Place North West launches 2020 Media Pack

Plans by Sibelco to extract 3.3 million tons of industrial sand from a site near Goostrey have been recommended for approval, despite the project receiving nearly 800 letters of objection.

Energy and property businesses have combined to brand a range of assets from Ellesmere Port to Runcorn, along with sites capable of welcoming further development, as the Energy Innovation District.

A proposal will go before Cheshire West & Chester Council and Cheshire East Council’s respective cabinets next week for a £13m project to re-house the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies collection.

Retailers, restaurant owners and hoteliers received a boost to trade from an unusual source over the weekend as thousands of Pokémon GO players visited for two days of events designed to use the game to educate young people about history.

Cheshire West & Chester Council has issued a lengthy statement to try and deflect fierce criticism of its decision to award a long lease to pub operator Thwaites at Dee House, ongoing against excavating the Roman amphitheatre at the city centre site.

Councillors have agreed a 150-year lease with pub chain Daniel Thwaites to redevelop Dee House and surrounding land in Chester city centre despite objections from residents who campaigned for excavation of the 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheatre beneath instead.

Chester-based social enterprise, Big Heritage, is to reopen two 14th century landmarks on the Roman Walls that have been left empty for decades.

Register for this year's Hill Dickinson Developers' Conference at Chester Zoo to hear from guest speakers Guy Butler, director at Glenbrook, and Shaun Smyth, director of real estate at RBS and NatWest.