Countryside Properties is setting aside £41m to cover post-Grenfell cladding and fire safety retrofits on its former building projects. The firm revealed its commitment to retrofit 69 buildings, as it unveiled improved results showing a
Month: November 2021
Galliard forms new partnership to build 850 homes
London developer Galliard Homes has teamed up with regional landowner-developer Apsley House Capital and Midlands-based property developer Wavensmere Homes to deliver a brace of schemes worth £300m. The two residential-led schemes, Belgrave Village in Birmingham
Leeds £270m Lisbon Square towers approved
Plans for a £270m mixed-use scheme to transform the former International Swimming Pool site in Leeds have got the green light. Development partners Marrico Asset Management and Helios Real Estate are behind the Lisbon Street
Engineers battle to repair power network after Storm Arwen
Engineers are battling to restore power to customers after Storm Arwen wreaked the “worst damage in 20 years” to the network. Teams at Northern Powergrid worked into the night across the North East, Yorkshire and
Green light for £65m canalside scheme in Wolverhamption
Full planning permission has been granted to build-to-rent developer Placefirst for 366 new homes and commercial space in the heart of Wolverhampton’s historic Canalside Quarter. Site preparation work is now expected to start next summer
Rocks smash site huts as quarry blast goes wrong
Breedon Trading Ltd has been fined £300,000 after blasting work at a Welsh quarry sent rocks flying into site buildings and beyond the danger zone. Llandudno Magistrates’ Court heard that, on 15 January 2020, a
Massive Stewart Milne development goes into administration
A subsidiary of Stewart Milne Group overseeing the planned construction of 3,100 homes near Aberdeen has gone into administration. FRP Advisory is now running Countesswells Development Limited (CDL) which was overseeing work at the Countesswells
HS2 pioneers first ‘box-slide’ bridge over motorway
HS2 joint venture contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci has started preparations for the first UK box slide for a rail bridge over a motorway. The Midlands project was originally planned as a traditional structure, which would have
Robertson submits £150m Cardiff Arena plan
A Robertson Construction-led consortium has submitted a hybrid planning application for the regeneration of Atlantic Wharf in Cardiff. A detailed application has gone in for phase one of the Butetown regeneration plan being promoted by
Cut-price home builds quadruple maintenance cost
Housing associations could be paying over four times more in average annual housing maintenance after scrimping on building budgets. That is the conclusion of an in-depth study by a leading cost consultant mapping average maintenance