Oliver Cookson, the Manchester entrepreneur who founded MyProtein, has secured revised planning approval for his residential development in the city's…
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Bolton loses an 80-year-old contractor as Forshaw Demolition enters administration
Forshaw Demolition, a Bolton contractor trading for around 80 years, has been placed into administration with KBL Advisory following a…
Read MoreDrax gets its carbon capture permit. The hard part starts now
The Environment Agency has granted Drax the permit variation it needs to fit carbon capture at its Selby biomass plant,…
Read MoreA council 250 miles away just won permission to build sheds in Warrington
Portsmouth City Council has secured planning consent for a 98,000 sq ft industrial unit on a former Mercedes-Benz dealership site…
Read MoreThe first crane has landed at Sheffield Forgemasters’ £1.3bn rebuild
The first of 11 overhead cranes has arrived at Sheffield Forgemasters' new 323,000 sq ft machine shop, part of the…
Read MoreHarworth tells Peel to get lost: inside the £583m fight for 15,000 Northern acres
Peel Holdings has bid £583m for the 70% of Rotherham-based Harworth Group it does not already own. The board rejected…
Read MoreThe North Daily, 29 July 2026: Sheffield’s high street bought outright, £1.5bn opened to local builders, and AI’s high street blind spot
NewRiver takes full ownership of Sheffield's The Moor for £38.3m, Hull's Pagabo opens £1.5bn of public work to local contractors,…
Read MoreAI chatbots get the facts wrong on two in three shops. That is a Northern high street problem
New research finds AI chatbots return a false fact about roughly two in three UK high street businesses, most often…
Read MoreBarnsley’s Ben Bailey Homes buys land for 113 new homes across South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire housebuilder Ben Bailey Homes has acquired two sites in Doncaster and Barnsley for 113 homes, backed by residential…
Read MoreHull’s Pagabo opens up £1.5bn of public building work to local contractors
Hull-based procurement specialist Pagabo is launching a £1.5bn national framework for public-sector construction, split into regional lots designed to give…
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