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• HS2 civils delivery director to depart

  17-02-2023 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HS2 civils delivery director Mike Lyons is stepping down after more than nine years on the project.
  Lyons is understood to be moving on to take a new role in the private sector.
  He started at HS2 in 2014 as a programme director on the Birmingham stations programme.He was later promoted to client director before taking then being promoted to the key post of civils delivery director 18 months ago, reporting directly to CEO Mark Thurston.
  Before HS2, Lyons worked at Network Rail over 11 years deliv
  
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• Go-ahead for Chester 133-flats canalside scheme

  17-02-2023 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to build more than 130 homes on brownfield land in the centre of Chester have been nodded through by local planners.
  Latimer, the development arm of Clarion Housing Group, plans to build the apartments on the vacant site next to the Shropshire Union Canal and grade-II-listed Chester Shot Tower.
  The firm said it would now progress the one and two-bedroom flats scheme starting with the appointment of a build contractor to start on site this year.
  The project forms part of a wider City Place
  
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• Manchester’s £300m Great Northern scheme approved

  17-02-2023 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Ambitious plans to redevelop Manchester’s Grade II-listed Great Northern Warehouse and its connected buildings with a 1.5m sq ft mixed residential, office and retail scheme have got the green light.
  The ambitious city centre scheme is the brainchild of joint developers Trilogy Real Estate and Hong Kong-based Peterson.
  They have pieced together the complex site made up of the Great Northern Warehouse, Deansgate Terrace, a 1990s extension known as “the Leisure Box”, Deansgate Mew
  
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• Willmott Dixon wins Wolverton town centre renewal

  17-02-2023 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Milton Keynes city council has picked Willmott Dixon as its preferred bidder to deliver the landmark Agora regeneration scheme in Wolverton.
  Working alongside developer TOWN, Willmott Dixon will review and finalise the design for the new development on the former site of the disused Agora Centre and adjacent car park.
  The scheme will provide 115 new two- to four-storey homes across six residential blocks, nearly a third of which will be affordable housing and which incorporates a co-housing comm
  
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