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• Menai Bridge shut over structural safety fears

  21-10-2022 15:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  Structural engineers ordered the sudden closure of the Menai Bridge in Anglesey on Friday afternoon following safety inspections.
  The decision was made following recent testing of the bridge’s existing hangers as part of an ongoing maintenance programme.
  The Welsh Government said: “Serious risks have been identified and structural engineers have recommended to close Menai Bridge to all traffic.“The findings that led to the recommendation to close the bridge are currently being
  
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• Vinci gets start date for £96m Hull Albion Square

  21-10-2022 09:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  Hull City Council has consented revised plans for its £96m Albion Square city centre regeneration scheme.
  The decision paves the way for construction partner Vinci to press ahead with extensive demolition works at the site bordered by Jameson Street, Bond Street and Albion Street.
  Revised plans designed by Faulkner Browns Architects include 226 new homes, office and retail space, an urban park and a multi-storey car park.
  A previous high-rise apartment block and ice rink have been shelved
  
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• Gloomy architects at lowest ebb since 2009

  21-10-2022 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  Confidence among the country’s architects has collapsed according to the latest Future Trends survey by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
  In September the RIBA Future Trends Workload Index fell by 9 points to a balance figure of -17 which is the the lowest score, outside of lockdown since the recession 0f 2009.
  In the next three months, 16% of practices said they expect workloads to increase, 32% expect them to decrease and 52% expect them to remain the same.All the monitor
  
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• Revised £460m London estate rebuild plan approved

  21-10-2022 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  London residential developer Mount Anvil has gained planning for revised plans to rebuild the Friary Park estate in West London.
  Working with housing association Catalyst, the developer already had secured planning to build 990 homes at the Ealing estate three years ago. This had a development value of £380m.
  The recast scheme, now valued at £460m and costing around £275m to build, will now deliver an extra 238 homes, half of these affordable, taking the overall total to nearly
  
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• Go-ahead for £75m Hackney Wick London student scheme

  21-10-2022 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  Developer Southern Grove has secured permission to create a £75m mixed-use student accommodation scheme at Hackney Wick in London.
  Located on the site of the famous former Broadwood piano factory on Fish Island, the project when completed will house 204 student beds in two six and seven-storey blocks.
  The ground floor of both buildings will host incubator space for the London College of Fashion.A third five-storey building making up the Piano Works Scheme will contain 840 sq m of commercia
  
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