Tom O’Brien, director, O’Brien Contractors, reflects on the construction commitments made in last week’s Autumn Budget and why these need to go further.
Interserve has secured a £15.6m contract from Hertfordshire County Council, through the Eastern Highways Alliance Framework 2, to upgrade a section of the A602 in Hertfordshire.
Great Places Housing Group has revealed the successful contractors and consultants which have won a place on its new £750m Innovation Chain North (ICN) framework.
Havering Council and Wates Residential have submitted plans for the Waterloo Estate, the largest council estate regeneration planning application to be submitted this year in London.
Housebuilding could fall by around 38% over the next year, as new research from the Centre for Policy Studies warns of a potential sector collapse if the economy fails to bounce back post-Covid.
With work on many local development sites at a standstill, East and West Sussex local authorities and Brighton & Hove City Council have written to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government asking for urgent steps to curb ‘speculative and unplanned development’.
Plans have been submitted for the first phase of the £115m Canal Village in Warwickshire, which will see the creation of 212 new homes and community facilities.
The two-year extension will see Mitie continue to provide engineering, maintenance and repair services to Groupe PSA’s production plants, parts distribution centre and offices in Luton, as well as its office building in Coventry.
A new development of 159 homes for first-time buyers and families in Farnborough will soon be under construction due to a collaboration between Southern Housing Group and CALA Homes.
