Julia Hatmaker

Michelle Richardson comes to the Edinburgh-headquartered building consultancy armed with an arsenal of experience in delivering high-profile and complicated developments, including the remodelling of the AO Arena in Manchester and the building of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and University of Manchester’s nuclear research facility in Cumbria.

Together Housing Group has acquired two plots totalling 1.3 acres from Blackburn with Darwen Council as it pushes forward with its regeneration of the Shadsworth housing estate.

Fans of the football team, which is owned by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, could be cheering from an all-new 7,750-capacity stand during the 2026/27 season now that a pre-construction services agreement has been signed.

Tristan Saunders has joined the development and construction consultancy’s Salford office as director of project management, while Chris Allsop has been promoted to director of quantity surveying at the firm’s Preston base.

Cladding remediation and retrofit initiatives are on the agenda for the housing association, with the latest bond supporting its efforts to upgrade its portfolio of 75,700 homes.

Barry Cleminson has joined the global real estate consultancy’s Manchester office, where he will help grow its division focussed on assisting in the delivery and optimisation of medical facilities.

Costs roughly doubled for the Wirral Council-led endeavour, going from £12m to £24m over the course of a year and a half. Now, an internal audit report has outlined where it all went wrong.

A £6m infusion into the Bee Network will support a round of business cases for the expansion of the Metrolink system as well as initial feasibility work on a central subway.

Current projects will be completed, but the Warrington contractor will refrain from taking on new work as it effectively concludes its £136m-turnover new-build housing business.

Bruntwood and Trafford Council have finished work on the street, which offers more than 86,000 sq ft of retail and leisure space.