Development vital to unlocking North East’s potential

The joint venture has been appointed as design and build contractor for the extension and upgrade of the wastewater treatment works at Kelloe, County Durham.

Sadler Brown Group, the design firm responsible for masterplanning the Newcastle business park, has become the first occupier in the scheme’s second phase.

Ward Group Investments has acquired four buildings at Bowburn North Industrial Estate, a portfolio marketed at £4.5m.

The 600-capacity Farringdon Row facility features two “living walls” and adds parking capacity to the Riverside Sunderland regeneration 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.

The heritage advisory body has appointed Tom Frater to oversee planning advice, grants and listing across Yorkshire and the North East.

Hellens Group’s scheme, within Monkton Business Park South in South Tyneside, has a new tenant after the firm agreed a 10-year lease.

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust have signed a long-term lease for a 40,000 sq ft community diagnostic centre.

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