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Many areas of the North West are set for their own major regeneration schemes over the coming years. One of the most ambitious is that in Salford with the a budget of £650m, but Macclesfield too had its own plans. These included the construction of 50 retail units including a Debenhams store as well as [...]

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Salford’s Chapel street is now set to receive a huge face lift as the council approves its biggest regeneration plans ever for the city. The £650m budget set for the project will include the creation of 864 homes, as well as a range of hotels, leisure facilities and offices. In all the regeneration will cover [...]

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Enterprise Leaders in the North West have been busy drawing up plans for how best to spend their budget, in the North West region over the next twenty years. The budget which is made up of billions of pounds of public money is set to regenerate the region, but it appears that the current blueprints [...]

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£220m Development Plan for Blackpool

An application has been submitted by Muse Developments for a £220m development plan to regenerate the North East area of Blackpool town. If permission is granted the regeneration plan will encompass the building of new offices covering 914,600 sq ft, as well as supermarket and a range of shops, hotels, cafes and restaurants. Blackpool council [...]

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Regeneration vs recession

So we currently keep hearing about this lovely recession and how we all need to watch what we are spending, as we are still a long way from getting out of it.  But what sort of impact does it have on re-genration ? Do we just stop developing as a country, or is this merely [...]

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Olympics are coming

So the Olympics are getting closer and London still seems a long way off from being a host city.  Yes, there is lots of positives about the city and we have a great infrastructure, but are the sports facilities on par with what we saw in Beijing ?? I think its going to take a [...]

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Are we still in Recession?

It has been a good few months now since we have heard anything made public about the Recession and many are starting to ask the question whether or not we are still in it. Personally I think the economy must be rising now otherwise it would be all over the news and papers and all [...]

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Manchester tourism Awards

Once a year many people gather together for the Manchester Tourism Awards 2009 these where held earlier this year and I thought it would be good to make people aware of some of those who won the awards. These are some prestigious awards and is a privilege to have one of the reasons so many [...]

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The UK’s first women’s international centre for economic development is to launch in Liverpool. The centre will combine incubation space and gendered enterprise support with a research hub that will develop a global community in the field of women’s enterprise. The centre will be the first in the world to draw the three elements together [...]

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Average price rises since 2007

The average price of new homes in the UK rose in the third quarter for the first time since 2007, according to data from Nationwide Figures released on Friday by the building society found a new UK home was about £164,000, compared with £158,000 in the previous quarter. The new-build market peaked two years ago, [...]

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