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• Berkeley Homes back buying land after over two-year pause

  30-07-2024 16:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Berkeley Homes is returning to the land buying market after more than a two-and-a-half-year pause.
  Famed for its track record of calling the house market correctly, Berkeley said it had taken the decision to restock land as part of a series of measures to rise to the new Government’s challenge to build more homes.
  Chief executive Rob Perrins revealed Berkeley would also now look to accelerate the build out of its long term sites to deliver an extra 10,000 private and affordable h
  
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• Berkeley Homes back buying land after more than two-year pause

  30-07-2024 16:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Berkeley Homes is returning to the land buying market after more than a two-and-a-half-year pause.
  Famed for its track record of calling the house market correctly, Berkeley said it had taken the decision to restock land as part of a series of measures to rise to the new Government’s challenge to build more homes.
  Chief executive Rob Perrins revealed Berkeley would also now look to accelerate the build out of its long term sites to deliver an extra 10,000 private and affordable h
  
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• Rayner unveils housing reform plan to get Britain building

  30-07-2024 15:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has announced a set of radical reforms to overhaul the planning system and set new, mandatory housing targets to pave the way to deliver 1.5m more homes.
  The government shake-up of planning rules could see councils in England forced to build on low-quality green belt sites to meet mandatory house building targets.
  Also the government said it was also committed to making it easier to build key infrastructure such as laboratories, gigafactories and data centres,
  
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• John Lewis to build first housing project in London

  30-07-2024 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  The John Lewis Partnership has got the green light to transform a Waitrose site in South London with 353 new rental homes above a modernised store.
  The London Borough of Bromley agreed the plan, which will see a 24 storey tower built containing build to rent homes for local people.
  It is the first time that the John Lewis Partnership department store company has gone into residential housing development, as it seeks to diversify away from its traditional shops and retail business.
  Plans also fea
  
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• Builders refuse to pay latest brick price increases

  30-07-2024 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Materials giant Forterra said its latest round of brick price rises has failed to stick.
  Forterra announced its latest round of price hikes at the start of this year.
  But in a half–year results announcement to the City today the firm said: “Selling prices remain relatively stable with competitive market conditions restricting our ability to implement our announced price increases.”Forterra saw revenue for the six months to June 30 2024 fall to £162.1m from £183.2m a
  
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• Builders refuse to pay latest brick increases

  30-07-2024 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Materials giant Forterra said its latest round of brick price rises has failed to stick.
  Forterra announced its latest round of price hikes at the start of this year.
  But in a half–year results announcement to the City today the firm said: “Selling prices remain relatively stable with competitive market conditions restricting our ability to implement our announced price increases.”Forterra saw revenue for the six months to June 30 2024 fall to £162.1m from £183.2m a
  
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• GMI checks-in with £30m Manchester Premier Inn job

  30-07-2024 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  GMI Construction has bagged the job to deliver a landmark Premiere Inn hotel in Manchester City Centre.
  Construction work at the Rochdale Road site on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter is expected to start in September.
  The 229-bedroom Premier Inn hotel will be set over 10 storeys with an integrated restaurant, bar, and check-in area on the ground floor.
  Whitbread acquired the site from Premcor in February 2024 as part of the company’s ongoing strategy of investing in strateg
  
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• Pagabo opens bidding for £814m FM framework

  30-07-2024 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Procurement body Pagabo is inviting tenders for a new £814m FM framework targeting the needs of public sector clients in the healthcare, blue light, infrastructure, education and leisure sectors.
  The Total Facilities Management Framework will run for four years and offering hard, soft or combined facilities management services.
  Hard facilities management will cover the provision of all works in relation to the maintenance and upkeep – both planned and reactive – of a building o
  
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