Planning Permission Passed For 10,000 Job Creation Scheme

Ambitious plans to transform the former SSI Redcar steelworks site have taken a step forward – as planning permission has been granted. The project, named Teesworks, is a public sector led development project which will act as a truly game-changing scheme for the region – creating a world class manufacturing site feeding into the North […]

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Gentoo Gets Approved For 6 Housing Development Sites

Sunderland City Council has given Gentoo Group the go-ahead to develop 170 affordable homes across the city – spanning six different development sites. Gentoo – who’re speaking at the upcoming North East Development Conference – are planning to build 900 homes in the region for rent and shared ownership by 2024, with these initial approved […]

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Collaborative Voices Bid For Free Trade Zone In North East

The North East LEP is submitting a bid to create a Free Trade Zone, driving economic growth across the region and acting as a catalyst for investment and regeneration. The LEP has announced that they’re putting the bid together alongside a number of partners including: Port of Blyth Port of Sunderland Port of Tyne [emaillocker […]

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Karbon Homes: Developing New Towns & Levelling Up The North

We’ve been speaking with Charlotte Carpenter, Executive Director of Growth and Development at Karbon Homes – one of the North East’s leading organisations within the housing sector – covering topics such as MMC, garden communities and levelling up the North… Q. Karbon manages nearly 30,000 homes across the North East and Yorkshire, how does this […]

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Tees Valley Unveils Plans For New £90m Quay on River Tees

Plans have been unveiled for a new £90m Quay which will help the region become the UK’s primary offshore wind location. Transforming a 1km stretch the site will provide global organisations with direct access into the heart of 500-acres of development land, and thousands more across the wider Teesworts site straight from the North Sea. […]

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Port of Tyne Launches Green Energy Park

The Port of Tyne – based in the North East of England – is creating a new green energy park for the region’s renewable energy industry that will lead to further land clearance and development over the coming years. Tyne Clean Energy Park will benefit from unrestricted, lock free access to berths with 13-metre of […]

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Northern Powerhouse Rail Is Vital To The North’s Continued Recovery

Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) is more important than ever as the North seeks to regrow its economy following the coronavirus pandemic – that was the message at Built Environment Networking’s Sheffield City Region Development Conference. NPR’s ambitious rail upgrades programme will feature electrifications, new lines and improve capacity and connectivity across the North. [emaillocker id=”71749″] […]

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HH Properties Middlesbrough Project Takes Step Forward

HH Properties are bringing forward a number of developments across Middlesbrough, and their project at the former Springfield Hotel has reached a major milestone. [emaillocker id=”71749″] The former hotel and pub has now been demolished having received permission to do so from Middlesbrough Council in April – paving the way for a new eight-storey student […]

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Homes England Backs Burtree Garden Village

Homes England has officially entered into an agreement with Hellens Group to bring forward Burtree Garden Village. [emaillocker id=”71749″] The 2,000 home community development, situated in Darlington, would include employment space with the first stage delivering 700 new properties and a public park. Marie Kiddell, Head of Planning and Enabling in the North for Homes […]

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