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What will happen if planning can no longer be blamed for the lack of viability in housing schemes? Plus: Greater Manchester’s game of Cluedo and office-to-resi pivots

Viability gaps are killing the North’s growth prospects. Place’s Mind the Gap aims to spur the government into providing meaningful grant support to unlock stalled schemes. Read on to find out why the industry is behind us.

Tickets for Place North’s 2025 events are selling fast and with new events launched this year, now is the time to check you aren’t missing out on anything – for the first time, we are also offering a 50% discount on tickets for local authorities and housing associations.

Whisper it, but against a backdrop of economic doom and gloom, could the slow pace of the Northern property market’s lower prices be its secret power? Plus: Socially minded pension funds and dead cats.

In its push to achieve housing targets, the government wants to lower the cost of CPOs – but will this well-trodden path be effective? Plus: the differing fortunes of speculative offices and data centres.

Despite delays to the promised government reforms on planning, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has outlined ambitions to bring back regional spatial strategies. Plus: rent controls and Manchester offices.

For a second consecutive year, the prolific regeneration company has teamed up with Place North to support and showcase its growing pipeline of transformational projects across the patch.