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• TCC helps with worker apartments for huge theme park

  05-10-2026 17:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  As work begins on the UK’s biggest ever theme park development in Bedford, a leading Midlands construction consultancy is supporting a luxury apartment project to provide much-needed accommodation.
  Universal Studios is planning to open its UK resort in 2031. The massive project will include a theme park, hotels, shopping, dining and entertainment venues. It involves major road and infrastructure improvements including a new railway station. The entire project will provide thousands of jobs
  
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• Port giant calls for smarter handling of construction materials

  05-10-2026 17:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Peel Ports Group is calling for a smarter approach to how construction materials enter and move around the UK.
  The UK’s second largest port operator is making the call ahead of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first Budget, which it says is an opportunity to help the construction sector regain momentum.
  David Huck, Chief Operating Officer at Peel Ports Group, said: “Despite being tasked with an ambitious pipeline of projects, the construction industry is seemingly struggling to ov
  
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• Willmott Dixon cleared for £50m Leeds school rebuild

  05-10-2026 17:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon has secured planning clearance to press ahead with a £50m rebuild of Oulton Academy in Leeds.
  The Department for Education-backed scheme will sweep away ageing teaching blocks, some dating from the 1950s, and deliver a new school for 1,350 pupils.
  Enabling works begin this month after the firm carried out preparatory work during the summer holidays.Willmott Dixon will phase demolition and construction over several years to keep the academy, part of Carlton Academy Trust, ope
  
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• William Hare powers up profit despite sales slump

  05-10-2026 16:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Constructional steelwork giant William Hare shrugged off a sharp sales slump to lift profits as its spread of UK and overseas work helped it weather a tougher market.
  But group chief executive Susan Hodgkiss warned economic and political uncertainty was clouding project start dates, with more challenging conditions ahead.
  The country’s second biggest structural steelwork contractor grew pre-tax profit by 27% to £40m in 2025, despite turnover falling by a fifth to £338m.Hodgkiss
  
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• OCU sold after four-year growth blitz

  05-10-2026 10:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Infrastructure contractor OCU Group is changing hands after a four-year expansion spree that has seen revenue rocket to £1.2bn.
  Private equity firm Triton Partners has agreed to sell the business to TDR Capital in a deal that will hand the fast-growing utilities specialist to a new financial backer.
  Terms have not been disclosed.
  The sale comes after Triton drove through 18 acquisitions and transformed OCU from a regional utilities contractor into a much broader critical infrastructure bus
  
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• Plans go in for £1bn Northampton city centre overhaul

  05-10-2026 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A £1bn regeneration of Northampton’s long-derelict Greyfriars site has taken a major step forward after plans were formally submitted to West Northamptonshire Council.
  Developer ECF is seeking permission for up to 1,220 homes alongside more than 100,000 sq ft of retail, leisure, commercial and community space across the town centre site.
  ECF, the development partnership between Homes England, Legal & General and Muse, has lodged a hybrid application covering most of the regenerat
  
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• Carpenter killed in fall through floor

  05-10-2026 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A luxury house builder has been fined £120,000 after a carpenter died when he fell through an unsafe first floor while carrying out refurbishment work.
  Oxfordshire based WG Carter Limited was sentenced following the death of 59-year-old Richard “Felix” Roper, who fell from height while working at a domestic property in Gloucestershire.
  The father of two had been carrying out work on the first floor of Manor Barn House, Nether Westcote, on 30 August 2022, where extensive repairs
  
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• Winners named for £5bn Pagabo major works deal

  05-10-2026 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM and Morgan Sindall have emerged as the biggest winners on Pagabo’s new £5bn major works framework after landing places across every lot.
  The pair secured positions in all four project value bands as well as coveted collaborative partner roles on the four-year YPO framework.
  In total, 56 individual contractors have secured places across the framework, generating 114 appointments once repeat wins across the five lots are counted.
  Five contractors have been handed the key collaborat
  
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• Wates gets final green light for 1,000-home Harrow job

  05-10-2026 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates has finally secured full planning clearance for its £360m Poets Corner regeneration in Harrow, clearing the way for work to move ahead on more than 1,000 homes.
  Harrow Council has issued the formal decision notice after completing the Section 106 agreement, nearly a year after councillors resolved to approve the scheme.
  The move unlocks the former Civic Centre site for Wates Residential and the council’s Harrow Strategic Development Partnership.Detailed consent covers the first
  
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• Willmott Dixon wins £100m Brentwood shopping centre revamp

  05-10-2026 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon’s development arm and regeneration specialist Milligan have been picked to drive a £100m-plus overhaul of Brentwood’s Baytree Shopping Centre in Essex.
  Brentwood Borough Council appointed the pair through Pagabo’s developer-led framework to turn the ageing town centre site into a new leisure-led destination.
  The first phase will focus on the front of the centre, with plans for a boutique or premium cinema, restaurants, bars and upgraded public realm around
  
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