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• Helical JV to develop three TfL over-station schemes

  15-02-2023 17:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Transport for London’s property arm has signed a deal with Helical to develop sites above three central London Underground stations.
  Helical will take a 51% stake in the joint venture with TTL Properties to take forward proposals for commercial over-station projects at Bank, Paddington and Southwark.
  All three sites have full planning permission to deliver sustainable commercial office developments.The joint venture company will purchase leasehold interests in the sites from TfL and establ
  
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• Inflation added £23bn to the cost of construction last year

  15-02-2023 08:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Rising costs add £23bn to the cost of construction output last year taking it to a record £204bn.
  This is the first-time annual construction value surpassed £200bn and represented a 15% rise from 2021 output values in nominal terms.
  Barbour ABI analysis of real versus nominal price indices showed the value would have been closer to £181bn if prices had remained at pre-pandemic levels.The construction information specialist is now forecasting an easing in price rises in th
  
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• Worker dies in rope access failure on office block

  15-02-2023 08:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A specialist contractor has been fined £120,000 after a young father died following a fall from the roof of a building site.
  Father-of-one Dennis Vincent, 36, and another worker were using ropes to install a lightning protection system to the front of a Warrington office block being converted into flats.
  Vincent, who was from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was lowering the access equipment from the roof, using a rope attached to a frame at roof level and a handrail at ground level. As he d
  
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• Plans in for £75m Lancashire Police HQ rebuild

  15-02-2023 08:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans have been submitted for a major redevelopment of Lancashire Constabulary’s headquarters site for Saunders Lane in Hutton, Preston.
  Split into three redevelopment phases the programme will cost in the region of £75m and take four to five years to complete.
  The ambitious project will see dispersed facilities at the 40-acre site demolished to make way for new buildings to form a modern new police campus.Much of the Saunders Lane complex is said to be “at the end of its useab
  
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• Tolent collapse could leave subbies £50m out-of-pocket

  15-02-2023 08:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Subcontractors and suppliers have been left holding around £50m in unpaid invoices following the fall of Tolent.
  Specialists who were working with the collapsed Gateshead based contractor fear a massive impact across the North East supply chain.
  One told the Enquirer: “We are hearing the shortfall will be around £50m which is going to have huge repercussions across the region.”Another added: “We have been having trouble getting money out of them for months.
  “I
  
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• Most major road projects in Wales scrapped – list

  15-02-2023 08:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Most major road building projects in Wales have been scrapped after the Welsh Government decided to give greater priority to environmental concerns.
  Plans for a third Menai bridge will not go ahead, nor major M4 improvements or the controversial £300m Red Route in Flintshire.
  Of around 55 road projects placed under review, just 17 were green-lighted and even those come with recommendations for further modifications.
  The publication of the Welsh government’s National Transport Plan fo
  
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• Rouse Homes gains green light for £40m Barnsley scheme

  15-02-2023 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leeds-based house builder Rouse Homes has gained outline planning to build 115 homes at the former Woolley Colliery Site in Darton, South Yorkshire.
  The site is split into two parcels of land with up to 75 homes to be built on the northern site and around 40 hoes on the southern site. Around 20% of these will be affordable.
  Works are now set to start on the £40m scheme later this year, subject to detailed planning and S106 agreements.
  Northern parcel of land near Barnsley Woolley Miners Cr
  
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• Green light for £40m homes plan former Woolley Colliery

  15-02-2023 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leeds-based house builder Rouse Homes has gained outline planning to build 115 homes at the former Woolley Colliery Site in Darton, South Yorkshire.
  The site is split into two parcels of land with up to 75 homes to be built on the northern site and around 40 hoes on the southern site. Around 20% of these will be affordable.
  Works is now set to start on the £40m scheme later this year, subject to detailed planning and S106 agreements.
  Northern parcel of land near Barnsley Wolley Miners Cric
  
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