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Bridgestone bags £18m care homes deal

26-08-2026 23:42 via constructionenquirer.com

Bridgestone Construction has been selected by Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for people in later life, to progress the £18m Park House development in Waterloo, Sefton, following a competitive tender through the ICN framework.
Park House is the second major scheme Bridgestone has secured through the framework, following the award of Chestergate in Stockport.
The scheme will create 90 new one- and two-bedroom specialist and affordable homes, compr

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Rayner tells councils to find sites for new housing push and funding

26-08-2026 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com

Councils across England have been ordered to review their house building plans and bring forward fresh bids for billions of pounds of still-unallocated affordable housing funding.
Housing secretary Angela Rayner and housing minister Matthew Pennycook have written to every council leader demanding authorities “scale up now” as the Government seeks to deliver the biggest council house building programme since the early 1980s.
Councils are being asked to review plans for increasing coun

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Rayner tells councils to find sites for new homes push

26-08-2026 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com

Councils across England have been ordered to review their house building plans and bring forward fresh bids for billions of pounds of still-unallocated affordable housing funding.
Housing secretary Angela Rayner and housing minister Matthew Pennycook have written to every council leader demanding authorities “scale up now” as the Government seeks to deliver the biggest council house building programme since the early 1980s.
Councils are being asked to review plans for increasing coun

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House builder went down owing subcontractors £35m

26-08-2026 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com

West Country house builder Devonshire Homes went into administration owing subcontractors and suppliers more than £35m.
The scale of the firm’s debts was revealed in a Companies House update by administrators Marsal Europe LLP .
Devonshire Homes went into administration in June when most of the 44 staff were made redundant.The administration affects Devonshire Homes Limited only and does not extend to other Devonshire Homes-branded developments or associated companies.
Devonshire Hom

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Kier seals £29m early works for £170m Blackburn biogas plant

26-08-2026 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com

Kier has started on a £29m early works package for United Utilities’ planned £170m advanced anaerobic digestion project in Blackburn.
The contractor is progressing design development, surveys, ground investigations, enabling works and site preparation at Blackburn Wastewater Treatment Works ahead of a decision on the main construction phase.
The scheme is being developed through United Utilities’ Enterprise delivery model, which brings together the water company’s o

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