Built Environment Networking Blog: North West News

Industrials REIT secures planning for multi-let industrial scheme

Industrials REIT, the UK multi-let industrial (“MLI”) property company, has secured planning approval for a 55,750 sq ft MLI scheme at its Old Mill Industrial Estate, in Bamber Bridge, Preston. Acquired in 2018, Industrials REIT will transform the existing estate by redeveloping an old industrial building and utilising some vacant land.  The 44 new light […]

Posted by: Mya Driver

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Greater Manchester and Liverpool regional leaders unite to champion Levelling Up opportunities at UKREiiF

UKREiiF is a new annual event that will connect people, places and businesses in order to accelerate the levelling up agenda and unlock sustainable, inclusive and transformational investment Conference speakers include a host of senior figures from national and local government, as well as leading developers and investors Awards to celebrate pioneers in the ESG […]

Posted by: Nathan Spencert

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Bentley reveals £2.5bn investment plan as firm moves towards EV’s

Bentley’s first-ever Battery-Powered Electric Vehicle (BEV) will be developed and built in the UK with the company committing to investing £2.5 billion in sustainability over the next ten years. The announcement is a major boost for the UK economy and also helps secure Bentley’s first step into electrification at the production plant, where all Bentley […]

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PIC invests £130m into Wirral Waters scheme

Pension Insurance Corporation plc (“PIC”), a specialist insurer of defined benefit pension funds, has completed a £130 million investment in Wirral Waters One (“WWO”), the cornerstone residential scheme for the broader development of Peel L&P’s Wirral Waters, a 500-acre brownfield site and former dockland. Regeneration specialists Peel L&P has launched a 30-year strategy which will […]

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£2.5bn injection to deliver 18,000 homes across Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester Housing Providers (GMHP), a unique partnership of regional housing providers working together to make a positive different to people and communities, have released major plans to develop 18,000 new homes across the region in the next 5 years. It forms part of their vision to deliver 50,000 new and affordable homes by 2037 […]

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Chancerygate submits plans for new industrial and warehouse development

Chancerygate has submitted plans to speculatively build 72,140 sq ft of industrial and warehousing space in Bredbury, near Stockport. Called Cromwell Park, the proposed scheme will be located on a four-acre site in Bredbury Park Industrial Estate and comprise 10 Grade A  leasehold units ranging from 1,927 sq ft to 22,001 sq ft. The projected […]

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Bill to extend HS2 to Manchester handed to parliament

The prospect of high-speed journeys adding extra capacity into the rail network, and helping to close the distances between towns and cities in the Midlands and North, took a giant leap forward today (24 January 2022) as the Bill for the Crewe–Manchester extension of the HS2 network was submitted to Parliament. The Bill sets out […]

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Far East Consortium snaps up 2-acre Manchester site

Far East Consortium, the developer behind Manchester’s Victoria North regeneration project, has snapped up a two-acre site to form part of its Red Bank neighbourhood. The land on Dantzic Street is part of the strategic regeneration framework for Victoria North, which will deliver 15,000 new homes in Manchester city centre over the next decade. FEC […]

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EP Properties acquires Blackburn Innovation Centre and Fusion House

An investment company has acquired the 44,000 sq ft Innovation Centre and Fusion House at Evolution Park in the town. Developed as a landmark regeneration project by St Modwen in 2008, the centre was designed to nurture growing medical, science and technology sector organisations and is currently home to tenants including nuclear engineering firm Assystem and […]

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