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• Buyers report commercial and civils work up for second month

  06-04-2023 11:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction buyers reported a slowdown in growth in March as residential work acted as a brake on industry activity.
  But growth in commercial and civil engineering activity for the second month running kept the headline S&P Global/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index above the crucial 50 no-change mark.
  At 50.7 in March, the headline seasonally adjusted index was down from 54.6 in February, due to housing plunging to 44.2.
  Delivery times from suppliers improved at the faste
  
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• Councils awarded £50m to make risky roads safer

  06-04-2023 08:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government has awarded the third wave of funding to deliver crucial improvements to the most high risk roads in England.
  Improvements will now be made to roads from the Isle of Wight to Newcastle to help prevent fatal and serious injuries.
  The programme involves targeted minor works such as re-designing junctions and improving signage and road markings.The 27 schemes receiving funding from the Safer Roads Fund 3 are:Road
  Local authority
  Funding
  A586
  Blackpool Council
  £1,000,000
  A35
  Bou
  
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• Green light for Portsmouth hotel and 19-storey flats

  06-04-2023 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to build a landmark hotel and 176 high-rise flats in Portsmouth city centre have gained outline approval.
  Developer National Regional Property Group aims to redevelop the city’s former postal sorting office with a 19-storey flats development and a 200-bed hotel.
  The scheme, designed by HGP Architects, converts the existing sorting office building while promoting a prominent landmark tower to house the residential element of the proposals.Tom Molyneux-Wright at planning agent DPP said
  
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• Torsion lands quartet of contracts worth £114m

  06-04-2023 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leeds-based construction and property business Torsion Group has secured four new major projects worth £114m within its residential and student accommodation division.
  The four schemes are – a £46m residential development in Birmingham for Select Property, a £25.9m residential scheme in Manchester, a £10.2m student accommodation Scheme in York and a £32m student accommodation scheme with Bricks Group.
  All four developments are design and build and will be deli
  
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• Plans in for 683-home Edinburgh Meadowbank scheme

  06-04-2023 08:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans have been lodged to build one of Edinburgh’s greenest neighbourhoods at the former Meadowbank sports complex site.
  Edinburgh City Council and its development partners Graham and Miller Homes plan to build 683 homes on the site around the new Meadowbank Sports Centre.
  The site at 139 London Road was formerly occupied by the wider Meadowbank sports complex, which included a stadium, running track, velodrome, grass and synthetic pitches, and indoor sports and leisure facilities.Designed
  
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• Allenbuild suffers fourth year of losses

  06-04-2023 08:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing association-owned contractor Allenbuild is pulling out of bidding for new work after suffering its fourth year of losses.
  The firm, which now operates from offices in Preston and Edinburgh, reduced losses to £460,000 last year from a £4.6m loss in 2021 as sales fell 17% to £38m.
  The firm acts as an internal contractor for social housing provider Place for People, which bought the affordable housing contractor for £3m from Renew Group back in 2014.But after the run
  
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