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Kitchen and bedroom retailer Wren has revealed plans to create up to 500 new jobs in Barton-Upon-Humber following the successful purchase of the former Kimberly-Clark manufacturing plant. According to a news report in the local media, the company actually plans to transform the 180-acre site into Wren’s new head office, complete with a new customer service department, as well as warehousing, logistics and manufacturing facilities.

Development plans for more than 50,000 sq ft of employment space as well as residential properties near Cirencester have been forwarded to the Cotswold District Council, in a bid to redevelop the area and bring in more business and jobs. According to a report in the local media, the scheme, located on a 12-acre site, would include up to 100 properties and 53,000 sq ft of B1 employment space as well as associated infrastructure including new access from the A417 London Road.

Following a successful bid for a share of a £56m funding pot for the North West area, Manchester City Council plans to develop 200 new houses across the city, to meed the increasing demand for housing space.

The levels of industrial property adoption across the North-East area of the UK have literally sky-rocketed over the second quarter, reaching an impressive 610,000 sq ft. According to a recent market report on this matter, the boost is equivalent to an increase of around 126 per cent compared to the previous quarter, which is nothing short of impressive, to say the least.

Yorkshire Building Society, the UK’s second largest building society, has recently revealed plans to create no less than 100 new jobs in the Leeds and Bradford areas before the end of the year. According to a media report, the move follows a very solid set of financial results for the first half of 2013, the group revealing pre-tax profit of £80.1m in the six months to 30 June 2013, compared with £82.8m for the same period a year ago.

The financial services sector might create 265,000 more jobs across industries, including, and outside of, financial services, and lead to a GDP growth of 2-3 per cent in the UK by 2020, an analysis by the PwC revealed.

100 new jobs, including multiple manufacturing jobs, are set to be created by at the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars’ Goodwood plant in West Sussex, the company revealed recently.

Doncaster-based Thorndell Engineering, who manufactures a wide array of products, from gates and fences to steel frames for buildings, has just revealed plans to extend its staff after completing extension work on a brand-new £350,000 building. According to a report in the local media, the company, based at Kirk Sandall, employs 22 staff but it looking to take on five more now the new building is complete.

Manchester City FC plans to further extend the seating capacity of its Etihad Stadium and is now launching a public consultation into the project, aiming to actually submit a planning application by the end of 2013. As a news report in the media reveals, the Club wants to extend the stadium’s capacity by an impressive 10,000 seats, and in order to do so, it would have to redevelop the South Stand behind one of the goals, extending out by a further 16 metres, and also possibly the opposing North Stand.

According to a recent report by professional services firm KPMG, the number of workers placed in permanent positions across the North of England has literally sky-rocketed over the course of June, further proving the fact that the UK’s economy is recovering. The pace of expansion also accelerated to the quickest in six months and was the second fastest among all four English regions, behind the south. At the UK level, permanent staff appointments expanded at the quickest pace in over two years.

Hadrian Development Solutions Partnership, comprised of Two Castles Housing Association and Esh Group, has started construction work on ten new affordable homes located at a former Cumbria County Council depot in Sedbergh near Kendal. Worth a total of 1.4 million pounds, the housing development will include three two-bedroom bungalows as well as five two-bedroom and two three-bedroom townhouses for rent, a news report in the local media has revealed.

Famous toy retailer Modelzone is going through a pretty bad patch right now, given the fact that it recently went under administration, putting 400 jobs at risk.