Dan Whelan
A 90-apartment scheme next to the former Royal Osborne Theatre on Oldham Road in Manchester is the developer’s second project in the area.
Elsewhere in Collyhurst, Cert Property completed the 28-apartment POPworks scheme in 2019. A planning application for the Oldham Road project, known as Osborne Yard, has now been approved by Manchester City Council and is to be delivered in partnership with Heatley Developments.
The apartments at Osborne Yard, designed by Elevate Architects, will feature generous outdoor space, bold interiors and innovative carbon reduction technology, according to the developer.
The scheme is to sit next to the former Royal Osborne Theatre, which was home to acid house club The Thunderdome and demolished in 2010.
Dan Whelan
The developer is to occupy 4,200 sq ft at Hilton House, an office block it bought in 2017 and has recently refurbished, moving from Royal Mills in Ancoats.
Cert Property Group’s move from The Courtyard at Royal Mills to the 30,000 sq ft Hilton House follows the sale of its former head office to Manchester City Council in 2019, and aims to provide the company with additional space for its growing team, which currently stands at 30 employees.
“Moving into Hilton House was the perfect move for us,” said Howard Lord, managing director of Cert Property.
“We have all fallen in love with the building during the course of the redevelopment of it. We’ve made our floor our own and it has given us the opportunity to set out what we believe the post-pandemic office looks and feels like.”
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Enjoy your low-key (meditative?) and uncrowded Christmas. Then let’s especially celebrate New Year’s Day, with the likelihood that science will end the COVID-19 nightmare over the next six months. Like the weather, COVID cases will probably worsen in the next few weeks, but as spring is coming, so the pandemic will be going.
Perhaps some lonely people won’t feel so bad this Christmas since so many more people than usual will be alone this Christmas. Indeed, to be alone seems to be the patriotic in-thing.
Christmas brings out silly memories. A couple of mine are that my father, a pretty good amateur musician, hated Irving Berlin’s 1942 song “White Christmas,’’ with its melancholic nostalgia for something that wasn’t quite real, because it was all in the key of C, and as the years rolled by he stopped wrapping presents, of which they were many, and just stuck the stuff in brown paper bags.
15 Dec 2020, 10:25
In the second in a series of interviews with the region’s place makers for the Christmas period,
Place North West asks Becca Heron, Wigan Council’s director of economy and skills, about her cool Brazilian hobby and what keeps her up at night.
Why did you choose a career in property?
I didn’t, really. I started my career as a democratic services officer at Hyndburn Council, but then I moved into research and ended up supporting the Housing Market Renewal Programme across Manchester and Salford. That’s how I started to understand place-shaping, and the interventions required to drive change. I spent a long time working for the GMCA [Greater Manchester Combined Authority], which gave me a good understanding of economic drivers. Now I’m loving putting some of that into practice in Wigan to drive real change.