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Langtree and Panattoni have had planning permission for a £300m employment scheme off Junction 20 of the M6 refused by the Planning Inspectorate.

32 so-called Homebuilding Skills Hubs will be created across the country, with places most in need of new houses prioritised.

Manchester City Council had to act quickly to acquire Brotherton House and prevent efforts to regenerate the area from being undermined.

The council will only support plans for a new Liverpool to Manchester line and an alternative Midlands – North West rail link if they benefit the town, which was negatively impacted by the cancellation of HS2 north of Birmingham.

Lakeside living, disrupted dinners, and faraway forays.

While the snow fell outside, the North West’s next generation of property professionals stayed warm and dry at Place Young Things.

Gladman Developments’ hopes of redeveloping a 97-acre Green Belt site have been dashed at appeal.

A draft waterfront masterplan is still months away from dropping, but in the meantime, Sam Campbell teased one revolutionary idea that’s on the table.

Expect to see two new high rises on the city skyline now that JRL Group and Central & Urban have secured city council approval for their 28-storey apartment block by Piccadilly, while Zephyr X did the same for its 23-story BTR scheme in Cheetham Hill.

Frameless, which has a permanent exhibition in London’s Marble Arch, will set up shop within a 16,000 sq ft pop-up space at Landsec’s Salford complex.

Kingswood Homes has secured planning permission to construct a neighbourhood on land that was formerly a gritstone quarry in Whittle-le-Woods – more than a decade after an outline application was approved.

After being forced by a legal challenge to reconsider Zoo2U’s application to construct a three-acre wildlife park in Holmes Chapel, the council greenlit the scheme for a second time.

Great Jackson Street Estates, controlled by investor Aubrey Weis, can go ahead with its 1,000-apartment Park Place scheme after the developer and the city council signed a Section 106 agreement.

Manchester city councillors have signed off the strategic regeneration framework following a public consultation on the scheme, which reframes the 60-acre, office-focussed Airport City as an advanced manufacturing and R&D hub.

Labour’s pro-development reform aims to liberalise planning and encourage housebuilding. But will it be enough to deliver the 1.5m homes target in the next five years? Scott Marshall of Roma Finance investigates.

Eren Holdings, the owner of the 210-acre Shotton Mill site at Deeside Industrial Park, wants its tissue production to become “a flagship exemplar project in the UK and Europe.”

The Labour stalwart, proud Welshman, and adopted Northerner died on 20 November, following a distinguished career that helped to reshape cities and regional development.

A 60-storey building at the £741m Trinity Islands and the 40-floor Parkside in Salford’s Greengate district provide a total of 1,049 homes.

In total, £14m has been injected into Edwards Homes’ 141-property development, with Lloyds-backed Housing Growth Partnership providing £2.7m of equity.