Category: Client News

Manchester-based developer, Generation Ltd, has submitted a planning application for 27 new build residential apartments at the former Bull’s Head site on Chester Road which closed in the early 1990’s and burnt down in 2012. In an off-market deal, Generation purchased the site earlier this year and is advanced in discussions on a number of…

Plans in Stoke-on-Trent, shortlisted for the City of Culture 2021, have been approved to build two high quality 11-storey apartment blocks at Genr8 Developments’ Smithfield mixed use development. The apartment blocks have been specifically designed as ‘build to rent’. Genr8 is working in partnership with city council owned housing company, Fortior Homes, which will own…

Manchester-based developer, Generation Ltd, has appointed Patrick Ross to help deliver the company’s expanding development portfolio. Patrick’s role will be to source and bring forward new development opportunities. Formerly Head of Business Development for Southway Housing, Patrick established the company’s first ever development and acquisition programme in south Manchester and led their creation of a…

Plans for a £12.5m Veterans Care Village at Broughton House in Salford have been approved (meeting held Thursday 21st September). Broughton House is the only home for ex-servicemen and women in the north west and in 2016 celebrated its centenary. Plans for the new village were submitted to Salford City Council in July 2017 following…

Cavendish Property Developments has appointed Manchester based retail agent Impey to its Summers Quay development in Stalybridge, east Manchester. Impey’s appointment will see them market the 2,637 sq ft (245 sq m) of ground floor, commercial, retail leisure space at the £8 million private “build to rent” regeneration development. Summers Quay is the first, and…

Generation Ltd’s plans for a residential development on Brunswick Street close to Manchester city centre have been approved. New Brunswick, as the development has been named, is a block of 16 apartments, where some have already been bought by local buyers, is scheduled to start on site before the end of the year. The construction…

The Derwent Group has signed Oak Furniture Land and Pure Gym in the final two units at its Junction One Retail Park, Bidston Moss in Wallasey, Wirral. Oak Furniture Land signed at Unit 8 (9,907 sq ft) and the final Unit 9 of 7,201 sq ft has been let to Pure Gym. These deals are…

Plans have been unveiled to build two 11-storey ‘build to rent’ apartment blocks in the city centre – the first development of its kind in Stoke-on-Trent. A public consultation has today (Monday, July 31) been launched about the proposed residential development at Smithfield, which will be delivered by developer Genr8 in partnership with the city…

Former Arcadis Partner Stuart Dick has joined Genr8 as the Manchester based developer prepares to deliver more than £100 million of development over the next two years. Construction is expected to start in October at Rochdale Riverside, Genr8’s 200,000 sq ft retail and leisure scheme. This week the company also received a reserved matters planning…