Manchester City Council news

English Premier league club, Manchester City, has submitted a planning application seeking to expand the capacity at its Etihad Stadium from 53,400 to 60,000. Designed ... More

A £186m cultural centre, set to transform the arts and music scene globally, will open its doors in June this year. Factory International, based in ... More

Andy King, chair of Manchester's GM Active, has taken the role of CEO at non-profit MCR Active. King brings more than twenty years of sports ... More

New images have been released of what will become the first new public park in Manchester, UK, in more than 100 years. Called Mayfield Park, ... More

ASM Global has revealed plans to increase the capacity at its Manchester Arena venue to 24,000. As well as an increase to capacity, the initial ... More

Sports stadiums and large entertainment venues could soon be forced to implement airport-style security checks, after the government offered its backing to the controversial "Martyn's ... More

Australia, Canada and Malaysia will rival the UK as potential hosts for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. David Grevemberg CBE, chief executive of the Commonwealth Games ... More

Factory, the flagship arts building for the north of England designed by Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has been granted planning approval by ... More

Maria Balshaw, director of Manchester’s Whitworth art gallery, will be named Sir Nicholas Serota’s replacement as Tate director. Balshaw has held her position as director ... More

Several sport and leisure facilities in Manchester, such as the National Cycling Centre, Taekwondo Centre and Squash Centre, may be forced to share back office ... More

Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from the announcement of the world’s best building to new projects for OMA, ... More

Three flagship Taekwondo competitions will be staged in England over the next three years following a successful bid from GB Taekwondo. The package of events, ... More

A new purpose-built baseball facility is being lined up for Manchester, and could be complete before the end of next year according to the sport’s ... More

GB Taekwondo has received backing from UK Sport as it bids to host three major events over the next three years. Manchester is at the ... More

A 200-bed five star hotel and 30,000sq ft (2,800sq m) of leisure space will dominate the latest architectural project being developed by former Manchester United ... More

Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has won an international competition to design a cutting-edge arts venue in the UK city of Manchester. Nine ... More

Singapore-based real estate and investment company Rowsley – controlled by billionaire Peter Lim – has acquired a 75 per cent stake in Hotel Football in ... More

Hough End Leisure Centre in Manchester is officially open for business as Manchester City Council continues to modernise its leisure provision. Hough End Leisure Centre ... More

ISG has started work on the £11m Belle Vue Sports Village development in Manchester, which will bring two international standard facilities to the north west ... More

A new £9m leisure centre developed by Manchester City Council in partnership with Manchester City Football Club (MCFC) and Sport England has opened its doors ... More

The owner of Manchester City Football Club (MCFC) is to lead a £1bn housing regeneration project in east Manchester, UK, which is hoped to prove ... More

Manchester City Council looks set to follow an invest to save rationale to meet its spending cut targets, by closing three ageing facilities and developing ... More

Birmingham’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community has opened a new sports and fitness studio at the Health and Wellbeing Centre on Holloway Centre ... More

Plans to transform part of East Manchester with new sports and community facilities have been granted council approval, with work due to begin later this ... More

Manchester City Council has revealed plans for a national home for both speedway and basketball, as part of the £10m Belle Vue Sports Village development. ... More