Manchester on hunt for team to refresh Piccadilly vision on NPR opportunity

21 Living’s take on the famous New York landmark and Taylor Wimpey’s plans to build houses in the Green Belt are both in line to be given consent next week.

Aidan Thatcher, the council’s director of place for the last five and a half years, has departed in pursuit of a new challenge.  

To be delivered by Domis Construction, Plot A1 at New Bailey in Salford will be the final residential part of the Salford Central masterplan, bringing 189 affordable apartments across 21 storeys.

Four years on from submission, outline plans for 160 homes off Hayclose Road have approval.

Honouring the shared love of dance of Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice Da Silva Aguiar, and Bebe King, the revitalised public space would include flexible spaces for performances and community events, play areas, and enhanced planting in a family-friendly setting.

Salford City Council has approved plans by CERT Property and ForHousing for affordable flats and townhouses off Albert Street on the site of a former garage.

A new tenant by Christmas: that’s the goal for the 50,600 sq ft store’s latest owner, a Nottingham-based developer who has been slowly branching out into Lancashire.

Vacant shops within the Salford Quays outlet are being overhauled for Hyperdrive Karting and Hollywood Bowl, which are planning to open next autumn.

With three applications adding up to 460 homes already in the works across the borough, the firm is looking to nearly replicate that number with a single application for a site next to Culcheth High School.

The Stockport-based architecture practice has welcomed Alison Duxbury back as a director, almost a decade after she first joined the team.

Join Place North on Thursday as we debate the fate of high streets and how development can best boost town centres across the region.

A motion has been tabled encouraging councillors to object to the huge logistics scheme as the authority doubles down on efforts to resist Green Belt development.

Let to global logistics outfit DB Schenker for the next six years, the unit was sold by Cabot Properties at a sub-5% yield.

Jazzy ties, gardens, and big bangs.

Wigan Council has an ambitious vision for its borough and is actively working to turn these plans into reality. Director of place Aidan Thatcher walked Place North West through the local authority’s approach.

An application has been lodged with the highest court in the land requesting permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s June decision that Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s £120m loans to special purpose vehicles owned by Daren Whitaker were lawful.

The Arch and The Electra, totalling 341 units, have been acquired by a JV between Aboria Capital and Partners Group, along with schemes in Newcastle, London, and Cambridge.

The former USDAW headquarters off Wilmslow Road is the subject of plans for 53 one- to four-bed homes.

Plans for an 8.2m sq ft logistics scheme featuring a freight interchange have taken an important step forward with the purchase of land close to Junction 22 of the M6 from Harworth.