News @ FU7URE https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Blog Home 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 Leeds moves to expand its Seacroft diagnostics centre Hull Royal Infirmary gets a £7.5m care coordination centre, starting next month Willmott Dixon starts a £40m overhaul of Princes Exchange in Leeds 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 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 Places for People takes on 3,300 student homes at Manchester’s £530m Owens Park Newcastle United buys a 260-acre estate for £190m and a new academy Downing refinances £250m in Manchester, and the lender is the story Prospect tests the water on 103 homes at Maghull St Helens refusal heads to appeal as Breck and Northern Trust set a date Gleeson wants 165 homes on South Lakes land set aside for jobs Bellway lodges plans for 170 homes at Brayton, near Selby Barnsley set to approve 340 homes across two schemes Bradford approves 100 homes at Wilsden, and the grey belt rules are what got it through TfGM starts a £100m programme to make seven stations step-free, beginning at Swinton Stockport is ready to force Stagecoach off a bus depot to protect £41m of public funding Manchester has approved the Crumpsall SEND school after all. The travel plan did it Peel is not backing off. Now it is attacking Harworth’s numbers 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 Hull’s bomb-damaged National Picture Theatre reopens after 85 years Plans are in for BRIT North, a performing arts school in Bradford Strata picks Adderstone for civils on its first North East site, 248 homes at Spennymoor Oliver Cookson is building a £60m Hilton hotel on the old Shena Simon campus NG Bailey is back at the top of the UK M&E rankings on £706.7m turnover Scout Moor II comes back with twelve turbines instead of seventeen 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 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