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#1. Laing O’Rourke lands ￡700m hospital contract
Laing O’Rourke has been appointed preferred construction partner on a major new hospital job in Lanarkshire.
#2. Seminar programme live for UK Construction Week Birmingham
Innovation, inspiration and progression. That’s what the stage is being set for at this year’s UK Construction Week in Birmingham (3-5th Oct).
#3. Housing associations to cut home building by 22%
A perfect storm of construction inflation, higher interest rates, fresh regulatory pressures, and the soaring cost of debt is causing housing associations to slash building programmes.
#4. Affordable housing at crossroads as costs rise
Housing associations are slashing their building programmes because of rising costs, higher interest rates, rent caps and regulatory pressures.
#5. Heaton Group unveils ￡180m masterplan
The Heaton Group has unveiled its masterplan for the 17-acre Eckersley Mills site in Wigan, one of the largest brownfield mill sites in the North West.
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#6. TBM breakthrough on ￡100M Glasgow water resilience project
HB Tunnelling has completed the construction of a 252m long tunnel that will form a section of a new trunk water main in Glasgow.
#7. Burrell Foley Fischer’s Worcester theatre faces re-think due to escalating costs
Worcester City Council is seeking new ideas for two of the city’s Grade II-listed buildings, after Burrell Foley Fischer’s (BFF) plans to turn them into a 500-seat theatre were scrapped.
#8. Spitfire Homes granted planning permission for more than 300 homes across the Midlands
Midlands-based homebuilder Spitfire Homes has secured planning permission for 351 homes across the Midlands in just one week.
#9. Great Yarmouth seeks developer for ￡65m North Quay regeneration
Great Yarmouth Borough Council is working up plans for a ￡65m regeneration scheme of North Quay Riverside Gateway in the town.
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