Fairhurst Buckley appoints company director

A platform that will provide an exit route for the developer and allow the investor to enter underinvested residential markets is close to being formalised, Place North West understands.

“What is the point of setting a target that you can deliver without bold action?” Prime Minister Keir Starmer told an audience at Pinewood Studios on Thursday.

A new future has been outlined for the 220-acre former Penrhos Aluminium Works in Holyhead, with Stena Line-owned property company Anglesey Land Holdings unveiling its ambitions to build up to 2.6m sq ft of data centre buildings, 107,600 sq ft of offices, and 53,800 sq ft of dedicated R&D space.

Located between the town centre and Prestbury, the site is to be redeveloped to address an “urgent need” for housing in Cheshire East.

With Richard Hemmings on board as managing director, the development financier has committed £60m to regional projects – a number it hopes to grow.

A vehicle headed up by former Beech Holdings director Stephen Beech has lodged plans for a 97-unit scheme.

The joint venture has submitted a planning application for the 1,300-home neighbourhood, one of the largest regeneration projects in the town’s history.

With 30 companies and local authorities on board as partners, the media group has shared how it will lead the Northern charge at the global expo with two dynamic panel sessions at the event’s UK stage.

Sefton & Formby Developments has secured the signatures of the two well-known retailers as it progresses plans for a shopping and employment complex east of the bypass.

Despite delays to the promised government reforms on planning, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has outlined ambitions to bring back regional spatial strategies. Plus: rent controls and Manchester offices.

John Turner Construction has broken ground at the Wythenshawe Hospital project after a three-year campaign raised £3.9m for the build.

The foundation has acquired Windsor House at the corner of Lower Bridge Street and Pepper Street in the city centre – marking the first time it has had a hotel in its portfolio.

After three years leading the government regeneration agency’s markets, partners, and places team, Michael Palin is leaving the organisation. Jo Nugent, director of the MPP’s Midlands team, will take over his role until a successor is found.

This week on Scheming, arguably Manchester’s most influential architect chats with Place North West about his love of glass, working with Renaker to transform the city’s skyline, and his ambitious vision for the inner ring road.

Liverpool City Council’s cabinet is expected to approve an outline strategy, the Housing and Sites Delivery Programme, which targets the building of more than 11,000 homes, as well as bringing more than 10,000 vacant properties back into use.

There is a lot of work to be done if there is any hope of achieving the government’s goal to build 1.5m homes over the next five years. Property professionals from the public and private sector gathered in Liverpool to debate the best way forward in this roundtable discussion hosted by Onward Homes.

A former petrol station will get a green makeover, with the shopping centre submitting plans to nearly quadruple its current number of ultra rapid chargers for electric vehicles.

Around 400 acres across the country has been acquired for data centre development this year, the vast majority of which was previously earmarked for logistics space.

Energy company EDF has committed a further £1.3bn investment into its five nuclear power stations in the UK, increasing the operational life of four facilities in the process.