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• Quartet wins London council £570m home estate revamp

  20-02-2026 09:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  London’s Haringey council has selected a quartet of contractors to deliver its £570m Estate Renovation Plan to drive a decade-long upgrade of 20,000 council homes.
  The borough has split the programme into four geographic patches in a bid to speed up delivery and tighten accountability.
  Equans Regeneration will cover the west of the borough, United Infrastructure takes central areas, Hugh LS McConnell will handle the east (south), and Mulalley and Company has secured the east (north)
  
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• Drone squad to fight fly tippers

  20-02-2026 08:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  The Environment Agency is launching an upgraded 33-strong fleet of drones to fight fly tippers.
  The drones will carry laser mapping technology to capture evidence to help secure successful prosecutions of waste criminals.
  The agency has also developed a new screening tool that enables officers to scan and cross-check lorry licence applications against waste permit records – with suspect operators flagged before they have a chance to move waste illegally.The new capabilities are backed by a
  
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• Bradford’s 1,000-home City Village gets green light

  20-02-2026 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  Bradford’s long-awaited City Village regeneration scheme has cleared planning to pave the way for up to 1,000 homes in the city’s former commercial heart.
  The flagship scheme, driven by Bradford Council and regeneration specialist ECF – the partnership between Homes England, Legal & General and Muse – will transform the ‘Top of Town’ area covering Chain Street and both Oastler and Kirkgate closed shopping centres.
  Phase one has now been waved through and w
  
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• Signs of a building recovery as pipeline begins to stir

  20-02-2026 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  The first flicker of recovery is beginning to show across the building sector, with consultants and architects pointing to early signs that a market held back by delay and uncertainty may finally be edging forward.
  Cost consultant Gardiner & Theobald has revised its 2026 average tender price inflation forecast up to 3.0%, from 2.5%, reflecting persistent cost pressures and a pipeline that is starting to stir rather than stall.
  It is not a demand surge driving the upgrade, but a combination o
  
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• Contractors being conned by fake skills cards checks

  20-02-2026 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  Fraudsters have set-up a network of bogus websites in a bid to cheat the CSCS skills card checking system.
  The scam was rumbled by construction identity validation specialist PPAC Systems and some of the fake sites have been been shut down.
  But the sophisticated fraud could still see more unqualified workers get on sites because of its complexity.The scam involves setting up replica sites posing as the official place to validate CSCS cards offered by qualification body GQA.
  Each bogus card has a
  
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