Manchester rejects Strangeways padel proposals

The conversion of Breeden House and Regency Court will bring 108 apartments to the town centre. Elsewhere, a 101-home proposal for Holmes Chapel was rejected, with concerns raised by neighbouring employer Bespak joining an objection from Jodrell Bank.

Plans have been lodged for a 23,000 sq ft joint facility for Flintshire and Denbighshire’s councils, to be delivered next to the Theatr Clwyd in Mold’s civic quarter.

In the spotlight over recent defeats at appeal, the council’s planning committee has voted in line with officers in refusing one scheme, and gone against them in opposing another.

Acting for Recognise Bank, receiver Watling has sold the Merseyside residences to the Liverpool-based investor and developer.

Bridgemere Group and subsidiary Castle Green Homes have been granted permission to challenge the Department for Transport’s decision to delay the approval of the developers’ 330-home scheme on land in Warrington that could accommodate a section of the proposed Northern Arc rail scheme.

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A 65-bed capacity nursing home and 84 apartments across two schemes have been rubber-stamped by the city council’s planning committee.

Having officially ditched plans for a school on the site earlier this year, the council has appointed Cheshire Leisure to restore the 1930s building and bring it back into use as a community fitness facility with a pool.

Liverpool Football Club must try again to win council backing as it looks to make permanent a road closure behind the expanded Anfield Road stand.

The housebuilder successfully won over the city council’s planning committee to secure a unanimous vote of approval for its proposals to build 44 homes off Ashton Road.

West Lancashire Council has told the developer that an environmental impact assessment will be required as it seeks to advance plans for 360 homes in Aughton.

EEH Ventures has let 150,000 sq ft to the operators within the shopping complex’s former Debenhams and M&S stores, as the shift from retail to leisure takes hold.

Going forward, a sharper focus on the country’s top 20 student cities, including Newcastle and Manchester, will see the student accommodation provider sell more than £300m of assets this year.

The contractor has completed a 10,000 sq ft modular outpatients facility next to the main entrance of the Crewe hospital.

The Great Portwood Street home to Dreams and B&M has changed hands, with the Cheshire company picking up the 18,500 sq ft complex for an undisclosed price.

HG Construction can commence building Far East Orchard’s 239-studio Apex scheme off Plymouth Grove.

The Planning Inspectorate’s decision to overturn the council’s rejection of Harrow Estates’ 84-acre extension of Woodford Garden Village has been upheld – but the legal challenge is not over yet.

Plans for 130 homes next to the Kings Moat garden village strategic allocation have been lodged with Cheshire West and Chester Council by the housebuilder.

A seven-acre triangular slice of brownfield land between St Helens and Sutton can be developed into a mix of two-, three-, and four-bed homes.