Land Studio boosts ecology team

Salford City Council wants to improve its waterfront settings with active travel and will look to put this front and centre of planning considerations in such areas.

The renewable energy developer is inviting members of the public to provide further opinions to build on the first round of consultation held in November for Scout Moor Two.

The acquisition of the CF Fertilisers site in Ince will enable the expansion of Protos, Peel NRE’s 256-acre clean energy and resource management facility.

The construction of properties between Crewe and Nantwich has taken a step forward after Cheshire East Council received an EIA scoping report from the North Wales-based housebuilder.

Construction of England’s largest onshore wind farm has taken a step forward with Rochdale Council set to consider the renewable energy developer’s application to build a temporary meteorological mast in a bid to have the 100MW facility operational by 2030.

Developer Equans Regeneration can press on with 90 apartments at the Liverpool landmark, after the heritage body said it has no objections.

Reducing the size and workload of planning committees and strengthening development corporations are among the key features of Labour’s proposed reforms.

Wigan is a borough steeped in history, rich in green spaces, and ambitious in its vision for growth and opportunity, – and at the heart of this vision lies Westwood Park, writes Aidan Thatcher, director of place at Wigan Council.

Blackburn-based Vital Energi will deliver the £21m Net Zero Energy Centre, which will host an array of air and water source heat pumps.

Innova Renewables Developments’ proposals could see 136.5 acres of farmland used to power 5,700 local homes and offset nearly 5,000 tonnes of CO2 a year.

Eric Wright Construction has reached the highest point of Salix Homes’ six-storey development of 100 affordable Passivhaus-certified homes off Peru Street.

The next phase of the Morlais Tidal Energy project would increase the scheme’s grid capacity from 18MW to 240MW, giving it the potential to power 180,000 Welsh homes.

Already awaiting a verdict from the local authority on a 200-home project, the land promoter has got the ball rolling on a further 260-home proposal off the A6.

Funding is being lined up to connect the waterfront landmark and council HQ to a district heat network, as the local authority looks to decarbonise its estate.

The developer has submitted an environmental impact assessment screening report to Cheshire East Council, scoping out the potential to build a residential scheme on the land west of Moorsfield Avenue in Audlem.

Conlon Construction has completed its work on the Preston institution and The Hub Consulting has been brought in for the fit-out phase to deliver on Ralph Appelbaum Associates’ designs.

Known as Glöyn Byw, or ‘Butterfly’, the solar array would be built on land to the south of Wrexham and have the potential to power more than 33,000 Welsh homes.

It has been decided that the former mill and printing press on Gloucester Street is not worthy of protected status, paving the way for its redevelopment into a 37-storey student tower.

An overwhelming 84% of more than 3,000 Merseyside residents surveyed support proposals to construct the largest tidal power barrage on earth in the River Mersey, according to the LCRCA.