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Consortium project to speed up housing delivery

Scheme aims to deliver 120,000 low-cost homes per year
Inland Homes losses now set to hit £91m

Losses at troubled Inland Homes to top £90m

In a trading update released in September of last year, the housebuilder forewarned that losses would total £37.1 million as it began...
Plans in for BBC’s new home in Birmingham

Detailed plans for BBC’s new Birmingham home

Specific plans have been presented for the BBC's new Birmingham location in a historic building in Digbeth. Several of the editorial teams for the...
Construction leaders approached Boris to save UK construction industry

Construction leaders approached Boris to save UK construction industry

Construction leaders have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on a demand to immediate action on the protection of construction industry. Construction leadersmentioned that...
Wolverhampton picks McLaughlin & Harvey for £50m campus

McLaughlin & Harvey picked to build £50m Wolverhampton learning campus

The City of Wolverhampton has selected McLaughlin & Harvey as its top construction partner for a new educational campus in the city centre. The...

Aberdeen contractor fined after two fall into uncovered hatch

An electrical contractor has been fined £24,000 after two people were injured falling through an uncovered floor hatch at a residential property.

Wates Appoints Former Bouygues Chief as Managing Director for Residential Division

Phillippa Prongué is set to assume the role of Executive Managing Director for Wates' housing business at the start of the New...

£160k fines after demolition worker burned

Two companies have been fined £80,000 each after a worker received serious electrical burns during demolition work.
North Hykeham Relief Road

£200m Lincolnshire ring road bypass approved

The North Hykeham Relief Road is set to connect the A46 Pennells Roundabout to the Lincoln Eastern Bypass, completing a ring-road encircling...
Green light for first carbon capture power station in UK

Shapps gives the go-ahead for UK’s first carbon capture power station

The government approved plans to build a 910MW combined cycle gas turbine power station with a carbon capture and compression unit adjacent...
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