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Following its innovative three year partnership with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, New Care’s Bramhall Manor care centre is now fully open and welcoming private residents from the local area. Completed in March 2020, the £15 million facility was commissioned in its entirety by Stockport NHS … [Read more...]

There’s a major revitalisation taking place in the Underbanks, an up-and-coming neighbourhood in the often underrated town of Stockport, and investors are beginning to spot the opportunities. At one stage, peripheral towns around major cities often had reputations for being fairly run down, less … [Read more...]

New data released by property website, Rightmove, has revealed that house sales agreed are back to March 2019 levels, with sales of flats 10% up on pre-Covid levels. Sales agreed between sellers and buyers are now just 1% behind levels last seen before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019. The recovery … [Read more...]

Great Places Housing Group has submitted plans to build 144 high-quality affordable homes in the Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC) Town Centre West regeneration area. The proposals for the £34 million development on Chestergate will be the housing provider's second site in the MDC … [Read more...]

Stockport has been hailed as one of the North-west's seven Best Places to Live in the annual Sunday Times Best Places to Live guide. The annual list ranked Liverpool as the top location in the region, but also praised Stockport among 72 towns and cities across Great Britain and Northern Ireland. … [Read more...]

Stockport Council's Planning & Highways Regulation Committee has been recommended to approve plans for 73 rent-to-buy apartments in the town centre. Proposals were first lodged by Great Places Housing Group in September 2022 for the scheme that would see a block of 73 affordable homes built … [Read more...]

Stockport law firm, SAS Daniels, is lending its support to the inaugural National Conveyancing Week, taking place from 20th to 24th March. National Conveyancing Week is a nationwide initiative aiming to shine a light on the role of conveyancers in the home moving process. It has been launched to … [Read more...]

The government has launched a technical consultation on plans to increase planning fees for major developments by 35%; a 25% increase is proposed for other applications. The government's plans aim to improve the performance of local authority planning departments by increasing their funding … [Read more...]