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Category: Business

Manchester Airport to invest £1 billion in long-haul upgrade

Manchester Airport has announced it will spend £1 billion to double its capacity as it seeks to compete with Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The 10-year plan will see...

2015 Salford Business Award winners announced

The winners of the 2015 Salford Business Awards have been announced. At the eighth annual awards, Weaste-based T and K Gallagher scooped the Large Business of the Year...

‘No need’ for £670k fees for £75m Adelphi Wharf, say council

Council planners have given permission for work to start on the first phase of the £75 million Adelphi Wharf development in Salford. But the developers successfully...

Countryside get another 54 New Broughton homes through planning

Warrington housebuilder Countryside Properties (UK) Ltd has won permission to build 54 two and three-bed houses on vacant scrubland in Broughton, Salford. The...

Countryside to turn Seedley Primary School into 60 homes

Council planners have passed proposals by housebuilders Countryside Properties (UK) Ltd for 60 homes on the site of a famous former primary school in Salford. Seedley...

£75m Adelphi Wharf in Salford recommended for approval

Council planners have no objections to a new development of 206 apartments proposed for the banks of the River Irwell as part of the £75 million Adelphi Wharf. Fortis...

Work starts on ‘experimental’ £20m Tomorrow tower at MediaCityUK

Work has started on a new 100,000 sq ft 10-storey tower at MediaCityUK in Salford. The £20m ‘Tomorrow’ building, by the Broadway Metrolink tram stop,...

KidzRUs expand into two new nurseries at Salford Quays and Irlam

Up to 100 new nursery places will be created when Swinton-based KidzRUs opens two new branches. The firm, which has two bases on Manchester Road and Hospital Road in...

Green light to convert Grade-II listed Monton schoolhouse into flats

Part of a Grade-II listed former schoolhouse is to be turned into luxury apartments in Monton. City planners have greenlit proposals by Cheshire-based European Property...

Salford SME conference aims to help local businesses grow and succeed

Businesspeople from Salford and across the North West met on Thursday 16 April at an all-day conference, organised by CIMA, the Chartered Institute of Management...