Manchester Town Hall set to close ahead of £300m restoration Oct 6, 2017 Manchester’s town hall is due to close next year as the iconic Victorian building gears up for a £300m restoration, a Built Environment Network heard last month Paul Candelent, project director of the Our Town Hall Project, told BEN’s Manchester Major Development Plans event that the neo-Gothic Revival building will close to the public in […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Ten acre site on the edge of Birmingham City Centre wins consent Sep 30, 2017 Birmingham’s biggest private landlord has secured outline permission for the redevelopment of 10-acre site on the edge of the city centre, Business Environment Networking’s recent event in the city heard. Mark Lee, chief executive of the Calthorpe Estate, told at the Birmingham Development Plans event that outline permission has been granted for the redevelopment of […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
£8.4bn price tag for Oxfordshire infrastructure Sep 30, 2017 Oxfordshire requires approximately £8.4bn worth of infrastructure investment by 2040, a Built Environment Networking event has heard. Sue Halliwell, Oxfordshire County Council’s director for planning & place, revealed the emerging findings of the OxIS study that at BEN’s Oxfordshire Development Plans event last month. She said the study had shown that the county’s transport funding […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Huddersfield University set for new developments Jul 22, 2017 Huddersfield University are heavily investing in new buildings to attract students to study in Yorkshire. A new £30m development will see the Barbara Hepworth Building become a start of the art facility for students studying art, design and architecture. Colin Blair, recently made an MBE in the New Years Honours, will be speaking at our […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
