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• Developer fined after site hit with nine safety notices

  18-03-2025 23:16
  
  A London property developer has been fined £63,000 after safety inspectors slapped nine enforcement notices on a construction site in east London.
  Nofax Enterprises Limited was investigated by the HSE following four visits to its site on Dalston Lane over a 13 month period between 2020 and 2021. The company was overseeing the construction of a four storey building on the site, containing nine flats and large basement to house a youth club.
  Failures identified by HSE inspectors – incl
  
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• Ringway retains Hertfordshire highways after 12 years

  18-03-2025 15:58
  
  Ringway has beaten two rival bidders to renew its Hertfordshire County Council highways maintenance contract for a further seven years.
  The new term contract starts from 1 October 2025 and is expected to be worth £385m over the initial term.
  There is also the potential to be extended for a further two periods of seven years to 21 years in total, according to the original tender documents.Ringway will focus on improving the operational delivery of day-to-day services such as road maintenanc
  
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• Driver pulls knife on Balfour Beatty road worker

  18-03-2025 13:07
  
  A raging driver threatened a Balfour Beatty highways worker with a knife in East Sussex last week.
  The attack was revealed by Balfour Contract Director Marc Woodall during an ITV report on road worker abuse.
  Woodall said: “Only in the last week in East Sussex, we had an incident where we had a road closure in place.“A member of the public was frustrated and wanted to get through. When our staff refused, that individual pulled a knife and physically and verbally threatened them.&rdquo
  
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• Wates starts £300m Suffolk prison expansion

  18-03-2025 11:52
  
  Wates Group has started work on a major expansion programme at HMP Highpoint in Suffolk.
  The £300m project will provide 741 new category C prison places in three four-storey houseblocks as the Government targets 14,000 more prison places by 2031.
  Also the project feature ancillary facilities including a healthcare building, workshop and teaching facilities, and upgrades to several existing buildings including the gym and gatehouse.The project will also include apprenticeships, jobs for pri
  
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• Southern Housing seeks 10 firms for £1.7bn upgrade deal

  18-03-2025 09:12
  
  Social housing provider Southern Homes is on the hunt for 1o firms to sign up to a 20-year programme of housing fire safety and upgrade work.
  The association said the framework covering London, Kent and Sussex could be worth up to £1.7bn.
  It is breaking the work up into 10 lots. Four will covering external elements – windows, roofs and non-fire doors plus associated works – and six for Internal elements – kitchens and bathrooms plus associated works – split on a geo
  
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• Pothole patch-up policy fails as roads repair backlog hits £17bn

  18-03-2025 08:44
  
  The highways repairs backlog facing local authorities in England and Wales has hit a fresh high of £17bn despite increased funding to fill potholes.
  Figures from this year’s Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey report reveal the road condition crisis is worsening despite on average one pothole being filled every 18 seconds, every day, for 10 years
  Now 34,600 miles of roads have less than five years’ structural life remaining, with the average road only resurfa
  
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