LSF seeks £3m for New Brighton opportunity

Now that Christmas 2024 in the rear-view mirror, Cheshire East Council is looking ahead to this year’s festive season. The authority wants to lock in plans for a 43-acre winter wonderland that could generate millions for the local economy.

Transport for Greater Manchester has fleshed out plans to incorporate 96 train stations into the widening network, a move that could increase passenger numbers by 1.3m a year.

Cole Waterhouse and Taurus Investment Holdings have appointed JLL to find a buyer for the 29-storey, 290-apartment Eda.

There are just two weeks to go until the first development-focussed Place North West event of 2025, which will see senior figures from property, academia, and local government grapple with the big questions facing a newly devolved Lancashire.

Inspired Global Cuisine will occupy a 369,000 sq ft unit for 15 years, after terms were agreed with Aver Property, a joint venture between NFU Mutual and Ergo Real Estate.

Businesses from all corners of the built environment sector are throwing their weight behind a campaign to pressure government into providing grant funding to solve the North’s viability crisis. Have you signed up yet? 

The leisure scheme forms part of the wider £12m transformation of the Cumbria town.

Stockport Council has finally rubber-stamped Amstone Developments’ plans for one of the town’s largest residential schemes after “extensive negotiations” in the two years since the £100m project was approved in principle by the authority’s planning committee.

Morris Homes is hopeful of securing full planning consent next week for the redevelopment of the 56-acre former East Lancashire Paper Mill plot in Radcliffe.

The council will consider a Morris Homes application to build a mix of property types on a 17-acre site at Preston-on-the-Hill, south of the M56.

The developer has got the ball rolling as it looks to deliver 210 homes either side of Marsh House Lane, filing a screening report with the local authority.

Along with Cheshire’s RAAC-affected Leighton Hospital, the rebuild of the Crumpsall estate is included in wave one of the New Hospitals Programme’s delivery timetable – but Preston and Lancaster must wait until 2035.

Find your next real estate investment at this half-day conference uncovering what is coming down the track in locations you might not have considered before.

Join Close Brothers Property Finance and Place North for drinks, canapes, and a panel discussion delving into the challenges facing small and medium size housebuilders right now.

Already on site at Albion House and St Mary’s Gate, the developer has submitted proposals for 27 apartments at 48 Churchgate, a scheme designed by Ollier Smurthwaite.

The Crown Estate has appointed the developer as its partner for a 60-home scheme that has ambitious sustainability targets baked in.

Four brownfield sites to the north-east of Oldham town centre will each host a mixture of mews, semi-detached, and detached homes.

To be named Momentum Plus, the 67,000 sq ft business park will be developed at South Rings close to the M65 interchange.

Russell LDP and Harworth Group have launched a consultation ahead of submitting plans for industrial-led development between Rochdale and Bury, in the Atom Valley mayoral development zone.