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• RED targets £325m turnover after growth shake-up

  10-11-2026 17:00 via Construction Enquirer
  RED Group is targeting a £325m turnover by 2030 after a £1.5m investment in reshaping the business for its next growth push.
  The building contractor lifted revenue 11% to £190m in the year to March 2026, extending an unbroken run of annual growth since it was founded a decade ago.
  Latest accounts show pre-tax profit slipped from £4.1m to £2.9m as the firm strengthened management, upgraded systems and expanded office space. Overheads climbed from £14m to £16m.RED expects another year of do
  
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• Viability crunch sinks £2.5bn Ladywood estate rebuild

  10-11-2026 16:28 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Berkeley St Joseph and Birmingham City Council have agreed to pull the plug on their £2.5bn Ladywood estate regeneration deal after concluding the plans are no longer viable.
  The partnership is being wound up more than three years after Berkeley was named preferred developer for the vast city centre rebuild.
  Rising construction and regulatory costs, coupled with a tougher housing market, have sunk the current proposals following seven years of work to establish the partnership and masterplan.Th
  
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• Muse gets go-ahead to advance Eccles town centre revamp

  10-11-2026 16:24 via Construction Enquirer
  Muse and Salford City Council have secured cabinet backing for a masterplan to regenerate Eccles town centre.
  The approval clears the way for detailed technical and feasibility work to turn the vision into individual development projects.
  New homes will form part of the regeneration, with separate planning applications to follow as proposals are worked up.The partners will also bring forward temporary uses and early improvements to inject life into the town centre while the longer-term schemes t
  
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• Reds10 lands design deal for Bicester asylum centre

  10-11-2026 15:05 via Construction Enquirer
  Offsite contractor Reds10 has been awarded the design contract for a controversial planned asylum seeker centre in rural Oxfordshire.
  Plans to convert MoD Bicester Site A into an asylum centre hit the headlines earlier this year when the nearby village of Piddington voted symbolically to leave the UK over proposals to house 1,256 asylum seekers.
  The government is trying to fast-track the plans but local campaigners have lodged a High Court challenge against the process.Yesterday a notice was pub
  
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• Tilbury Douglas snaps up Vinci director for northern push

  10-11-2026 09:03 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Tilbury Douglas has recruited Vinci construction director Dave Clarke to lead its Yorkshire and North East building business.
  Clarke takes the regional director role as the contractor targets further growth across the north, backed by national and regional framework places.
  He joins from Vinci, where he was construction director for the same patch. He previously worked at Shepherd from 2006 before joining Wates in 2015, where he became operations director.Clarke brings more than 20 years’ regi
  
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• Renaker unveils plan for 54-storey Salford tower

  10-11-2026 08:53 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Renaker has unveiled plans for a 54-storey residential skyscraper that would become the tallest tower in Salford’s growing Greengate cluster.
  The developer-contractor has launched public consultation on the proposed 166m Aldridge tower, which would deliver 556 apartments.
  Subject to planning approval, Renaker is targeting a December 2027 construction start, with the building programme expected to take three and a half years.Designed by architect Denton Corker Marshall, the tower would provide
  
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• Trainee scaffolder killed in five-metre fall

  10-11-2026 08:24 via Construction Enquirer
  
  A scaffolding contractor has been fined £16,000 after a trainee scaffolder died in a five-metre fall on a new housing job.
  Michael Swales was working for Ask Scaffolding Ltd on July 5 2023 at a residential development near Ripon in North Yorkshire.
  Swales and a colleague were erecting scaffolding at the front of a two-storey house under construction when he fell five metres after standing on an unsecured scaffolding board.An HSE investigation found that Ask Scaffolding Ltd had failed to ensure
  
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• Gateway 2 approval times improve to 20 weeks

  10-11-2026 08:17 via Construction Enquirer
  
  Gateway 2 approval times for new high-rise buildings and conversions have fallen to 20 weeks as applications plunged following the rush to beat the Building Safety Levy.
  New submissions dropped from 64 in September to just six in October after the levy came into force on 1 October. BSR believes the fall reflects a dip following the pre-levy surge.
  The rush had forced the regulator to bolster teams and triage applications as incoming schemes outpaced decisions.Latest figures for the 12 weeks to 1
  
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