Vistry teams up with Thirteen in Beverley

The 70,000 sq ft grade A office development is in the Monks Cross area.

The real estate giant has promoted 12 of its staff across its York and Leeds offices.

The contractor has started work on a £3m project to overhaul the Maple Ward mental health facility at the Longley Centre.

Plans for upper floor residential at Vicar Lane and 400 apartments at Aire Park have been greenlit, but a decision was deferred on homes at the gateway junction of Wellington Road and Armley Road.

A package of investments have been signed off by the first meeting of the Hull & East Yorkshire Combined Authority.

WSP’s head of digital innovation, Dale Sinclair, sat down with Place North’s Sally Gibson at MIPIM to discuss how the company’s kit-of-parts approach is improving construction productivity and efficiency.

Securing the space at the refurbished 8 Park Row, the organisation will use it for an international study centre to be run in conjunction with the University of Leeds.

Positive steps taken towards reinvigorating housebuilding by the government nine months into its term are not to be sniffed at – but does the ambition match the reality on the ground? Place North’s MIPIM breakfast conference focused on this topic with a panel of private and public sector experts.

Place Yorkshire caught up with Jill Goodman, principal at Avison Young, at MIPIM to talk about the Leeds office market, and prominent trends and themes both at home and in Cannes.