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• London council can no longer police planning applications

  15-03-2024 14:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Greenwich council in south London has admitted it can no longer police planning applications.
  Officials at the Royal Borough said funding was no longer available for inspectors to check that planning permission conditions were being adhered to.
  The spotlight has been turned on the borough’s planning system following the controversial granting of retrospective permission to turn a building into a homeless hostel on one of Greenwich’s prime residential streets.Greenwich council granted
  
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• Mace fresh start date for £90m Natural History Museum hub

  15-03-2024 12:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace has been given a fresh start date for the Natural History Museum’s £90m collections and science centre project in Reading.
  This week the Museum gained planning consent, subject to s106, to build a new collections and research centre at Thames Valley Science Park in Shinfield.
  Earlier it had been hoped the project would start early this year but now the Museum has announced it is aiming for an early 2025 start to the project.
  The centre’s footprint will be the equivalent of
  
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• First ‘Great Grid Upgrade’ job goes to MGroup and Murphy

  15-03-2024 12:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Development consent has been granted for a new £400m green electricity project to upgrade the high-voltage power network in North Yorkshire.
  Construction of the Yorkshire GREEN electricity grid project is due to start this summer.
  Morrison Energy Services, part of the MGroup, will deliver the new overhead line and existing overhead line refurbishment, while Murphy will build two new substations in Overton and Monk Fryston.
  Hyosung and Hyundai will supply transformers to the substations.Thi
  
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• AGD suppliers latest crawler cranes for HS2

  15-03-2024 11:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction plant hirer and supplier AGD Equipment has sold two Sennebogen model 683E 80 tons telescopic crawler cranes to Total Plant Ltd.
  Total Plant is a division of concrete frame specialist MPB Structures Ltd who will use the new machines on the BBV HS2 site in Birmingham over the next three years.The 683E has only recently been launched by Sennebogen and features a 42 m full power telescopic boom, 20 degree tilting cab for improved operator vision, virtual wall system and stage 5 engine f
  
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• Balfour and Costain win vast power and carbon capture job

  15-03-2024 11:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty and Costain and among a clutch of contractors to have secured work on Teesside to build the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture.
  Clients Net Zero Teesside Power and the Northern Endurance Partnership have selected contractors for engineering, procurement, and construction contracts with a combined value of around £4bn.
  Nine leading specialist contractors will share eight contract packages subject to a final investment decision due to be taken befo
  
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• Safety chiefs act to avoid building control crisis

  15-03-2024 08:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The HSE-run Building safety Regulator has announced a three-month extension to the deadline for  all building control professionals to be registered and prove their competence by April 6 as part of the post-Grenfell industry shake-up.
  Building control chiefs had warned the original April 6 deadline would lead to a complete collapse in the system with nowhere near enough people registered in time.
  At least 4,500 qualified inspectors are understood to be needed to cope with current workloads.
  
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• TClarke hits £500m turnover target but profitability slips

  15-03-2024 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  M&E specialist TClarke has substantially achieved its ambitious target to double revenue in three years to £500m.
  The firm revealed this morning that revenue last year jumped a further 15% lifting it to £491m.
  But challenging market conditions, particularly impacting the Engineering Services business, saw pre-tax profits slide a quarter to £7.6m.This meant that group operating margins fell back from 2.7% in 2022 to 1.9% last year.
  Chief executive Mark Lawrence said regional
  
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• Competition watchdog probes Barratt Redrow merger

  15-03-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into the £2.5bn acquisition of Redrow by rival Barratt.
  The deal was announced last month creating to create a mega house builder turning over £7.45bn and delivering over 22,600 homes a year, based on past performance.
  CMA watchdogs are investigating if the move “may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services.”It a
  
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• Six win £1bn North West & Central railway works deal

  15-03-2024 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail has named six firms to deliver a £1bn programme of medium size works for control period 7 in its north west and central territory.
  The deal forms part of a flight of frameworks to be set up covering the “Backbone of Britain” route.
  The framework covers projects from £100,000 to £7m known as category B+C works, and comes into force this April, running to 2029.Story bagged both civils and building works across the entire region, with Murphy and Amalgamate
  
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• Just 10% of £10bn Levelling Up funding spent by councils

  15-03-2024 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Just over 10% of the Government’s promised Levelling Up funds has actually been spent and is making a difference on the ground.
  Watchdog MPs on the Public Accounts Committee also found the Government was unable to provide any compelling examples of what Levelling Up funding has delivered so far.
  In a report published today, the committee MPs warn that councils have been able to spend just a fraction of the Government’s promised funding.
  The public accounts committee said barely any o
  
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