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• HS2 wins High Court injunction to block protestors

  20-09-2022 23:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  The High Court has granted HS2 an injunction to block activists from carrying out disruptive protests on land along the entire phase one route.
  The injunction makes it a criminal offence for anyone to enter ‘HS2 land’ or delay its construction operations.
  The anticipatory injunction will protect construction works against nearly 60 named defendants as well as ‘persons unknown’.
  Justice Julian Knowles accepted that “massive tracts of land” were potentially aff
  
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• Galliford Try staff to get £750 cost of living payment

  20-09-2022 15:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  Galliford Try has become one of the first major contractor to offer a one-off payment to aid employees and their families with the rising costs of living.
  Individual payments of up to £750 will be made to around 1,800 individuals, amounting to almost half its employees.
  The firm is the first contractor to offer a one-off payment to lower-earning staff. It follows similar payments to staff by house builders Barratt and Taylor Wimpey and several specialist subcontractor.Bill Hocking, chief e
  
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• Glencar wins £30m Barnsley industrial shed job

  20-09-2022 14:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  Developer Firethorn Trust has turned to shed builder Glencar again to deliver a 340,000 sq ft logistics/industrial unit at the Gateway 340 development in Barnsley.
  The 24-acre logistics site development, being marketed as Barnsley 340, will comprise 320,000 sq ft of logistics space together with 20,000 ss ft of office space.
  St Albans-based Glencar is understood to have beaten rival bids from ISG and McLaren.
  Pete Goodman, Glencar managing director Midlands and North, said: “We are therefo
  
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• Scottish house builder puts rental housing schemes on hold

  20-09-2022 09:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  Scottish house builder Springfield has put all future affordable housing and build to rent schemes on hold due to rising costs and the Scottish Government’s plan to freeze rents in the face of the cost of living crisis.
  The decision to derisk the building pipeline and concentrate on private housing schemes was announced alongside otherwise upbeat end of year results for the group.
  Both affordable and contract housing amount to around a third of total group revenues.Scotland’s only st
  
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• Crane sale raises £4.6m after M&M collapse

  20-09-2022 09:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  A lot of 22 mobile cranes has raised £4.6m at auction following the collapse of hirer M&M which went into voluntary liquidation last month.
  Euro Auctions staged the sale which attracted buyers from across the globe.
  David Betts from Euro Auctions said:  “This was a ‘sale within a sale’ and it attracted a true international audience.“Normally Euro Auctions would have conducted a stand-alone ‘off site’ sale for an inventory such as this, but it wa
  
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• Henry Boot shines with near-record first half profit

  20-09-2022 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  Developer/contractor Henry Boot has reported a bumper first-half performance driven by land disposals and project completions.
  Over the period to June, Henry Boot raised revenue 12% to £144m, generating 68% uplift in pre-tax profit to £39m, due mainly to strong residential land sales and industrial development activity.
  The construction arm also enjoyed a good start to the year with revenue ahead by over a fifth at £67m and trading profit up nearly a half to £6.3m.Boot sa
  
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• Council steps-in to save sites hit by Woodhead collapse

  20-09-2022 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  A local council has stepped-in to save a housing scheme hit by the failure of Woodhead Construction.
  Bolsover District Council is taking over a number of sites where Woodhead was main contractor as part of its £36m Bolsover Homes building programme.
  The council is planning to keep site teams and subcontractors together and take over management of the jobs.
  Woodhead had been working on the scheme for two-years with another two set to run under the deal to deliver more then 400 homes.Council
  
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• £26m Surrey road and bridge job out to tender

  20-09-2022 08:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  Plans to improve safety and reduce congestion at Ash railway station in Surrey have advanced to project tender.
  Guildford Borough Council is heading the plan to replace the station level crossing with a new bridge and pedestrian crossing.
  The  A323 Guildford Road road diversion and bridge project will also enable housing that has been allocated in the Local Plan to come forward.The present crossing barrier is currently down for up to 25 minutes every hour, and barrier downtime will increase
  
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• Renewal race for £2.5bn housing upgrade framework

  20-09-2022 07:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  Scores of firms face a fight to renew their places on the £2.5bn Procure Plus homes installation and repair framework.
  The Manchester social housing framework specialist has started retendering its next-generation framework which is due to come into operation next August.
  The installation and repair framework agreement covers a range of specialist trades works for planned maintenance predominantly within social housing properties as well as public buildings such as schools and offices.It i
  
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