West Midlands will take £20bn pipeline to MIPIM ’27

Activewear brand AYBL will relocate its main offices from Redditch, after snapping up the 21,000 sq ft former St James’s Place building on Blythe Valley Business Park.

Up to 800 homes, a local centre, and land set aside for a primary school form the basis of a large urban extension project to the north of Telford, according to plans filed by Gladman Developments.

Proposals to convert a historic former Stoke-on-Trent civic building into 39 apartments have been recommended for refusal by planning officers – who say the heritage damage would be too great.

The upper floors of a former Chesterfield department store will become 40 residential flats after plans put forward by ALB Group were approved.

The firm has been brought in by Frasers Group to oversee the 170,000 sq ft retail site in South Normanton.

Work is set to begin this summer on a £59m civic and leisure building in South Derbyshire, around six weeks after the project got the go ahead from council planning officers.

BAM Construction has lodged proposals for a 1,000-pupil secondary school on the former Reedswood municipal golf course in Walsall.

Waterman Group has bolstered its leadership team in the Midlands, appointing Jonathan Purcell as managing director of strategy and growth.

Work has now begun on a retirement development in Warwickshire, after the combined authority stumped up £660,000 to clean up the site where a historic former pub once stood.