Dan Whelan

Manchester, Salford

Deputy Editor at Place North West

Deputy editor @PlaceNorthWest. Writing about the built environment 🏗️ 🏢 [email protected] Views are mine

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Articles

Kyndryl picks Royal Liver Building for AI hub

13 hours ago | placenorthwest.co.uk | Dan Whelan

The £16bn revenue digital infrastructure giant has taken an initial 15,000 sq ft at the historic Liverpool building, with the ambition of employing 1,000 staff across the city region over the next three years. Kyndryl’s Royal Liver Building letting is among the largest in Liverpool in recent years and indicates that the city can still attract large global firms despite a dearth of new-build office options.
Long-awaited Eccles care scheme gets another rework

13 hours ago | placenorthwest.co.uk | Dan Whelan

ForHousing has been trying to redevelop a gap site next to the College Court tower block for a decade. The latest iteration of the project is taller and has more homes than earlier proposals. The housing association has lodged a third application to redevelop the Fox Street site in Eccles, seeking permission from Salford City Council for a nine-storey block featuring 46 apartments.
Funding secured to unlock 70-home Croxteth estate regen

19 hours ago | placenorthwest.co.uk | Dan Whelan

The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has given Cobalt Housing a £1.6m grant to pave the way for the regeneration of the Stonedale Estate. The funding for the 70-home project comes from LCRCA’s Brownfield Land Fund, which is being deployed to get sites ready for redevelopment into up to 5,000 homes across the city region.
Castle Green proposes 340-home Warrington development

1 day ago | placenorthwest.co.uk | Dan Whelan

Spanning more than 50 acres, Thelwell Heys would feature 102 affordable properties in Grappenhall. Castle Green Homes has lodged plans to build 340 homes on a site bounded by Bridgewater Canal to the south and the Trans Pennine Trail to the north. Around 30 acres of the site, which is allocated for housing in Warrington’s local plan, will be developed.
GALLERY | Place Young Things April 2025

1 day ago | placenorthwest.co.uk | Dan Whelan

The Junction at Manchester Central was the venue for the first PYT shindig of the year, where more than 200 of the industry’s future leaders gathered to hone their networking skills. Another sold-out instalment of Place North West’s popular social for those in the early stages of their career saw developers, consultants, and designers mingle over good food and complementary drinks. Scroll down for a full gallery of images from the event and see if you can spot yourself.
McDonald’s tables plans for Rochdale return

1 day ago | placenorthwest.co.uk | Dan Whelan

Fourteen years after shutting its town centre restaurant, the fast-food chain has submitted an application to build a new one on Molesworth Street. McDonald’s’ formal request for planning permission for a 5,000 sq ft restaurant comes after the company consulted on its plans to return to Rochdale town centre last year. McDonald’s decision to shut its Yorkshire Street site in 2011 was held up as a sign of the high street’s failure. Thirteen years on, the restaurant is coming back to the town centre.
Kebab house to fill Lunya void

2 days ago | placenorthwest.co.uk | Dan Whelan

Great British Doner is set to occupy a unit in Barton Arcade in Manchester almost five years after the Catalan restaurant closed its doors to cut costs during the early days of the pandemic. Fit-out work is underway and the windows of the 3,643 sq ft unit are now adorned with Great British Doner branding, obscuring the interior of the restaurant that has lain empty since 2020. The signs bill GBD as ‚Äúthe ultimate doner experience‚ÄĚ.
Davos enters suburbs for first time with ‘high-end’ Sefton Park apartments

2 days ago | placenorthwest.co.uk | Dan Whelan

The TJ Morris-owned developer, which is partnering with Beetham on plans for a skyscraper cluster on Liverpool’s waterfront, has submitted plans for a more modest scheme south of the city centre. Davos Property Developments is seeking permission for its first foray into the city’s suburban housing market. The developer wants to construct a 34,000 sq ft building comprising 17 three-bedroom apartments off Ibbotson’s Lane to the east of Sefton Park.
Govt housing targets facing ‘substantial threat’ due to BTR hold-ups

2 days ago | placenorthwest.co.uk | Dan Whelan

Delays caused by the Building Safety Act, as well as the volatile economic climate, are contributing to a slowdown in starts for build-to-rent projects, according to a report. Research by the British Property Federation and Savills found that 17,000 BTR homes completed across the country between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025 but that starts on site were down 14%.
James Industrial proposes demolition of Blackburn Perspex site

2 days ago | placenorthwest.co.uk | Dan Whelan

The developer has requested permission to knock down Orchard Mill in Darwen. Bolton-based James Industrial is named on an application lodged with Blackburn with Darwen Council seeking consent to demolish the vacant buildings on the 6.4-acre former Perspex site off Duckworth Street. Perspex vacated the site as part of a consolidation of its estate. The firm is progressing plans to invest ÂŁ40m delivering a 13,000 sq ft extension at its Goose House Lane complex.