Stockport Council is preparing compulsory purchase powers to acquire the Daw Bank bus depot after talks with Stagecoach stalled, saying…
Read More
Manchester has approved the Crumpsall SEND school after all. The travel plan did it
Manchester City Council has approved the conversion of a vacant Crumpsall care home into a special needs primary school for…
Read MorePeel is not backing off. Now it is attacking Harworth’s numbers
Peel has escalated its £583m bid for Harworth, attacking the company's cost base, its 3.9% four-year returns, its delayed £1bn…
Read MoreThe A66 dualling is funded, and the North’s worst strategic road finally gets fixed
The £1.4bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine scheme, dualling 80km between the M6 at Penrith and the A1(M) at Scotch Corner, has…
Read MoreOver £2bn of the first social housing allocations is coming North. Here is the breakdown
The government has released the first allocations from its £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme. Greater Manchester takes £529m, West…
Read MoreThe North Weekly, fortnight to 22 August 2026: capital is consolidating, government is fragmenting
Twenty four stories from the fortnight to 22 August, read together. Peel sets out plans to strip Harworth's head office…
Read MoreA buyer is found for Queen Margaret’s at Escrick, and the private school shakeout reaches Yorkshire
The Queen Margaret's School site at Escrick in North Yorkshire has changed ownership amid wider turmoil in the private education…
Read MoreThwaite Mills gets a restoration plan, with a museum, a pub and a café
Leeds's listed Thwaite Mills, a rare surviving water-powered mill on an island in the Aire, has been taken on for…
Read MorePendle moves on two Nelson projects at once
Pendle Council is appointing firms for the renovation of Trafalgar House and preparing the sale of its Innovation Centre, advancing…
Read MoreBarrow’s Majestic Hotel wins consent for a 41-room overhaul
Planning consent has been granted to refurbish Barrow-in-Furness's vacant Majestic Hotel into 41 rooms, in a town where submarine programme…
Read More