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• Developers urged to claim land remediation tax relief

  02-11-2021 17:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  R&D tax relief specialist Recoup Capital has launched a land remediation relief service where land owners can claim 50p in the pound back in relief for removing ground abnormalities such as asbestos, knotweed or any structures predating 1998.
  Land remediation relief (LRR) is a generous corporation tax relief available to investors and developers incurring expenditure on the remediation of contaminated land, including derelict structures.
  The scheme is designed to encourage the clean-up of br
  
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• MPs call for 5-year pause on Smart motorway programme

  02-11-2021 09:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  MPs on the Transport Select Committee have urged the Government to pause the Smart Motorway Programme amid rising safety concerns.
  The MPs want to see the Office for Rail and Road start a probe into the safety of all-lane running motorways, which have no hard shoulder, and scrutinise the Government’s recent £500m package of measures to make Smart motorways safer for motorists.
  It described the government’s decision in March 2020 that all future smart motorways would be all-lane
  
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• Race starts for £1.6bn NHS construction consultants deal

  02-11-2021 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  NHS Shared Business Services has started the bidding process for its long-awaited third-generation construction consultants framework.
  More than 200 firms will face a fight to retain places on the £1.6bn framework ,which can be used by other qualifiying public clients.
  Firms will battle for spots in 16 distinct consultancy services areas across a dozen regions of the UK.The framework will also be divided into 11 value bands based on construction project value.NHS SBS lotting for Constructi
  
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• HS2 subbies to sign up for diversity and inclusion training

  02-11-2021 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  All HS2 subcontractors and suppliers will be expected to “embed Diversity and Inclusion best practice across their business processes.”
  Leaders of the £106bn project have launched HS2 Marketplace which allows suppliers of all sizes access diversity training and resources.
  The HS2 Marketplace platform is designed and backed by diversity and inclusion consultant the Clear Company who have awarded HS2 their Clear Assured Platinum Standard accreditation.More than 2,300 businesses h
  
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• HS2 subbies have to sign up for diversity and inclusion training

  02-11-2021 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  All HS2 subcontractors and suppliers will be expected to “embed Diversity and Inclusion best practice across their business processes.”
  Leaders of the £106bn project have launched HS2 Marketplace which allows suppliers of all sizes access diversity training and resources.
  The HS2 Marketplace platform is designed and backed by diversity and inclusion consultant the Clear Company who have awarded HS2 their Clear Assured Platinum Standard accreditation.More than 2,300 businesses h
  
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• Go-ahead for £40m West Cumberland hospital phase 2

  02-11-2021 08:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Copeland Borough Council has granted planning for the £40m phase 2 of West Cumberland Hospital’s planned redevelopment in Whitehaven.
  Graham Construction will now start work on the two-storey extension project in the Spring.
  North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust developed ambitious plan to replace approximately 40% of the original structure at WCH and build upon the £90m phase 1 of the project which was completed in 2015.The redevelopment includes a Specialist Pall
  
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