Judge sides with Trafford on Carrington industrial dispute

Over recent years, the focus of placemaking has shifted from short-term interventions towards a more co-ordinated approach, one that recognises the town centre as a place to live, work and spend time, writes Jon Dyson of Bolton Council.

Brass bands, film crews, and half marathons.

Council members will decide on Monday whether or not to revoke an agreement to sell a nearly four-acre site off Ditton Lane in Moreton after a campaign group made the case for the environmental benefits of keeping the plot development-free.

Ex-Canmoor director Rodney Hunt has joined the European last mile logistics platform to help lead its investment and asset management division.

Procurement is underway for a design-and-build contract to deliver a secondary school for 64 students with social, emotional, and mental health needs off Mayfield Street.

The housing association wants to build 50 affordable houses at the disused Elsa Road sports field.

MSA Business Developments wants to build 10 townhouses and 28 apartments on the site of a showroom on the A6.

Situated in the council’s Basford East strategic site, the school would have capacity for 210 students with the ability to double in size down the line.

Persimmon Homes has won its appeal against Westmorland and Furness Council to remove a planning restriction that required non-opening windows in bedrooms due to fears over noise from the nearby railway.

The housebuilder has lodged plans with Salford City Council within a wider development at Hazelhurst Farm, which it is taking forward with Taylor Wimpey following a deal with Peel Land last year.

A court has wiped clean the title of the failed Wavelength development, paving the way for Soller Group to buy the site and leaving investors short.

The local authority is seeking to offload further properties and set up joint ventures for others, with details of the 2026-27 disposal programme now revealed.

Coming in at a proposed 675,100 sq ft, the shed would sit on the former Iceland frozen food distribution site at Hardwick Grange.

After more than five years at Ryder Architecture, Sheldon Walsh has started a new chapter with the global design and engineering practice.

The city council’s cabinet meeting next week is set to rubber-stamp a £4m package of highway improvements, part of its wider £250m regeneration programme for the Anfield area.

Oldham has always been a place shaped by community, heritage and momentum, writes Emma Barton of Oldham Council. Since 2024, that momentum has been clear by the visible, on-the-ground delivery across the borough, where plans have become places and Oldham’s defining regeneration story is being told.

Part of the £29m Millom Town Deal, a visitor centre at Hodbarrow Nature Reserve will be a feature of the coastal walkway, and is the standout item on a planning agenda also featuring a Premier Inn, a care home and affordable housing.

“Liverpool is seizing a once‑in‑a‑generation opportunity to transform how our city is heated,” said Leader Cllr Liam Robinson.

The former Ritz Roller Rink site on the corner of Mulberry Street and Myrtle Street has planning permission for 242 student flats.