Plans for a park within one of Europe’s largest regeneration programmes have been approved by Leeds City Council.

The logistics sector has the potential to add £20.9bn a year to the economy in the north of England by 2039 under a “transformational growth scenario”, according to data by logistics developer Tritax Symmetry and planning and development consultancy Turley.

The developer behind a new business park next to Newcastle International Airport has appointed a team of planning, communications and commercial property experts for the site.

Tritax Big Box has let a 151,388 sq ft warehouse in Doncaster to pet feed business Butternut Box.

Game developer Ubisoft Reflections has signed a 10-year lease to take a further 14,730 sq ft at Partnership House in Newcastle at around the quoting rent of £15 sq/ft.

Octopus Real Estate has provided a £18.3m loan secured against a former National Grid site in York.

AEW and Allianz Real Estate have acquired aogistics facility in Yorkshire on behalf of several Allianz group companies.

The government housing agency Homes England is relocating its north-east office to Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Works on a new 120-bed hotel in Sunderland which will stand in the city centre’s Keel Square has received the green light.

Reditum Capital has arranged a £10m bridging facility with The High Street Group for the development of a prime residential project in the centre of Newcastle.