Despite funding pressures and uncertainty, universities are leading the way with ambitious building programmes across the region. Hear from Salford City Council, Salford University, UCLan and more at Place North West’s update on the higher education sector.
Forecourt retail operator Euro Garages has submitted plans to build an 89,700 sq ft three-storey office block and two drive-through restaurants in Haslingden Road, Blackburn.
BAM Construction has won the job of redeveloping the world top 100 management school at Lancaster’s Bailrigg Campus, a project partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
Chancerygate has been granted planning consent to speculatively develop 12 industrial units and refurbish an existing warehouse at Eaton Point, part of Matrix Park in Chorley.
Contractor GMI has handed over a 92,000 sq ft distribution hub at Eshton’s Burnley Bridge scheme to road haulage business Fagan & Whalley.
Burnley Council has launched the procurement process to find a development partner to bring forward an £18m retail and leisure scheme on Curzon Street in the town centre.
West Lancashire-based Acland Bracewell, chartered surveyors and town planning consultants, has hired Claire Wilkinson from West Lancashire Council as an associate.
M&S Foodhall and TK Maxx have been secured as retail tenants for the extension of the Lancashire town’s Market Walk shopping centre.
Harworth Group is set to celebrate “strong progress" so far in 2017 at its annual general meeting today, largely buoyed by activity at its Logistics North development in Bolton.
The development division of Eric Wright Group, has won a council-run contest to deliver trade counters, light industrial and roadside retail on a 4.4-acre site at Wainwright Way on the way into Blackburn.
