student scheme on Devon Street.

Modular homes developer Project Etopia has opened a factory in Ellesmere Port capable of producing 2,000 houses a year.

Troubled construction and outsourcing group Interserve has entered administration with EY, with all of the company's assets immediately moving to a new specially formed company.