Devolution to further benefit the West Midlands and Greater Manchester Nov 14, 2017 Greater Manchester and the west midlands are the only two city-regions which are likely to receive more devolved powers, the chief executive of Coventry council has revealed at a Built Environment Networking Conference. Responding to questions at BEN’s Coventry Development Plans event, Martin Reeves said there would be announcements on further devolution ‘over the next […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Liverpool Council seeks partner for Garden Festival revamp Oct 26, 2017 Liverpool council will be going out to the market later this year for a development partner to regenerate the derelict Garden Festival site, a senior official has told a recent Built Environment Networking event. Mark Kitts, the local authority’s assistant director for development housing and planning, said at BEN’s Liverpool Development Plans event, held in […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Opportunities for the North as ‘Northshoring’ trend continues Oct 19, 2017 Leeds is not doing enough to attract professional services firms seeking to relocate operations from London, the chairman of one of the world’s leading law firms has told Built Environment Networking’s West Yorkshire Economic Growth conference. Global chairman of Eversheds, Paul Smith, told the keynote session at the event that legal companies were seeking to […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
North of England hub airport a key focus at the West Yorkshire Economic Growth Conference Oct 19, 2017 The government’s senior trade official in Yorkshire has expressed disappointment that the north of England has never successfully put forward the case for its own hub airport. Mark Robson, Yorkshire & Humber regional director at the Department of International Trade, said that a shortage of direct air routes to overseas destination was holding back business […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Network of fast city to city trains proposal to be submitted at the end of the year Oct 10, 2017 Detail is still light on plans for the so-called Crossrail of the North, the Director of the region’s transport quango has admitted. Nigel Foster, director of strategy at Transport for the North, said in a session at the West Yorkshire economic growth conference that the business case for the line to link up the region’s […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
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
Development and investment updates from Crewe Aug 23, 2017 £55BN PRICE TAG FOR HS2 IS ‘INSIGNIFICANT’, SAYS RAIL PROJECT DIRECTOR The £55bn cost of building HS2 is ‘insignificant’ when put in the context of the government’s wider spending, according to one of the rail project’s board members. Duncan Sutherland, who is an executive director of the HS2 company that is spearheading the north-south rail […] Posted by: Keith Griffiths Read more
Government in talks with Manchester authority on land clean up fund Aug 23, 2017 The new pan-Manchester authority is negotiating with the government to create a new fund to remediate the conurbation’s contaminated brownfield sites. Eamonn Boylan, chief executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority said that contamination, often the legacy of Manchester’s industrial past, was a big obstacle to bringing forward sites for development across the conurbation. “Land […] Posted by: Keith Griffiths Read more
Winter gardens refurb set to restore Blackpool to Conference Premier League Aug 23, 2017 The refurbishment of Blackpool’s iconic Winter Gardens will put Britain’s biggest seaside resort back on the map as a major conference destination, a Built Environment Networking event heard last week. The renowned conference facility is currently about to undergo a £25m revamp, due to commence in September that will enable it to cater for up […] Posted by: Keith Griffiths Read more
Manchester gets building to meet commercial demand Sep 13, 2014 Developers are getting cracking with commercial developments in Greater Manchester to meet increasing demand from occupiers, according to four clients active in the region. Argent, Muse Developments, Bruntwood and Nikal told the Built Environment Networking event on ‘Manchester Major Development Plans 2014’ in Manchester Town Hall that they were each committing to commercial schemes in […] Posted by: Adil Kotia Read more
