Green light for Lion Works in Sheffield

The Combined Authority’s draft Mayor’s Local Transport Plan sets out a blueprint for improving connectivity across the region as it prepares to support the creation of 60,000 new homes over the next decade. 

There is still time to join us on 10 September at the South Yorkshire Development Update, where you will hear from public and private sector figures such as Sheffield’s Kate Martin, SYMCA’s Abbie Miladinovic, Mark Edwards of Capital&Centric, and Julian Stott of Peel Land, as well as panel discussions on the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport and regeneration across the region’s cities and towns.

The electrical transformer equipment manufacturer has bought Network House on Middleton Grove, close to its existing base off Westland Square in Beeston.

The flexible workspace provider has completed the redevelopment of a former NHS building at the Leeds business estate into an 8,700 sq ft serviced office facility.

Manchester-based investor and developer Consolidated Property Group has applied to Leeds City Council for the redevelopment of the riverside office, looking to almost double its size. 

As the North gears up for more devolved powers and placemaking activity, Place Yorkshire caught up with the global head of the Humanise campaign as she makes the case for putting character, identity, and human experience alongside the numbers. 

Forward-thinking companies ready to build business connections, raise brand profile, and gather market intel on the Midlands, North West, Yorkshire, and North East will find ample opportunities to do so via the 2027 Place Media Group events calendar.

Refurbished to the tune of £6.6m a decade ago but closed since early 2025, offers are invited for the grade two-listed Square Chapel.

Working with the rail body’s property company Platform4, contractor Willmott Dixon has started on a £40m upgrade of the 108,000 sq ft Princes Exchange.