Authority says mill clearance will pave way for housing schemes

An old mill in Heywood will be demolished to make way for Heywood’s regeneration.

Regent Mill is an industrial complex rather than the typical historic cotton mill you see dominating the skylines of Rochdalian towns. But the bulldozing of this deteriorating building on St James Street could unlock a wider vision for Heywood.

Rochdale council, who are carrying out the demolition work, say they hope to bring forward plans to build around 200 new homes in this area of the town.

These homes are expected to be more affordable homes. No timeline for when this could happen has been set out.

Once the former tile merchant has been levelled, it would facilitate housing schemes to come forward, according to the local authority. This would link into Heywood’s ongoing regeneration.

A fresh new Heywood Civic has already been completed. This has been accompanied by the makeover to Peine Square on the Civic’s doorstep.

Some £20m of the government’s Pride in Place funding is currently being spent, with grant applications for local businesses expected to be open soon. This would bring further cash directly to local organisations to better the area.

Coun Danny Meredith, cabinet member for regeneration and housing at Rochdale Borough Council, said: “The demolition of Regent Mill is part of the wider regeneration of this part of Heywood, as part of our masterplan. This will see us work with partners to transform brownfield sites around the town centre into new, high-quality much needed social homes for local people.

“Over time, we hope to bring forward more than 200 homes on and around the Regent Mill area. So where we now have empty sites, which are not visually appealing, we will have fantastic new homes to help address our housing shortage and give the whole area a lift.

“We have already seen considerable regeneration within Heywood town centre and this project will continue this redevelopment and further support local families.”

There are some concerns about the demolition work raised by highways teams. Highways explained that recent demolitions of properties in this area ‘have caused damage to highways surfaces causing significant risk to pedestrians’.

Planning papers described how the council intends to fence off the demolition site, including debris netting and site signage to protect pedestrians and the roads.

Michael Perich
CEO & MD

Good morning, and welcome to the presentation for the full year results for Noumi Limited for the financial year of 2026. I’m Michael Perich, Group CEO. And today, I’m joined by Noumi Chair, Genevieve Gregor, and I’d like to welcome our Group CFO, Iain Short, for his first call for Noumi.

It’s a pleasure to be with you today, and thank you for joining the call. We’ve uploaded the relevant materials to the ASX. You can navigate to the slides as you choose or follow on the screen. [Operator Instructions]

I will focus on the overview of the results and discuss the key elements of the progress of the company during the year. This will be followed by our strategy for the upcoming period. Iain will follow with the financial performance for the period, followed by closing remarks. Genevieve will take you through the Scheme Implementation Deed. We’ll then move to Q&A at the completion of the formal presentation.

The key messages for today’s call is, consistent execution of our strategy is delivering results. I’m proud of the progress we are making as we execute our plans, but there is more to do. As you will see in the results, FY ’26 is another year of consistent progress for Noumi with modest growth in revenue and underlying earnings, delivered alongside deliberate investment in brands, people and capabilities. These results were delivered in a challenging period with a number of external factors impacting the results.

Investments into our brands delivered revenue growth. Solid adjusted operating

Operator

Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Emeco Holdings Limited Full Year Results. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Ian Testrow, CEO and Managing Director. Please go ahead.

Ian Testrow
MD, CEO & Executive Director

Good morning, and thank you for joining the call. With me today are Theresa Mlikota, our Chief Financial Officer; and Stephanie Ottens, our General Manager, Investor Relations.

I’ll start by touching on our results and important highlights from this past financial year and also cover our strong history of returns, followed by our outlook for FY ’27. I’ll then provide further detail on our individual segment performance. Theresa will take you through the detailed financial results before I finish with a closing summary and an opportunity for questions.

I’ll open with safety as it’s our top priority. Our goal remains to operate a zero harm workplace and the engagement of every Emeco employee in the safe work practices is important to achieving this outcome. Our total recordable injury frequency rate decreased to 2.3 at the end of the financial year, reflecting continued progress in identifying risk, learning from incidents and driving ongoing improvement in workplace safety. Regrettably, we recorded 1 lost time injury during the year, a reminder that we can never be complacent on why leadership and continuous improvement in safety is so important.

On environment, this year marked a significant milestone in Emeco’s sustainability reporting, completing our first mandatory climate-related disclosures under the new legislative framework. Emeco’s operational greenhouse gas emissions remained low at 4,555 tonnes of CO2 equivalent and primarily relate to diesel consumption

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