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PLANS to transform the former University of Law Campus in Chester into a new residential development have been given the go ahead, despite concerns…

Controversial proposals to build 1,100 homes in rural Penwortham have been ripped apart and rejected by councillors.

Controversial proposals to build 1,100 homes in rural Penwortham have been rejected - and rubbished - by councillors.

Releasing a 133-page report on 10 June, the House of Commons committee urged the Government to proceed with caution and do more research before progressing the Planning Bill. It noted that public policy think tank the Smith Institute said Jenrick’s white paper is more of a green paper – filled with discussion points rather than detail. Most importantly, the committee wants a draft planning bill to be released for pre-legislative scrutiny. REPORT HIGHLIGHTS  Opposition is brewing. Some back...

Sarah Townsend Ex-Avison Young director Jon Suckley has set up an independent planning consultancy based in Manchester and serving clients working across the North West. He left Avison Young earlier this year after three years as senior director in the Manchester planning team and told Place North West there is a gap in the market for “new and agile” boutique consultancy. “The last 12 months have been an unprecedented and challenging time for everyone, but now is the time to embrace cha...

Sarah Townsend Avison Young’s Manchester-based planning principal Jon Suckley has left the company to launch an independent planning consultancy, and Richard Barton is now heading up the department. Barton, also a planning principal in the Manchester office of the property services firm, has assumed full responsibility for the planning division, which Avison expanded with the acquisition of GVA in February 2019. GVA in turn had acquired boutique consultancy HOW Planning the previous year, an...

23 Dec 2020, 09:00 This summer there was no European Championship football or Olympic Games to distract us from the news, but at least nobody was talking about tiers. In July, a celebrity chef withdrew plans to open a restaurant in Salford while an outspoken developer gave planning committee members a piece of his mind. Byrne was due to open Blackfriar in Salford BRIDGES BYRNED …Celebrity chef Aiden Byrne has pulled out of a project to reopen Salford’s Blackfriars pub, a £2m scheme by deve...