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• Morgan Sindall to start Canning Town 800-home scheme

  13-10-2021 16:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall has got the go-head to start construction of phase one of a major 800-home scheme in Canning Town, East London.
  The construction go-ahead comes after a deal with developer partnership the English Cities Fund and Metropolitan Thames Valley housing association to take half the units as affordable homes.
  The Manor Road Quarter in the heart of Canning Town is being brought forward as a multi-block 2-acre linear park by ECF – a strategic joint venture between Muse Devel
  
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• M Group Services owner reports £40m underlying profit

  13-10-2021 13:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Minerva Equity, the holding company for infrastructure specialist contractor M Group Services, delivered a £40m underlying operating profit in the year to March 2021.
  The pre-exceptional and amortisation profit was down a third on the previous year but was described as a resilient performance by M Group Services chief executive Jim Arnold.
  M Group Services business performance was also supported by nearly £24m in covid job retention grants and  £29m in VAT paymen
  
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• Labourers left exposed to asbestos during shop refurb

  13-10-2021 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Bradford contractor  has been fined for safety breaches after labourers were exposed to asbestos after removing false ceiling tiles during a shop conversion in Hull.
  Beverley Magistrates’ Court heard that the company had not commissioned a refurbishment asbestos survey prior to the work commencing.
  Employees removed over 1000 m2 of asbestos insulation board ceiling tiles in an uncontrolled manner, exposing them to asbestos.An investigation by the HSE found that the company’s d
  
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• Firms on notice for £1.2bn Birmingham highways upkeep

  13-10-2021 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Birmingham Highways, the company formed to finance, rehabilitate, operate and maintain the city’s highways, is preparing to start the contest for a contractor to take on Amey Highways ill-fated project.
  The new subcontract should be worth up to £1.2bn running through to the expiry of the PFI deal in June 2035.
  Bidding is due to start for the mega-upkeep job in January, with a successful bidder named to start work in August 2023.Amey pulled out of the loss-making deal it signed last M
  
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• Construction output fall slows in August

  13-10-2021 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction’s ongoing supply chain issues saw output slip for the fifth-month running in August holding new work levels 3.7% below the pre-pandemic high watermark in February 2020.
  The small 0.2% fall in August was down to contraction of the refurbishment and maintenance sector with new work remaining flat at the same level as July.
  Government economists at the ONS said anecdotal evidence suggested supply chain issues were a key factor behind falling GDP.
  Many firms said that order books
  
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• Bolton splits with £1bn city regeneration plan developers

  13-10-2021 01:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bolton Council has parted ways with the developers behind its ambitious £1bn town centre regeneration plans.
  Developer Bolton Regeneration  – a partnership between Chinese firm Beijing Construction Engineering Group International (BCEGI) and regeneration specialists Granite Turner – have agreed with the council to rip up the agreement.
  A key part of the plan, the £250m redevelopment of Bolton’s Crompton Place Shopping Centre was due to start this year.
  Now the
  
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• Plans to go in for 2.8m sq ft Ilkeston warehouse park

  13-10-2021 00:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Verdant Regeneration will submit plans later this Autumn to redevelop the former Stanton Ironworks near Ilkeston in Derbyshire into a vast 2.8m sq ft warehouse park.
  The firm has just gone out to public consultation on its plan for the 200-acre site located near J25 of the M1 between Nottingham and Ilkeston.
  As well as extensive remediation and re-use of a large, brownfield site, the plans include consolidation of the existing rail line and provision of new rail spur.David Ward, Direct
  
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