Morbaine succeeds with 244-bed hotel

After completing enabling work, construction of the £70m development is underway with Vinci continuing on site.

Plans to expand the African savannah habitat, which had been due to open in 2022, have been delayed as the zoo works to recover from the financial impact of Covid-19, which left a “deep scar” on its business. 

Work is to restart on a £21m dementia care village in Chester, following Belong's appointment of Seddon Construction to take over the unfinished project after the collapse of Pochin's last summer.

The meandering saga of the £70m mixed-use project has taken another turn with Cheshire West & Chester Council’s cabinet asked to agree to a "revised financing arrangement" in light of the pandemic. 

The contractor is carrying out enabling works on the first phase of Cheshire West & Chester Council's £70m mixed-use scheme more than 20 years after redevelopment of the area was first mooted, and hopes to continue despite the virus outbreak.

Cheshire West and Chester Council has agreed to progress plans for Chester City Gateway, a project to regenerate the railway station and surrounding area.

Applications that would bring a total of 1,700 homes to the market are recommended for approval by the council next week.

ISG has begun the process of demolishing the former main building at Chester fire station as a £5.5m scheme to redevelop the site reaches its third phase.