Retail park planned for Derby scrubland plot

Towns and cities in seven West Midlands areas could receive a boost under an initiative designed to tackle ‘hollowed out high streets’.

The Midlands is seeing a real shift towards a reuse first strategy – and reusing existing buildings could unlock significant cost, carbon and regeneration benefits, according to Curtins’ Birmingham business unit director Andy Godber.

All-electric metro trains could be coming to the Shropshire town, with the local authority considering spending £150,000 on developing a link between Telford Central and Ironbridge.

Work has begun to knock down four shops on Park Street, part of a £40m ‘gateway’ scheme to regenerate the area around the town’s rail and bus stations.

A Solihull-based flooring firm has snapped up a Northamptonshire logistics warehouse as part of its ongoing expansion.

Building costs on a delayed housing scheme in Stoke-on-Trent are set to rise by around £600,000, the city council says.

The Yorkshire-based developer and land owner told shareholders to take no action in the wake of Peel Holdings’ unexpected offer to take full ownership of the listed company, paying 172.5p per share.

Hereford’s long-awaited western ring road has moved forward, after a full business case was published for the first phase of the project.

Plans to knock down a 1960’s-era industrial unit to provide more car parking for officers at Longton Police Station have been submitted to Stoke-on-Trent city council.