Planning Inspectorate approves £80m Camelot redevelopment

Castle Armoury is being sold to raise money for the town’s Fusiliers Museum.

A redeveloped transport hub for the town and plans for residential development on neighbouring land will receive a slug of funding from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

Scandi scran, looking North, and feeling the heat.

A long-vacant site on Whitworth Street West could be redeveloped into an 818-bed student scheme after earlier plans for a 35-storey build-to-rent tower failed to materialise.

Private equity-backed Ecology Group has bought its ninth business since forming a year ago, adding 80 staff in Manchester and Birmingham to its ranks.

The Haydock-based investor is seeking to deploy capital to acquire workspace across the UK, seeing opportunity while others remain cautious about the sector’s outlook.

Westmorland and Furness Council said the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s decision to turn down a £3.5m bid to expand The Coro was “very disappointing” but that efforts to work up a business case for the building’s regeneration would continue.

Northern Trust has secured outline consent for development on a greenfield site, while the planning committee deferred a decision on a residential to church conversion.

US industrial investor Realterm has let Northbank 40 to the transportation firm following a refurbishment programme.

What would Prime Minister Andy Burnham mean for the North? How does the public sector plan to actually make ‘good growth’ happen? How is the built environment handling viability – and will economic situations improve by the end of the year? Those questions and more will be asked at this senior-level, Chatham House Rule gathering on Thursday 2 July in Manchester.

Having taken the keys back in summer 2025 after tenant-operator Kingswood’s demise, the city council has engaged Newmark to find a buyer for the North Wales outdoor activity centre.

Departing the post of chief scientific officer at Bruntwood SciTech, Kath Mackay has taken an interim position as managing director of the national innovation agency.

The ambitious Wrexham company has lodged a scoping opinion request signalling its intention to develop a campus across 58 acres in Marchwiel.

With the Cheshire and Warrington Combined Authority in play, Crewe is getting a much-deserved rethink, with a focus on not just the town centre but where it sits in a broader regional picture. 

Tameside Council approved the developer’s plans for 444 properties on 60 acres off Stockport Road by five votes to four in the face of more than 350 public objections.

Featuring padel courts, a Hyrox gym, and hyperbaric chambers, Club Mona will be created within Fortress Works off Bentnick Street following the approval of the scheme by the city council.

Foundry Court and Trinity Student Village will add 862 beds to the investor’s £360m Flow Student platform.

The 25-year facility provided by the Welsh building society will support the housing association’s development programme across Cheshire and Merseyside.

I grew up in Cumbria and, like a lot of people, I was told early on that if you wanted to build a career, you’d probably have to leave, writes Pete Thomas of Curtins.