Cheshire sets out MIPIM ambitions

Cheshire and Warrington will look to MIPIM as a platform to tell the story of a rapidly growing and diversifying science and energy base, a Place North West roundtable session was told this week.

The pan-European investor, which manages Birchwood Park, is to be the lead sponsor for Cheshire and Warrington at MIPIM 2018, heading a list of 31 organisations including Bruntwood, Peel and Grosvenor.

John Osborne has joined as senior quantity surveyor and Owen Clarke as site manager. Both will be working on the 26-home Edge Fold Road development in Walkden.  

Warrington Council and Muse Developments will call the new £107m town centre development, previously known as the Bridge Street Regeneration Scheme, Time Square, after one of the areas within the development zone.

Introducing the schedule of Place North West events for next year.

Philip Cox, chief executive of Cheshire & Warrington LEP, will take on a new role as chief executive of 871 Growth, a parent company established to oversee the work of both organisations.

Property folk with an idea that could innovate the industry and support devolved government have until the end of September to enter a new competition being run by Lambert Smith Hampton.

PlaceEXPO, the dedicated property venue within the UK's International Festival for Business 2014, has agreed its latest partnership deal, with Warrington & Co, to showcase key sectors and developments within the town.