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• Homes England buys stalled Broad Marsh site

  31-03-2025 20:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Homes England has agreed to purchase the Broad Marsh site from Nottingham City Council.
  The home of the former Broadmarsh shopping centre has been left partially demolished since retail giant intu went bust in 2020 and the council took control of the site.
  Homes England will now acquire land to the west of the Green Heart, a multi-storey car park, Severns House and a former college site.It will now oversee completion of demolition and enabling works and look to attract private sector developers
  
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• Galliford Try and Breheny land latest Sizewell C road deals

  31-03-2025 16:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sizewell C has awarded more key contracts for road and infrastructure work as it moves forward in building the off-site infrastructure needed to help construct the nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast.
  Galliford Try will build a new 6.5km Sizewell Link Road and 1.8km Two Village Bypass and Breheny Civil Engineering will construct two new connecting roundabouts on the A12.
  The contracts follow the £19m award to Jackson Civil Engineering in January to deliver key road schemes for the p
  
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• Vistry go-ahead for 353 homes at Rochester Riverside

  31-03-2025 11:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Vistry and The Hyde Group have been granted planning consent by Medway Council for Phases 4 and 5 of the Rochester Riverside project in Kent.These latest developments will bring an extra 353 homes to the £419m regeneration scheme, carried out in partnership with Medway Council and Homes England.Designed by architects BPTW, the work will include 115 houses and 238 flats, crafted by Vistry under its Countryside Homes brand.
  With planning approval now in place, construction for Phases 4 and
  
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• M&E firm J S Wright collapsed owing £19m

  31-03-2025 09:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Midlands mechanical and electrical specialist J S Wright went down owing £19m to creditors.
  The employee-owned contractor, which worked on several London high-rise residential schemes including Grenfell, collapsed into administration last month after being hit by cost inflation and reduced payment on its jobs.
  According to a report from administrators FRP, trade creditors and suppliers are unlikely to see any of the £11.4m they are owed.The firm’s bank and loan note holders are
  
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• Weston targets Build to Rent with new division

  31-03-2025 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Weston Group has launched the new Weston Partnerships division to form development partnerships and joint ventures for Build-to-Rent (BTR) housing jobs.
  In the BTR sector Weston Partnerships has recently entered into an agreement with Royal London Asset Management to provide homes across two developments at Bracknell Beeches and Town Quay, Barking with Weston Homes overseeing construction.
  In the local authority housing sector Weston Partnerships has entered into an agreement with Barking and Da
  
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• Right to work checks to be extended to self-employed

  31-03-2025 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government is planning to bring in compulsory ‘right to work’ checks for the self-employed as part of a fresh crackdown on illegal migrant working and rogue employers.
  Contractors hiring workers will be legally required to carry out checks confirming that anyone working in their name is eligible to work in the UK, bringing them in line with present checks needed for employees.
  Home secretary Yvette Cooper said that the fresh changes would mean that for the very first time, employ
  
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• Midlands developer turns to London with £1bn resi schemes trio

  31-03-2025 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Midlands property investment group SevenCapital has unveiled details of a £1bn expansion into the London residential market.
  The business, founded in 2009 by chairman Bal Sohal and managing director Damien Siviter, is pressing ahead with three major pipeline projects in Kensington, Islington and the Isle of Dogs.
  Subject to planning consents, this will see over 1,000 homes in newly-built and converted heritage buildings.Of the three pipeline projects, the first a £500m residential sc
  
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• £140m cash injection to speed-up flood defence schemes

  31-03-2025 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government has “prioritised” £140m of funding to ensure that 29 flood defence schemes which are “in progress but struggling with cost pressures” can be delivered without further delays.
  The list of supported schemes includes projects in Great Yarmouth and the Alverstoke Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Scheme on the south coast.
  The move is part of a wider £2.65bn investment over the next two years towards the construction of new flood schemes and
  
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