News @ FU7URE https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html The North Daily, 28 October 2026: Budget hands mayors tax powers, Lancashire gets a mayor, and £303m for Leeds station Canada Life puts Sheffield’s 1 St Paul’s Place up for sale at £25.3m Chancerygate starts a £19m small-unit industrial scheme in Bredbury, Stockport JV North wins £95m from Homes England for 792 homes, 83% at social rent Wyre reopens the Hillhouse Enterprise Zone masterplan, with hydrogen and data centres in view Business distress in the Humber is up 26%, while Yorkshire and the North East ease Leeds spinout adsilico raises £10m to test heart implants on AI virtual patients Concretene raises £4.5m to make graphene from Manchester’s sewage gas Bury gets £10m for its indoor market as the council winds up Six Town Housing Blog Liverpool’s Littlewoods film studio gets £20m from the Budget Home Leeds station gets a £303m upgrade, with £200m added in the Budget Lancashire is getting a county-wide mayor, with the first election in 2028 The Budget gives Northern mayors 20% of business rates and a share of income tax The North Weekly, 18 September 2026: Peel forces a bid, Harworth changes shape, and a Sheffield firm ships worldwide Capital&Centric is paying artists for two large murals in Sheffield A former BT building in South Shields is becoming 125 student beds Manchester’s Portico Library wins £6.4m of Lottery money towards a £12m expansion Sunderland Museum’s £13.6m transformation moves towards construction Plans are in for BRIT North, a performing arts school in Bradford The North Weekly, week to 30 August 2026: the week the money actually landed Preston mosque plans a 10,000 sq ft community centre under its car park Halifax’s Square Chapel is for sale, a decade after a £6.6m refurbishment Hull’s bomb-damaged National Picture Theatre reopens after 85 years Oliver Cookson is building a £60m Hilton hotel on the old Shena Simon campus A packaging firm takes 198,000 sq ft at Ellesmere Port Legal & General is building 200,000 sq ft of offices at Ralli Quays Work starts on 104 homes at Great Houghton in Barnsley Taylor Wimpey’s £133m Yarm scheme goes to a planning inquiry Knowsley approves the Grace Park overhaul, plus 88 affordable homes at Halsnead A 153-flat Manchester tower is waiting on permission, with a £27.4m GMCA loan behind it Grainger proposes £60m and 300 flats on Chester’s old Linenhall stables Leeds moves to expand its Seacroft diagnostics centre 218 affordable homes proposed on a former Swinton toy factory Tritax buys 40 acres in St Helens for an 8.2m sq ft logistics scheme Peel is selling a Salford Quays office for £9m while bidding £600m for Harworth Greater Manchester puts another £163m through the Good Growth Fund Sheffield’s MyAutobot is now answering restaurant phones inside Eat App Harworth is quitting residential and cutting £7.4m of costs Peel now owns 30% of Harworth, and that forces a bid Hull Royal Infirmary gets a £7.5m care coordination centre, starting next month Willmott Dixon starts a £40m overhaul of Princes Exchange in Leeds Strata picks Adderstone for civils on its first North East site, 248 homes at Spennymoor Middlesbrough weighs a town centre strategy built on 2,000 homes and a theatre Scape opens an £8bn construction framework, and Northern contractors should be looking at it NG Bailey is back at the top of the UK M&E rankings on £706.7m turnover Liverpool tries again to sell 85,000 sq ft of empty offices for £3.25m Bruntwood expands its Altrincham workspace by 14,200 sq ft after a lettings surge Scout Moor II comes back with twelve turbines instead of seventeen