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• Hill and L&G partner on £450m Coventry city centre revamp

  12-06-2025 18:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  House builder Hill Group has struck its first partnership with L&G to deliver 200 affordable homes in the opening phase of Coventry’s £450m City Centre South redevelopment.
  The deal will see L&G take ownership of 145 homes for social rent and 55 for shared ownership, spread across the first four blocks fronting Queen Victoria Road and Market Way.
  These units form part of phase one of the wider regeneration, which will deliver 991 homes, 8,000 sq m of commercial space and 17,0
  
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• Taylor Wimpey fined £800k after apprentice falls down stairwell

  12-06-2025 14:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  Taylor Wimpey has been fined £800,000 after a teenage apprentice was injured when a temporary stairwell covering collapsed.
  Charlie Marsh, 17, had been working as a contractor on a Taylor Wimpey site as it built around 450 new homes on its Meadfields site in Weston-Super-Mare.
  The apprentice bricklayer, from Whitchurch in Bristol, was less than 12 months into his career when the incident happened.An HSE investigation found that on 22 August 2023 Marsh had been loading concrete blocks onto
  
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• Construction growth of 0.9% bucks wider shrinking economy

  12-06-2025 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  Construction output rose 0.9% in April, marking the third month of growth in a row and defying a 0.3% drop in overall UK GDP.
  The latest ONS figures show new work drove the gains, jumping 1.4%, while repair and maintenance edged up by 0.3%.
  Infrastructure and private commercial jobs led the new work charge, up 2.0% and 1.7%, respectively. The only fall came from private industrial work, down 1.2%.Output in the three months to April rose 0.5%, with new work up 0.9% and maintenance just 0.1%.
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