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• Bellway walks away from Crest Nicholson takeover bid

  13-08-2024 17:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bellway has decided not to launch a £720m takeover of Crest Nicholson despite months of negotiations with its smaller rival.
  Both sides have been in discussions since May with an opening £650m offer rejected by Crest Nicholson.
  But Crest Nicholson directors indicated last month they “were minded to recommend”an improved £720m offer.But Bellway suddenly announced on Tuesday that “it does not intend to make a firm offer for Crest Nicholson.”
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• Plan for ‘Labour-style’ 6,000-home new town in Oxfordshire

  13-08-2024 09:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans have been unveiled to build a 6,000-home new town following many of the guidelines set out by the Labour Government for its favoured next-generation of large housing schemes.
  Dorchester Living, the developer of Heyford Park in Oxfordshire, has submitted a scoping request to Cherwell District Council in advance of preparing a planning application for its new masterplan.
  As well as new homes, schools and a village centre consisting of a hotel, Sainsbury’s, dentist, barbers and pharmacy
  
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• Glencar wins £35m Crewe logistics job

  13-08-2024 09:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Joint developers Trebor and Hillwood have signed a deal with Glencar to construct a 335,000 sq ft distribution shed in the heart of Crewe’s established commercial area.The 13-acre site for the Crewe 335 unit is situated on Weston Road and was formally known as the Old Tea Factory.
  It will be built to an enhanced specification including several sustainable initiatives and will achieve BREEAM “Excellent” certification.Greg Dalton, Development Director at Trebor, said: &ldquo
  
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• Graham to build 10m deep cap over radioactive waste site

  13-08-2024 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Graham has secured the four-year task to finally encapsulate a legacy low-level waste storage site in Cumbria.
  Nuclear Waste Services, which manages the disposal of the UK’s low-level radioactive waste, commissioned the important work on the final capping of disposal trenches and vaults used through the sixties to the late eighties.
  Graham starts work this month on the Southern Trenches Interim Membrane – STIM -project with major works commencing in February 2025.
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• Government speeds-up faster rural broadband investment

  13-08-2024 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The government is pledging up to £800m to modernise broadband infrastructure in rural areas of England, Scotland and Wales.
  The money will boost accelerate the Project Gigabit scheme which targets places too expensive for providers to reach in their commercial build and which would otherwise be left behind with poor digital infrastructure.
  Contracts worth £288m have already been signed with BT-owned Openreach under the agreement to connect 96,600 home.Talks are now underway with Open
  
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• Epic 8-month HS2 viaduct deck slide completes – video

  13-08-2024 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Engineers have completed an 8-month long mammoth uphill slide of the 3,700-tonne Wendover Dean viaduct deck in Buckinghamshire.The deck, which stretches for 450m, was assembled in three stages, ranging from 90m to 180m, with each one pushed out from the north abutment before the next section was bolted on behind it.
  This painstaking process meant that the weight of the deck increased with each push, up from an initial 590 tonnes at the start of work in January – to 3,700 tonnes by the time
  
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• Scottish railway £1.3bn civils deal winners

  13-08-2024 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  VolkerRail has secured its first major contract to work on Scotland’s Railway as part of Network Rail’s new Scotland Civils Framework to deliver up to £1.3bn of work.
  The contractor, which regularly completes projects on the network in England and Wales, will deliver up to £150m of signalling, power and communications works.
  The other lot winners amount to a renewal of previous CP6 deals with four other firms.Network Rail lot winners
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