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• June jump in construction output ends three month decline

  11-08-2023 09:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Monthly construction output increased 1.6% in June after three consecutive falls in monthly activity.
  New work lead the recovery rising by 2%, with repair and maintenance also showing weaker growth of 1.1%.
  Anecdotal evidence received from returns from monthly business returns suggested a positive effect of warm weather increasing output across sectors.
  Infrastructure new work and non-housing repair and maintenance drove the monthly improvement, increasing 4.7%  and 3.4%, respectively.The u
  
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• Persimmon gets go-ahead for 404-home Cornwall site

  11-08-2023 09:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Persimmon can start construction of the first phase of a 404-home scheme in Helston, Cornwall after securing planning permission.
  On Phase One Persimmon will deliver 94 new homes for local people, while the house builder will also transfer 19 properties to a housing association provider to support the local community’s housing need.
  The scheme will deliver enhanced walking and cycling routes, road access, public open spaces, and includes the retention of the existing landscape structure.Pl
  
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• Network Rail fined £1.2m after 6t rail crushes worker

  11-08-2023 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail has been fined £1.2m following the death of track worker who was crushed while carrying out maintenance work.
  Long-serving employee Kevin Mauger was crushed by a railway track weighing six tons while working at a rail depot in Hampshire.
  The 53-year-old from Eastleigh had five children and eight grandchildren.
  He had been carrying out maintenance on Network Rail’s rail production line at the Long Welded Rail Depot off Dutton Lane in Eastleigh on 30 November 2020.As he wa
  
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• Plans in for £100m Derby Friar Gate scheme

  11-08-2023 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wavensmere Homes and Clowes Developments have submitted plans to redevelop Derby’s historic Friar Gate Goods Yard.
  Two derelict landmark Grade II listed buildings will be restored and refitted to create 276 new homes and over 110,000 sq ft of commercial space.
  Friar Gate Goods Yard has been in the ownership of the Clowes family for over 40 years, with a number of options for redevelopment proposed but not progressed, due to heritage constraints and commercial viability.Wavensmere Homes and
  
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• Transport ban for demolition firm after load overturns

  11-08-2023 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Specialist contractor Haywood Crushing Demolition Ltd has been banned from transporting machinery for a year after a 45-tonne jaw crusher machine came off a trailer.
  The West Midlands Traffic Commissioner heard how the machine fell off as the trailer went round a roundabout and it was “a miracle that no-one was killed or seriously injured’ in the incident in January 2022.
  Chains used to secure the load were found to be inadequate while it traveled above permitted speeds without an es
  
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• Knights Brown wins £35m Cardiff coast defence job

  11-08-2023 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Hampshire-based civil engineering contractor Knights Brown has been awarded the contract to build Cardiff’s new coastal flood defence system.
  The £35m scheme to the south east of the city, on the Rover Way foreshore and the banks of the River Rhymney, has been designed to protect properties from extreme weather events, and from rising sea levels for the next 100 years.
  Work is expected to start on site later this year and will take around 3 years to complete.
  Knights Brown will be re
  
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• Tiler sentenced for £492,000 tax fraud

  11-08-2023 07:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A tax stealing tiler has been handed a suspended two-year jail sentence for a £492,000 VAT fraud after ignoring a chance to come clean.
  James Burton, who runs a tiling business in Northampton, was given the chance to make “full, open and honest” disclosures about his tax affairs to avoid criminal investigation.
  But the 45-year-old ignored all contact from HM Revenue and Customs and claimed a letter sent to him, which had been signed for, had been lost in a drawer.HMRC checks ra
  
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