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Plymouth City Council has given the planning thumbs up to a landmark 20-storey mixed-use scheme near the University. The scheme will provide student accommodation, offices, ground floor shops and a hotel The 1 Drake Circus project will see the demolition of the city’s Money Centre building to make way for 554 bed-student accommodation and a […]

Government intervention has calmed the capital’s residential market but, in turn, that means fewer homes being built. From a low of 2,080 in 2009, the market reached a peak of 15,728 in 2015, according to research from Molior London – the numbers suffered a momentary blip in the upper price bracket in 2014 thanks to […]

Landlord Grainger has agreed to acquire a 261 home private rented sector (PRS) build to rent development in Milton Keynes from Peveril Securities Limited for £63m. Peveril Securities will develop the site where Bowmer and Kirkland has been confirmed as main contractor. The scheme has planning consent and construction it scheduled to start by the […]

A joint venture of Graham/Hochtief is believed to have secured the first major contract for infrastructure works to pave the way for a £1.4bn redevelopment of the  Brent Cross Shopping Centre in north west London. The Enquirer understands the JV has bagged the deal ahead of its main rival BAM. The bid race started 12 months ago […]

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has today set up the first dedicated fund to build council houses in the capital. In heydays of the 1970s London councils were delivering 20,000 homes a year, but this has dwindled to just 300 homes because of central government rules and funding cuts. Now the Mayor, who grew up on a […]

Firm shells out £135m for Westleigh Countryside has splashed out £135m for regional housebuilder Westleigh Group. Based in Leicester, the firm posted an income of £150.6m in the year to March 2018 with an operating profit of £15.6m. It works across the Midlands and South Yorkshire and has a landbank of close to 5,000 plots […]

Port of Tilbury London has started the tender race for a new port terminal just to the east of its existing port in Essex The proposed Tilbury 2 port will be constructed on land that formed the western part of the old Tilbury Power Station and is expected to create over 200 construction jobs. A […]

Union leaders are calling for a radical overhaul of construction training after claiming thousands more youngsters are stuck on ‘dead end’ courses. A freedom of information request by Unite to the Government’s Skills Funding Agency revealed that 203,400 people undertook a full-time or part-time construction course in 2016/17  – a five per cent increase on […]

Developer Grosvenor Britain & Ireland is planning to invest over £1bn in its estate in London’s West End. Grosvenor has issued a public call for ideas on how to improve Grosvenor Square Over 10 years it aims to transform its London estate to tackle the pressures facing the capital by increasing capacity and creating better […]

Yorkshire potash mine developer Sirius Mineral has signed up Austrian civil engineering giant Strabag for the first of three big tunnel drives to transport excavated polyhalite mineral underground to the coast. Shaft sinking work at the Woodsmith Mine head Under the design and build contract, Strabag will drive a 13km tunnel from a planned shipping […]