Mixed messages over GMSF future
As Greater Manchester looks beyond Covid-19, debate over the long-running creation of its Spatial Framework, the plan to guide development for the next 20 years, has once again reared its head.
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Start nears on Renaker skyscraper trio
Renaker is to start construction on its latest skyscraper this month, a 50-storey tower in Salford's Greengate that will form the first building in a 1,500-apartment cluster.
McGoff completes £85m Salford flats
The McGoff Group has completed Downtown, its £85m apartment development on the banks of the River Irwell in Salford.
Work to start this month on 226 Leigh homes
Your Housing Group and MCI Developments have been granted planning consent for a £31m housing development in Leigh.
Edgefold plots homes near Dunham Massey
The housebuilder has submitted a full planning application to build a collection of family homes on a vacant brownfield site that once housed the Panflora Nurseries on Barns Lane, Warburton.
Cert and Heatley plot 129 flats in Stretford
The developers have submitted plans for four blocks of apartments at the Royal Canal Works site near Stretford Mall, replacing a previous proposal.
Lovell plots next phase of Miles Platting
The housebuilder, owned by Morgan Sindall Group, has lodged plans for 22 homes in the Manchester suburb as part of a £235m private finance initiative to regenerate the area.
Cheadle hospice set for £20m redevelopment
A planning application to redevelop St Ann’s Hospice in Heald Green, Stockport, has been submitted on behalf of the hospice trust.
Smith delays departure to assist in coronavirus crisis
Eddie Smith, director of growth and development at Manchester City Council, has pushed back his planned departure from the council in order to stay on in the face of the coronavirus outbreak.
Renaker to close all sites on Friday
Renaker Build, which has a pipeline of thousands of apartments across Manchester and Salford, said all sites would be closed on Friday and staff sent home on full pay for three weeks.
