Search starts in earnest for Martins Bank restaurant operator

Global reach, Northern focus – that is what the North of England delegation, led by Place North, is all about.

Join Place North for lunch in December and hear predictions from Zoë Billingham, director of the IPPR North think tank, Nick Walkley, interim chief executive of Cheshire & Warrington Combined Authority, Sarah Snape, managing director of BTR developer Rise Homes, and more.

Building on plans for 500,000 sq ft of industrial space on a site to the east, the Blackstone-backed developer wants to knock down three old units off Moss Hall Road and replace them.

Packaged Living and the city council have agreed a Section 106 agreement for the developer’s Old Hall Street scheme, which features buildings of 18 and 25 storeys.

Blurred boundaries, park petitions, and soup strainers.

A former bowls club next to Grand Junction Retail Park will be transformed in a 25,000 sq ft project, bringing five courts and a clubhouse to the site.

This will be the third supermarket to give the spot at The Square a try, with the 15,000 sq ft unit formerly having housed a Booths and an Asda.

Managing director Phil Preston will continue to lead the Chorley-based company as its 170 staff become part of the global environmental and engineering consultancy.

The scale of Smithy Manor’s redevelopment has been cut by more than half, with 30 apartments now proposed where 78 homes once were.

David Waugh has joined the Manchester-based construction consultancy, one of 14 recent hires in the company’s infrastructure services team.

Around 23,000 sq ft across 19 units has been handed over at the proposed 190,000 sq ft Titan Business Park, which was originally expected to complete in 2022. 

Mindful of ongoing sector volatility, the listed real estate giant said work wouldn’t start on the scheme’s 900-home project until 2028 at the earliest, but that construction of the second office at the Manchester mixed-use project could begin next year.

Moving from No.4 St Paul’s to a larger office in No.5 across the way, the law firm’s deal was the largest in Liverpool in Q3.

The firm is looking to establish outline consent for up to 60 market-sale homes on land between the M56 and Breretons Lane.

Avison Young’s Big Nine report states that the total value of workspace transactions outside of London is likely to reach its highest level since 2022, thanks in part to two Q3 deals in Birmingham totalling £148m.

Is Liverpool on the cusp of a regeneration wave or about to see its grand plans fall flat? There was plenty of optimism in a packed room at Place North West’s exploration of the city region’s development landscape, but there was also sense of nervousness about whether its pipeline of exciting projects can become reality.

The 24,000 sq ft scheme on Oak Street, south of the town centre, forms part of charity OnSide’s national network of facilities.

The Planning Inspectorate has overturned the city council’s refusal of the developer’s outline application to build up to 200 homes on 28 acres of Green Belt in Bolton-le-Sands.

GRAHAM is on track to wrap up the infrastructure element of Peel Waters’ 2,350-home neighbourhood in 2028.