JustEat gets stuck into Sunderland

Vista Estates is looking to add two storeys to Craigton House in the town centre and convert the building into a 31-apartment block complete with top floor suites. 

Purcell is leading on the latest project on the museum and winter gardens, which will include a new visitor entrance, alterations to the 1960s roof, and public realm improvements. 

The council is looking to build up to 600 apartments and townhouses at the former industrial estate, in what will be the most populous area of the Riverside Sunderland scheme. 

The grade A office space on Newcastle’s Forth Banks has been taken by law firm Aberdein Considine, with Naylors Gavin Black as the agent on the deal. 

The 51-apartment McCarthy Stone scheme is set for the green light at the council’s meeting next week, despite being unable to offer affordable housing. 

Designed by GSS Architecture and now being built by Britcon, work on the £14.7m specialist engineering training centre in Thornaby is underway. 

Invest Newcastle supported 31 new companies establishing themselves in the area during the year ending 31 March, as well as nine business that expanded their operations, marking the second highest level since it began in 2013.

Newcastle City Council is set to greenlight the developer’s plans for a four-storey, 15-room development with a ground floor commercial unit, on the former Kelly’s Yard on Foundry Lane. 

Ørsted’s offshore wind farm will use the Teesworks site on the south bank of the River Tees to collect and store key components for its green energy ambitions, such as monopile foundations and secondary steel.