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• Stonehenge tunnel hit by another legal delay

  21-05-2024 15:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The start of main construction works for the £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down upgrade including a tunnel near the historic Stonehenge site has been hit by another legal delay.
  National Highways chiefs hoped the long running planning saga was over when a High Court judge dismissed a challenge to the scheme by campaigners in February after a development consent order (DCO) was granted by the government last year.
  But the Court of Appeal has now decided it will grant a hearing to an appea
  
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• 40% affordable homes target for Labour’s new towns

  21-05-2024 13:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Labour aims to deliver 40% affordable homes in a next generation of new towns, if it wins power,
  Shadow housing secretary and deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner pledged to work with the private sector to build  “new towns” aimed at meeting a commitment to construct 1.5m new homes over five years.
  She said the party would appoint a new towns taskforce of independent experts to earmark sites for the first of its new towns before the end of its first year in power.In a speech to th
  
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• Plans go in for huge Olympic Park construction hub

  21-05-2024 10:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail Property has submitted an outline masterplan to regenerate 30 acres of brownfield land at Bow Goods Yard on the Olympic Park in East London.
  The scheme will deliver London’s largest integrated construction rail freight logistics hub capable of transporting 3.5m tonnes of materials to and from the site every year.
  Bow Goods Yard is one of London’s primary railheads and the new scheme will increase its capacity taking up to 90,000 HGV movements a year from London’s r
  
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• Vistry seals £157m West London housing deal

  21-05-2024 09:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing association Sovereign Network Group has picked Vistry to deliver a flagship scheme of 575 new homes in Ealing, West London.
  This innovative scheme at Merrick Place in Ealing is worth £157m and will be made up of mixed-tenure homes along with commercial floorspace across four separate buildings.  
  Now defunct Henry Construction had previously been lined up to deliver the major project, which has been designed by architect Cartwright Pickard.It has been designed to maximise
  
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• Streamlined Watkin Jones returns to profit in first half

  21-05-2024 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Student accommodation and private rental builder Watkin Jones returned to profit in the first six months of the year after a successful business restructure.
  This morning firm reported it was at last seeing an improvement in sentiment in the investment market bringing forward more opportunities.
  In the first half of the year, revenue rose 14% to £175m generating a modest profit of £2.1m after last year’s £43m full-year loss following provisions for building safety work.Al
  
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• Surgo Construction went down owing £4.5m

  21-05-2024 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North East building contractor Surgo Construction went into administration in March owing £4.48m.
  The scale of the firm’s debts were detailed in an update from administrator FRP Advisory posted at Companies House.
  Hundreds of subcontractors and suppliers were left holding unpaid invoices worth more than £1.2m with little chance of unsecured creditors receiving anything for their submitted bills.The biggest creditor was Bellway Homes who are owed £1.18m by Sugro following
  
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• BAM wins £33m Kent secondary school job

  21-05-2024 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM is to construct a new 750-pupil secondary school to replace the existing Orchards Academy in Swanley, Kent.
  The £32.8m project will deliver a full 100% new build school replacement on a live school site.
  BAM will deliver two distinct blocks – a teaching block and a sports hall block – integrating innovative modular construction techniques to minimise disruption.Daniel Brenchley, BAM construction manager, said that the school will be designed to achieve net-zero carbon build
  
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• Persimmon under fire for delays to £10m relief road

  21-05-2024 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  West Suffolk Council is serving two Breach of Condition Notices on Persimmon Homes after the latest delay to the £10m Haverhill Relief Road.
  The relief road was originally meant to be completed by March 2023 but has been hit by a series of delays and revised timetables with the house builder now hoping to complete the route by the end of this year.
  Cllr Jim Thorndyke, Cabinet Member for Planning at West Suffolk Council, said: “We have seen delay after delay and excuse after excuse. I
  
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• Bellway hires ex-brickie as group construction chief

  21-05-2024 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Volume house builder Bellway has appointed a new group construction director to oversee building practices and quality across its 21 operating divisions.
  James Griffin joined the industry as an apprentice in 1999 and worked for seven years as a bricklayer before joining the National House Building Council where he has worked for the last 17 years.
  At NHBC, he worked his way up from building inspector to regional director for the eastern region before joining Bellway.Griffin will now oversee Bell
  
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• Plan for £100m Liverpool Baltic station

  21-05-2024 07:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans for Liverpool’s £100m Baltic station scheme have been revealed for public consultation ahead of planning being submitted.
  Subject to approval, it is expected work could begin on site in 2025, with the station planned for opening by the end of 2027.
  The new Merseyrail station is one of four planned by recently re-elected Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram, who has committed to completing the project by the end of 2027 – a year ahead of its current schedule.The othe
  
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