Brownfield housing fund greenlit for Tees Valley, developers sought

The North East is represented on this year’s shortlist by MawsonKerr Architect’s restoration of the historic Walled Garden at Auckland Castle in County Durham.

The Combined Authority will formalise its loan procedures for the South Tees Development Corporation, replacing historic informal arrangements with agreements covering repayment terms, monitoring, and financial controls.

UK Land Estates has completed two drive-thru units for Greggs and Starbucks, bringing the redevelopment of the edge-of-city retail scheme to a close.

Appointed as principal contractor by the Big Yellow Construction Company, the firm will design and build the four-storey facility on Scotswood Road, creating 60,000 sq ft of net internal self-storage space.

Forward-thinking companies ready to build business connections, raise brand profile, and gather market intel on the Midlands, North West, Yorkshire, and North East will find ample opportunities to do so via the 2027 Place Media Group events calendar.

The Pride in Place funding will support regeneration projects in Percy Main, Chirton, and North Shields.

The reforms will allow strategic authorities to retain and spend a proportion of business rates from spring 2027, followed by a share of income tax revenues from 2028, and will replace the ring-fenced grants currently used to deliver local projects.

The development forms part of the council’s wider masterplan for land north of Burdon Lane and aligns with its Core Strategy and Development Plan.

£27m will be invested in the first phase of Hellen’s development on the outskirts of Darlington, delivering a mix of apartments, bungalows, and family houses as part of the wider 2,000-home scheme.