Story Homes reveals Kendal ambitions

An open letter to Greater Manchester Mayor and Makerfield Parliamentary candidate Andy Burnham from Jeremy Hinds.

Understood to include office schemes at One Pall Mall Gardens and Martins Bank, six projects worth more than £200m will receive support from the fund.

Southway Housing Trust and Wythenshawe Community Housing Group are in talks about a deal that would create the city’s largest social housing organisation, with around 21,000 homes.

A team led by architect Hawkins Brown will develop a strategic regeneration framework to guide development around the city’s busiest transport gateway.

Supported by a loan from GMCA’s Good Growth Fund, the council has completed the acquisition of the 151,000 sq ft Ashton-under-Lyne retail hub.

The national HVAC merchant has signed for a 21,000 sq ft former HSS unit off Liverpool’s Derby Road, relocating from 15,500 sq ft in Birkenhead.

This year was supposed to be the year of the great landlord exodus. We were told there would be a stampede for the door, as the combination of incoming legislation such as the Renters’ Rights Act, plus increased landlord responsibilities, made it less affordable than ever to be in the property sector. And yet, we have seen something rather different, writes Phil Basten, Handelsbanken Manchester and Trafford branch, so what is going on?

Jolly Harbour may not exist today, but the fictional town conjured up by those attending Place North’s Tuesday breakfast event served as a great testbed for conversations about placemaking best practice.

Introducing tax breaks to help regenerate ailing town centres and cutting planning red tape would be among the party’s focuses if it were to form a government at the next general election, according to deputy leader Richard Tice.

What more can be done to make it easier and more viable to convert older buildings into much-needed homes? That was the question pondered recently by Crystal Jenkins, associate director at Overford, and Capital&Centric co-founder Tim Heatley.

Greater Manchester faces a long‑standing north–south economic divide but Bury is showing what strong local leadership and coordinated investment can achieve, writes Paul Lakin of Bury Council.

Story Homes, Northern Trust and John Swift Homes are among the property firms hoping for success at the council’s planning committee meeting on 27 May.

Enhancing the spaces between the Gary Neville-owned outfit’s various schemes around St Mary’s Parsonage will pave the way for the delivery of 1.2m sq ft of office space and more, according to the city council.

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook has defended the government’s approach to planning and housing reform, rejecting claims it was ‘underprepared’ on entering office.

Harworth’s 660-home pitch for Wistaston and Bruntwood’s amended 145-home plan for Booths Park in Knutsford are recommended for approval, but Muller’s bid for an Audlem consent could be stymied.

Around 4,500 homes and 2m sq ft of commercial space could be delivered next door to the town’s main train station under plans being drawn up in response to the anticipated arrival of a new railway line between Liverpool and Manchester.

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group wants to knock down some of its older stock and deliver around 320 homes across two sites.

The industrial specialist has acquired a plot within Greater Manchester’s Northern Gateway, for what will be the mayoral development zone’s first speculative logistics development.

Meet the candidates vying to become the county’s first mayor at this annual event, which provides attendees with the must-know information they need to spot opportunities and do business in Carlisle, Barrow, the Lake District National Park, and more.