North West

Legal landscape: Heightened expectations in London's housing market

17.08.2018

Last month, the last of three major residential developments at Old Oak Common was approved, kick-starting construction at London’s biggest Opportunity Area and the UK’s largest regeneration...

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North West tops Help to Buy completions

16.08.2018

Laura Edgar

New statistics suggest that the highest proportion of property completions under the Help to Buy: ISA scheme was in the North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, and the West Midlands.

Nations and regions focus: The North West

16.08.2018

The Planner

Development Management & Enforcement | Nations & regions | Nations and regions | North West | Planning Law

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Major consultations on regeneration and transport launched in Manchester

13.08.2018

Huw Morris

Greater Manchester | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | North West | Regeneration

Two large-scale consultations have been launched in Greater Manchester setting out a gateway regeneration plan and the future of transport in the city centre.

Class of 92 campus plan wins approval

13.08.2018

Huw Morris

Community Infrastructure | Manchester | North West | trafford

A proposal backed by the ‘Class of 92’ Manchester United stars to transform the former Kellogg’s building in Stretford into a university campus has secured planning permission.

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Poor public transport in the North limits job opportunities

09.08.2018

Huw Morris

Infrastructure - Transport | joseph rowntree foundation | North East | North West

Unaffordable or unreliable public transport is posing a ‘significant barrier’ to jobs for residents of low-income neighbourhoods in the North, according to latest research.

Barton Willmore submits planning application in Partington

02.08.2018

Prithvi Pandya

Barton Willmore has submitted a planning application to build 600 homes at a disused National Grid LNG Storage site in Partington, Greater Manchester.

Plans for a greener Manchester agreed

01.08.2018

Laura Edgar

andy burnham | Environmental | Greater Manchester Combined Authority | North West

Mayor Andy Burnham and local leaders have agreed on plans to achieve carbon neutrality in Greater Manchester by 2038.

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Perry gives green light to fracking at controversial Lancashire site

25.07.2018

Huw Morris

Shale gas company Cuadrilla is expected to start fracking at a well in Lancashire in the next few weeks after a minister rubber-stamped its application.

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Wirral Council considers green belt land release in local plan

18.07.2018

Laura Edgar

brownfield | Green Belt | North West | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | wirral council

The deputy leader of Wirral Council has said releasing green belt land in the area’s local plan to meet housing will be a ‘last resort’, as the cabinet is set to meet to discuss plans.

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