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• Build to rent deal kick starts 3,500-home Dagenham scheme

  20-02-2025 22:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Joint venture partners Hill Group and housing association Peabody have struck a £116m deal with Goodstone Living to deliver 360 build to rent homes at the planned redevelopment of the former Ford plant in Essex.
  The rental flats will form part of the first phase of the regeneration of the former Ford Stamping Plant site into a mixed-use neighbourhood known as Dagenham Green.
  Overall the JV partnership aims to deliver the first 935-home phase of the Dagenham Green scheme.Once complete, Peab
  
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• JRL Malaysian backers plan 580-home Wheat Quarter scheme

  20-02-2025 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Malaysian developer that bought a 50 stake in contractor JRL has submitted plans to redevelop the former Shredded Wheat factory site in Welwyn Garden City.
  The property giant IJM Land in partnership with Treble Eight Group aims to build up to 580 homes at the site as well a 180-room apart-hotel, providing self-catering apartments as well as ordinary hotel facilities.
  Proposed leisure facilities include repurposing the famous silos into a sky bar and restaurant.The plans come just over 12 mon
  
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• £110m Liverpool Metalworks resi scheme gets nod

  20-02-2025 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Liverpool-based Jarron Developments has gained planning for its £110m Metalworks residential scheme in the city’s Pumpfields district.
  Designed by architect Falconer Chester Hall, the 16-storey scheme will transform a prominent site at the junction of Leeds Street and Vauxhall Road.
  Metalworks will provide 401 homes, including 396 flats and five townhouses with retail and communal spaces on the ground level.Amenities will include a cinema room, gym, and rooftop gardens and running tr
  
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• Graham lands £42m Woking road upgrade

  20-02-2025 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractor Graham has been awarded the contract by Surrey County Council to deliver improvements to the A320 north of Woking.
  The key infrastructure project has been funded through a £41.8m grant from Homes England’s Housing Infrastructure Fund.
  The scheme aims to increase capacity and improve traffic flow on the stretch of road between Chertsey and Ottershaw to unlock future housing developments across Runnymede.The A320 North of Woking scheme consists of major upgrades to four key
  
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• Building products firm fined £1m after double accident

  20-02-2025 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A specialist company that manufactures wood-based products has been fined more than £1m after two workers were injured in separate incidents.
  West Fraser (Europe) Ltd – formerly known as Norbord – pleaded guilty to several health and safety breaches related to two incidents that took place at its plant in Cowie within six months of each other in 2020.
  In the first Sean Gallagher, 29, a utility operator, suffered serious injuries after his leg became entangled in moving parts at
  
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• Recycled aggregate firms blast new waste crime levy

  20-02-2025 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Recycled aggregate producers have slammed the Environment Agency’s new levy on the industry to fund fighting waste crime by rogue operators.
  Firms that recycle and reuse millions of tonnes of demolition and construction waste to produce vital recycled aggregate complain they are being used as ‘cash cows’ by the regulator to recover policing costs of unrelated illegal waste activities.
  The Environment Agency plans to impose a 10% levy on compliant firms’ waste permit fees
  
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• Dandara 300 homes High Wycombe project approved

  20-02-2025 07:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  Dandara Living has secured planning permission to redevelop the Chilterns Shopping Centre to provide over 300 build-to-rent homes in the heart of High Wycombe town centre.
  The proposals will see two new buildings ranging in heights from 4-10 storeys separated by a new pedestrian street.
  Designed by Aros Architects, the scheme is inherently sustainable and includes the retention and refurbishment of several buildings along the southern boundary.Rachel Allwood – Planning Director, said Danda
  
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