PBSA plotted for Liverpool’s St Anne Street

Billed as a catalyst for the coastal town’s regeneration, the attraction and educational facility has taken a huge step towards reality with the appointment of a contractor to build it.

The local authority’s cabinet will this week be asked to sign off the contractor’s appointment to deliver a four-arm roundabout on the New Whalley Old Road, opening up access for a projected 1,000+ homes.

The refurbishment of the grade two star-listed building into a new “nationally significant” cultural destination for the borough could take a major step forward next week despite objections from the Victorian Society and Georgian Group.

An off-market deal saw Aberdeen Group finally sell the 167,000 sq ft office building in the city’s First Street district – nearly three years after the investment manager had abandoned an 18-month search for a buyer.

A final acquisition of a 26-acre plot from Lancashire County Council has ensured that Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be able to move forward with the building of a new healthcare campus.

Eamonn Boylan never sought the spotlight. Throughout his 45-year-career as a public servant, he seemed content to just get on with the actual doing of things. Rather than lead, he preferred to guide. His impact was no less transformative.

Senior figures from politics, local government and regeneration have lined up to pay tribute to “an exemplary public servant” following the passing of the former chief executive of Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

Widely viewed as one of the most influential civil servants of his generation, the former Greater Manchester Combined Authority chief executive has died after a short stay in hospital.

Options for one, two, or three sheds on a 22.4-acre site off Junction 4 of the M61 have been put to the local council.

Three fully let sites, totalling 148,100 sq ft, are now available for purchase at Deeside Industrial Park.

Rachel Laver has taken up the role of managing director, which was vacated by Levi Rickell last year.

A Liverpool City Council sub-committee will next week be asked to sign off an allocation of £2.47m to support delivery of landscaped space at the long-awaited commercial development.

The housebuilder has two new department heads in the region, with Amanda Jones becoming head of sales at the Daresbury headquarters, and Kerrie Clayton becoming head of customer service.

Farmfoods has signed for a 10,000 sq ft unit formerly occupied by Carpetright at St Mary’s Gate Retail Park, while Dunelm has renewed its lease and work has started on a Starbucks drive-thru.

More than 30 sixth-forms across the region are set to benefit from more than £300m of government funding aimed at restoring run-down further education facilities.

A Section 106 agreement has been finalised for ASBBJ Real Estate’s £46.9m Angel Gardens, a project that will see two large apartment blocks constructed at the junction of St Anne Street and Fox Street in the Everton ward.

Trinity United Church, off Cheetham Hill Road, will become a furniture showroom after proposals were signed off by planning officers.

The chair of Homes England and the chief executive of the newly launched National Housing Bank sat down with Place to to outline how £16bn of public funding will be mobilised to unlock housing delivery at scale.

Split into three units, the proposed building would sit off Croft Head Road at the Whitebirk Industrial Estate.