The Peel Ocean Gateway Economic Impact Assessment release earlier this month gives an insight to some of the major achievements of this development and regeneration strategy: 1. Capital investment – £2,075 million of capital investment – of which Peel has contributed over £955 million (current or nominal prices); 2. Temporary employment effects – some 12,980…
Manchester City Council, Ask Developments and Wates see the Topping Out ceremony for the cultural centrepiece of the First Street Development: http://tinyurl.com/n7cjmw9
Peel Group and Wirral Metropolitan College announce a new campus at the heart of the Wirral Waters regeneration scheme. http://tinyurl.com/qgev6la
The Celotex Double Decker is in Nottingham – are you up to date with the Part L changes? http://tinyurl.com/p7o6t9o
More good news for the North East of England today with this city centre regeneration scheme which will attract more students to the area, bring in 120 new jobs and provided a much needed platform from which to drive further urban regeneration. http://tinyurl.com/njh97d4
This is Money has a fascinating piece looking at the tensions between the 39 Local Enterprise Partnerships set up by the Coalition in 2010 as bidding starts for a share in the Government’s £2bn scheme. This is not hardly the joined up, collaborative approach to regneration envisaged when the LEPs first emerged blinking into the…
Another local political headache emerging from the plans for progress with HS2 announced in Sir David Higgins’ recent report. Notwithstanding the indication of the establishment of a Hub in Crewe as prt of the North West link, residents along the likely route (in this instance in Warburton and Hale Barnes are no nearer knowing he…
Readers will recall that BUILT posted recently on the MMU proposal to collaborate with local educational institutions to establish a High Speed Rail College in Crewe in response to Sir David Higgins’ proposal that an HS2 hub should be based there. Now we have a challenger – Stoke-on-Trent is mobilising Keele University to to support…
Estates Gazette suggests that MCFC’s ownership may be considering investing in the regeneration of housing around the Stadium and adjacent to the new Football Academy development. http://tinyurl.com/n7f3tql
Following on our post congratulating County Durham on securing significant inward investment in the rail sector recently, Mecaplast is another success. The NELEP funding is part of a £6m investment package which has resulted in 85 new local jobs as the car parts business develops and grows to meet the needs of its customers, such…
