Go-ahead for £1.7bn Lewisham town centre overhaulDeveloper Landsec has got the planning green light to redevelop 1970s-built Lewisham shopping centre in south London into a new town centre district around an urban meadow.
The £1.7bn masterplan will deliver over 1,700 new homes alongside 660 student rooms, 445 co-living beds and a reimagined retail offer matching today’s floor…
Subbies spared in Ardmore Construction administrationSubcontractors have largely escaped the financial fallout from the collapse of Ardmore Construction Limited, with administrators listing just £1.26m owed to trade firms, excluding retentions.
Administrators confirmed there are no secured or employee preferential claims, with HMRC’s £148,000 bill to be paid in full.
With £2.8m cas…
American student accommodation giant lines-up first UK schemeAmerica’s largest student accommodation developer Landmark Properties has lined-up its first project in the UK.
Landmark has acquired a prime site on William Road in central London and plans a a new development of 225 purpose-built student beds.
The Zone 1 site is just a 10-minute walk from University College London (UCL), Euston…
40 firms win spots on £3bn Hyde build frameworkThe Hyde Group has picked 40 firms for a new £3bn main contractor framework, covering housing and regeneration projects across London, the South and East of England.
The seven-lot framework will be administered by National Framework Partnership and is open to other public sector bodies nationwide through a joining agreement.
Big names includ…
Multiplex lands £400m Dovetail Building dealMultiplex has been appointed under a pre-construction services agreement for The Dovetail Building at One Cutler Street in the City of London.
The 23-storey office tower has been designed by architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) for developer Brockton Everlast.
The scheme obtained a recent planning amendment which reduced further the tota…
Highways firm fined £1m after road worker killedMarlborough Highways Limited has been fined £1m after one of its employees was killed by a reversing road-sweeper.
Robert Morris, 48, was working on the resurfacing of Pemberton Road in Haringey on 30 May 2022 when he was struck by the vehicle.
A joint investigation was launched by the HSE and the Metropolitan Police.
The police submitted…
August output dip ends sluggish summer for constructionConstruction output fell 0.3% in August 2025, bringing to an end a summer of sluggish growth.
Latest figures from the ONS showed the sector lagging behind the wider economy, which grew by 0.1% in August, as many builders struggled to move from preconstruction to live site starts amid ongoing investor caution.
Across the three months to…
Plans in for final phase of London’s Elephant Park regenThe final piece of the Elephant Park regeneration in London’s Elephant and Castle area has gone in for planning closing out more than a decade of transformation across the 10-acre site.
Developer HUB has submitted proposals drawn up by architect AHMM to redevelop the 1.2-acre plot into a mixed-use scheme of 678 co-living homes and socia…
Kier scoops £700m Norfolk highways upkeep dealKier has secured a £700m deal to deliver Norfolk County Council’s new highways and infrastructure works contract.
It will replace incumbent maintenance contractor Tarmac in the region covering nearly 10,000km of roads across the county.
The long-term contract, starting in April 2026, will run for up to 14 years and includes surfacing, bridg…
Builder impaled on machinery after rooflight plungeTwo companies have been fined after a man fell through a fragile rooflight and impaled his leg on machinery below during over cladding work at a factory in Keighley,
A.T. Lee Properties Limited and LJH Property Limited were fined a combined total of more than £95,000. Directors for each firm were also given conditional discharges and ordered to…