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• Blackpool council steps in on failed developer’s £300m scheme

  16-12-2024 17:30
  
  Blackpool Council has stepped in to salvage the seaside town’s ambitious £300m Blackpool Central scheme after developer Nikal filed for administration.
  The council has now confirmed it will press ahead with site clearance and appoint DSM Demolition to clear the site’s old police station and municipal courts early in the new year.
  The cost for the demolition will be met from Blackpool Town Deal funding.
  The Council’s executive committee has terminated the agreement with Ni
  
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• Torsion sells under-construction Leeds BTR scheme

  16-12-2024 16:17
  
  Torsion Group has sold its 300-apartment Build To Rent scheme in Leeds Flax Place to real estate investment and asset management firm Starlight Investments.
  Flax Place is currently under construction with the concrete frame expected to start in the coming weeks and a completio date of late 2026.
  Dan Spencer Founder and CEO of Torsion Group said: “The sale of Flax Place to Starlight demonstrates Torsion’s approach to investing in key regional city’s, ensuring alignment and share
  
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• Bowmer + Kirkland gets start date for £100m Siemens site

  16-12-2024 15:59
  
  Construction will start early next year for Siemens Mobility on a £100m rail infrastructure, digital engineering, and research and development facility in Chippenham after planning permission was granted by Wiltshire County Council.
  Bowmer + Kirland has been confirmed as main contractor on the job.
  Rob Morris, Joint UK&I CEO and Managing Director for Rail Infrastructure said: “I’m really pleased that construction will soon begin on our world leading digital engineering, and
  
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• Bid race starts for £200m North Eastern universities deal

  16-12-2024 09:15
  
  The North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium has started the hunt for firms to join a £200m buildings upgrade framework.
  The four-year NEUPC minor works framework can be accessed by five of the region’s leading higher education institutions at Newcastle, Durham, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside Universities.
  Selected firms will deliver a mix of refurbishment works, typical of University buildings such as laboratories, small and complex lecture theatres, libraries and offi
  
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• Contract awards fall but data centres to drive 2025

  16-12-2024 08:58
  
  The construction industry posted a second consecutive month of falling contract awards in November according to the latest analysis by Barbour ABI.
  Awards values were down 35% in November following a 36% fall in October – continuing a trend set since the election with contract awards down 29% between Q3 and Q4.
  The drop included a 36% fall in residential projects to £1.6bn while infrastructure awards increased in November despite sitting 64% down from the 2024 average and being the t
  
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• Land remediation plans go in for huge Ravenscraig site

  16-12-2024 08:40
  
  A major planning application has been submitted to North Lanarkshire Council for the extraction and remediation works of 200 acres of land at the Ravenscraig former steelworks site.
  Parts of Ravenscraig require extensive remediation before any new building can take place including removal of remnants from steel production and deep reinforced concrete foundations.
  Work will see the extraction, recycling and backfilling of over 2,000,000 cubic metres of material.The latest application covers the r
  
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• Boot strikes JV deal to build £1bn of logistics schemes

  16-12-2024 08:35
  
  Henry Boot has teamed up with an investor to launch a new specialist industrial and logistics park development business which aims to develop £1bn of schemes over the next seven years,
  The new joint venture business with Feldberg Capital will be known as Origin, with Henry Boot Development taking a 25% stake.
  It will be seeded with an initial portfolio of three sites from Boot’s development pipeline worth £100m.First Origin logistics and industrial projects1.   S
  
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• Rayner to rip-up environment red tape for new schemes

  16-12-2024 08:28
  
  “Common sense” changes to environmental rules for new housing and infrastructure schemes are being proposed as part of the Government’s planning revolution.
  Developers will be able to pay into a new Nature Restoration Fund to meet their environmental obligations rather than negotiate on a scheme-by-scheme basis before being granted planning permission.
  A delivery body, such as Natural England, will then take responsibility for securing positive environmental outcomes like deliv
  
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