Plans unveiled for 174 homes in Old Trafford 

The housebuilder has bought a former garden centre on the junction of Ladybridge Road and Mill Lane and is drawing up plans to redevelop it into a retirement living complex.

The contractor has been selected by the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust to build a 105,000 sq ft facility as part of the Salford Royal hospital, and will start construction next month.

The law firm has appointed workplace design and build practice TSK Group to fit-out its 71,000 sq ft headquarters at English Cities Fund’s Two New Bailey. 

A pair of applications to convert the former psychiatric hospital in Stockport into a 70-bed care facility and 68 affordable homes are to be determined in March and a start on site is earmarked for this summer.

Work has started on site to create a five-storey independent living facility for young people, on Bolton’s Deansgate.

The developer plans to build 149 apartments and redevelop a Victorian villa for office space on a site in Talbot Road, Stretford.

One Heritage Group, which listed on the London Stock Exchange last month, has set out revised timeframes for three of its schemes, including the 55-storey tower at Greengate, a co-living property in Burnley and apartments in Oldham.

Whitefield-based HH Smith has been selected to undertake the first phase of work to restore the grade one-listed building on The Esplanade and will start on site in the coming days.

Create Developments has submitted its revised planning application for a seven-storey, 147-bedroom hotel off Barton Road in Stretford, after a council refusal in September forced it back to the drawing board.