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• ‘Nonsensical’ Gove scuppers M&S store rebuild plan

  20-07-2023 16:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  M&S bosses have aimed a withering attack at Michael Gove after the Levelling Up Secretary refused plans to demolish and rebuild its flagship store on Oxford Street.
  Gove’s decision to go against the recommendation of his planning inspectors was described as “pathetic” and “nonsensical” by M&S CEO Stuart Machin.
  Plans for a new ten-storey steel and glass office complex on the site have been approved by Westminster City Council the GLA and planning inspector D
  
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• Historic glazing contractor goes under

  20-07-2023 13:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A glazing and roofing contractor which has been in business for nearly 200 years has ceased trading with the loss of 49 jobs.
  The Enquirer reported last month that the owners of Norman & Underwood were working with Begbies Traynor to find a buyer.
  But Begbies Traynor has now been appointed administrator at the business after no suitable offers came forward.The administrator said: “Unfortunately, it was not possible to find a purchaser for the Leicester-based glazing, metal roofing and
  
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• Sellar gets go-ahead on 444-bed London student scheme

  20-07-2023 11:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London developer Sellar has secured planning permission to build 444 purpose-built student homes, office and retail space at King’s Place in Southwark.
  Site owner Southwark Homes brought in Sellar as development manager to advance the student accommodation project replacing earlier plans for a hotel and flats at the Harper Road and Borough High Street site.
  Architect Morris and Co has designed the replacement scheme, which will be spread over an H-shaped footprint building rising from 5 to
  
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• Sellar gets go-ahead 444-bed London student scheme

  20-07-2023 11:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London developer Sellar has secured planning permission to build 444 purpose-built student homes, office and retail space at King’s Place in Southwark.
  Site owner Southwark Homes brought in Sellar as development manager to advance the student accommodation project replacing earlier plans for a hotel and flats at the Harper Road and Borough High Street site.
  Architect Morris and Co has designed the replacement scheme, which will be spread over an H-shaped footprint building rising from 5 to
  
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• Morgan Sindall wins £25m Norwich health job

  20-07-2023 09:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Morgan Sindall to build a £25m diagnostic centre.The 40,000 sq ft building will be situated next to the Quadram Institute on the Norwich Research Park, connecting the pre-existing infrastructure at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to the new services.A steel frame will be installed with brick façade in keeping with the rest of the University Hospital estate.  As part of Morgan Sindall’
  
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• Kier whittles net debt down to £230m

  20-07-2023 08:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has whittled down its average month-end net debt to £23om after a better than expected cash performance at its construction division.
  In a year-end trading statement, Kier said it had also managed to keep the order book above £10bn, with 85% of next year’s forecast revenue already secured.
  Andrew Davies, chief executive, said that despite inflationary pressures Kier would report revenue and profit in line with expectations in September.He added that Kier had generated bett
  
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• Watch UK’s heaviest bridge drive on HS2

  20-07-2023 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The UK’s heaviest drive to install an intersection bridge structure beneath the West Coast Main Line near Lichfield has been successfully completed on HS2 by Balfour Beatty Vinci.
  The 56 metre long and 19 metre wide concrete structure weighs 6,200-tonnes and was built adjacent to the WCML over the last six months.
  It was slowly manoeuvred into place on self-propelled modular transporters controlled by a remote steering system.Over the two days before the move, the team removed the railway
  
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• Olympian Homes plans Bristol’s tallest building

  20-07-2023 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Olympian Homes, working closely with Whitbread, has submitted plans for what will be Bristol’s tallest building.
  The project, designed by architect Hodder+Partners, will redevelop a 20-storey aging Premier Inn at St James Barton roundabout, in the centre of the city.
   Olympian Homes proposes to transform the site – to be renamed St James Square – with an 18-storey co-living homes project and a 28-storey student rooms building.
  20-storey Premier Inn building will
  
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• Lendlease to cut 200 jobs from UK business

  20-07-2023 00:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Enquirer understands Lendlease is looking to cut around 200 staff at its UK operations as part of a global downsizing which will see 760 jobs go worldwide.
  Sources close to the contractor told the Enquirer that the construction division will avoid any redundancies with the development division being hardest hit by cuts.
  Jobs will also be lost in the Human Resources, IT, sustainability, finance and health and safety operations.Lendlease confirmed this week that it will be cutting 760 jobs &nd
  
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