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• Wates bags £23m Crown Estate green homes pilot

  23-10-2026 09:29 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Wates has scooped the Crown Estate’s £23m green housing pilot in Hemel Hempstead to help draw up the blueprint for a 4,000-home expansion.
  The 75-home Westwick Row scheme will be a proving ground for building greener homes with lower bills before lessons are rolled into the much bigger East Hemel development.
  Wates Residential saw off Greencore Homes and Kind & Co to land the two-stage job.
  It will first sharpen the design, construction plans and price under a pre-construction services ag
  
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• HBC Construction starts Dewsbury Market revamp

  23-10-2026 08:44 via Construction Enquirer
  
  HBC Construction has started work on the £18m redevelopment of Dewsbury Market in West Yorkshire.
  Work will complete in early 2028 to sensitively restore the historic market hall, preserving and enhancing its iconic glazed roof structure and distinctive metal architecture.
  To ensure existing traders can continue operating throughout the construction period, a temporary market has been created across Market Place, Longcauseway and Foundry Street.Lee Powell, Managing Director of HBC Construction,
  
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• Liverpool seals deal for 800-home Festival Gardens scheme

  23-10-2026 08:38 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Urban Splash and igloo have cleared a major hurdle in their bid to build 800 homes on Liverpool’s Festival Gardens site.
  The council has approved legal agreements with the joint developers paving the way for the waterfront scheme to advance, with around 440 homes earmarked for the first phase.
  The partners will now submit a planning application by the end of 2027 for the 27-acre site.They landed the job as preferred partners in August last year, beating rival bids from Muse, Vistry and CERT Pr
  
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• Wills Bros lined up for £220m A9 Pitlochry dualling

  23-10-2026 08:19 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Wills Bros is set to scoop the £220m contract to dual the A9 between Pitlochry and Killiecrankie, closing out the programme’s old procurement model.
  Transport Scotland has named the civil engineering contractor as its intended winner for the 6.4km stretch, with formal award subject to the mandatory standstill period.
  It will be the fifth A9 dualling scheme to move into construction and the last let as project-by-project tendering delivery model.The remaining five construction packages will be
  
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• £600m design race looms for £3.7bn Windermere clean-up

  23-10-2026 08:04 via Construction Enquirer
  
  United Utilities is preparing to launch a £600m design and integration race for its proposed £3.7bn overhaul of wastewater infrastructure around Windermere.
  The appointment will help shape one of the water sector’s biggest emerging construction programmes, including major tunnelling, new sewers, pumping infrastructure and advanced treatment works.
  A formal tender notice is expected in early November following preliminary market engagement.The initial design and pre-delivery phase is expected
  
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