All-clear for massive Howden project

Like so much else, student housing development is getting squeezed as inflation rises. Plus: Whitehall’s Northern transport snub and a booming hotel sector.

Long-held ambitions to deliver 1,150 homes and business space to the west of Scunthorpe can move forward after the firm exchanged contracts with site receiver Watling Real Estate.

The developer has lodged initial proposals for homes and public space at the Cannon Brewery site in Neepsend, Sheffield.

Contractor GMI has begun work on developer S Harrison’s 300-bedroom student accommodation scheme following the arrangement with Q Investment Partners.

This summer, are residential developments like build-to-rent going to flourish when all around wilts? Plus: cracks are forming around the public’s Green Belt consensus.

Calderdale Council is set to rubber-stamp an arrangement that will allow the housebuilder to start the delivery of 240 homes and a care facility.

Leeds and Manchester are on a par as the pension fund’s joint second biggest centres for build-to-rent investment outside London, with 1,000 units in each city. Dan Batterton, head of BTR at LGIM Real Assets, spoke to Paul Unger.

The contractor has been appointed to deliver the 500-home build to rent scheme at Whitehall Riverside, developed by Glenbrook and funded by Legal & General.

The first show home is now open at Latimer’s overhaul of the 1890s-built York factory, where 30% of the 279 homes will be classed as affordable.