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• Green light for £1.3bn Edinburgh coastal town revamp

  20-11-2024 15:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  Plans for the largest regeneration project of its kind in Scotland for a new environmentally friendly coastal town in Edinburgh have been given the go ahead.
  Edinburgh council has agreed a planning application for the first phase of the £1.3bn regeneration project to transform Granton Waterfront.
  The decision gives the green light for 847 ‘net zero ready’ homes to be built in partnership with Cruden Homes on the city’s largest brownfield site.The new development will also
  
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• Death of piling legend Roger Bullivant

  20-11-2024 09:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  One of the great innovators of the ground engineering sector, Roger Bullivant died last week aged 85.
  He is understood to have been fighting a long-term illness for several years.
  Roger Bullivant founded his business in 1971, starting out as a grouting specialist building up the business initially repairing homes damaged by subsidence for the NHBC.
  For difficult cases he combined grouting with pin piles.By the late 1980s, the Burton on Trent contractor was developing precast concrete piling solu
  
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• Vistry chief operating officer steps down

  20-11-2024 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Vistry announced this morning that chief operating officer Earl Sibley is leaving the business.Sibley decided to step down from the partnerships homes group due to the removal of his current role of chief operating officer.He has been with the business since April 2015, and will step down as a director with immediate effect and will support a seamless and orderly transition of his responsibilities.  Vistry said the change reduced the length of reporting lines and ensured closer proximity of
  
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• Builders back farmers in inheritance tax protest

  20-11-2024 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction leaders have voiced their support for farmers who staged a protest in Westminster yesterday over inheritance tax plans.
  Television personality Jeremy Clarkson led the call by thousands of farmers to scrap plans announced in the Budget to impose a 20% inheritance tax from April 2026 on farms worth more than £1m.
  Richard Beresford, Chief Executive of the National Federation of Builders (NFB), said the plans would also have an impact on family-owned construction firms.He said:&nb
  
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• ESS Modular went down owing suppliers £7m

  20-11-2024 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  Subcontractors and suppliers to Hull-based offsite specialist ESS Modular have been left holding unpaid invoices worth £7m after the firm went into administration in September.
  Debts at trading company Extraspace Solutions (UK) Limited (ESS) have been confirmed in an update at Companies House by administrator EY.
  Extraspace Solutions UK Limited is owned by Cathexis UK Holding Ltd – which is also the owner of ISG.EY said the company was in a separate corporate structure and the admini
  
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• Willmott Dixon wins £36m leisure centre upgrade

  20-11-2024 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon has finalised a £36m deal to restore the historic 1930s Grade II listed Seymour Centre in Marylebone, central London.Under the deal with Westminster City Council, Willmott Dixon will carry out a full restoration of the three-storey centre.This will include delivering a refurbished the swimming pool, new sports hall and open plan gym, and permanent home for the Marylebone Library over two floors.Willmott Dixon has teamed up with MAKE Architects and Hadron
  
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