Sunderland to approve retirement homes

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. 

Knight Frank is the sole agent on the five-storey Bigg Market former office building, which has permission to be converted into 135 short-stay apartments. 

The council unanimously approved £40m plans for the redevelopment of the former Federation Brewery into a three-storey leisure facility with 102 hitting bays, a bar and restaurant, and rooftop terrace. 

Newcastle City Council looks set to approve the housebuilder’s plans for 42 affordable houses in Walker, in a scheme designed by Blake Hopkinson Architecture. 

All of the recent recruits will assist the planning consultancy’s senior team in preparing applications and supporting statements for the company’s clients in the residential and commercial sectors. 

The 59 houses in Guide Post in the south east of the county will be part of a wider 100-home development, with work due to complete by next summer.