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• Plans in for another major Home Counties film studio complex

  28-10-2022 09:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  Plans for a major 1.75m sq ft studio complex in Bedfordshire have now been submitted for planning.
  Designed by architect Scott Brownrigg, the new film and television studio campus will be built near Stewartby at a 143-acre site and former clay brick quarry.
  Developer VERB and film studio operator Quartermaster are behind the Home of Production Bedfordshire plan.
  Head of Masterplanning at Scott Brownrigg, Bruce Calton said of the project: “This complex brief, across an intriguing site, com
  
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• Bathroom pod supplier Kubex UK liquidated

  28-10-2022 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  Bathroom pod supplier Kubex (UK) Ltd has been wound-up voluntarily owing £2.2m to suppliers and the tax authorities.
  Documents filed at Companies House show that Begbies Traynor was appointed joint liquidator of the Hull based specialist earlier this month.
  Kubex went under owing £1.3m to unsecured creditors with a raft of suppliers listed who are now holding virtually worthless invoices.The Enquirer revealed earlier this month that Kubex was struggling to fulfill its existing contra
  
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• Go-ahead for 950-home Pudding Mill Lane scheme

  28-10-2022 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  The London Legacy Development Corporation plans to start the search for a joint venture developer in early 2023 to deliver the 950-home Pudding Mill Lane scheme on the Queen Elizabeth Park in London.
  The scheme has just secured outline planning consent subject to signing s106 agreements.
  LLDC will now set in train plans to start building work on site in 2026 and be completed by 2033.Around 948 homes will be delivered with around 45% affordable, of which a minimum of 30% will be low-cost rent hou
  
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• Extra design work digs £200m deeper into HS2 contingency

  28-10-2022 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  The cost of extra design work on the HS2 main work contracts has eaten £200m into contingency funding for the project in the last six months.
  The latest progress report on the mega project reveals that HS2 has had to dig deeper into its £5bn contingency funds.
  Significant amounts of the original design work on HS2’s Euston station have been ditched after the decision was taken for the station to be scaled back from 11 to 10 platforms.
  HS2 chiefs are now projecting around £
  
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• Extra design work digs £200m deeper into HS2 contigency

  28-10-2022 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  The cost of extra design work on HS2 main work contracts has eaten £200m into contingency funding for the project in the last six months.
  The lastest progress report on the mega project reveals that HS2 has had to dig deeper into its £5bn contingency funds.
  Significant amounts of the original design work on HS2’s Euston station have been ditched after the decision was taken for the station to be scaled back from 11 to 10 platforms.
  HS2 chiefs are now projecting around £1.
  
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• J S Wright lands £17m M&E package at London Dock

  28-10-2022 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  Building services specialist J S Wright has won a £17m contract for the latest phase of London Dock.
  The firm has been contracted by Berkeley Group brand St George to install the mechanical and electrical systems for all 359 new-build apartments within Saffron Wharf.
  The block of mixed-tenure apartments is part of a master plan for 1,800 new homes and 180,000 sq ft of commercial space on the 15-acre site of the former News International printworks.
  Work on site is scheduled to start in lat
  
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