Developer fined after site hit with nine safety noticesA London property developer has been fined £63,000 after safety inspectors slapped nine enforcement notices on a construction site in east London.
Nofax Enterprises Limited was investigated by the HSE following four visits to its site on Dalston Lane over a 13 month period between 2020 and 2021. The company was overseeing the construction of…
Ringway retains Hertfordshire highways after 12 yearsRingway has beaten two rival bidders to renew its Hertfordshire County Council highways maintenance contract for a further seven years.
The new term contract starts from 1 October 2025 and is expected to be worth £385m over the initial term.
There is also the potential to be extended for a further two periods of seven years to 21 years in…
Driver pulls knife on Balfour Beatty road workerA raging driver threatened a Balfour Beatty highways worker with a knife in East Sussex last week.
The attack was revealed by Balfour Contract Director Marc Woodall during an ITV report on road worker abuse.
Woodall said: “Only in the last week in East Sussex, we had an incident where we had a road closure in place.
“A member of the public was…
Southern Housing seeks 10 firms for £1.7bn upgrade dealSocial housing provider Southern Homes is on the hunt for 1o firms to sign up to a 20-year programme of housing fire safety and upgrade work.
The association said the framework covering London, Kent and Sussex could be worth up to £1.7bn.
It is breaking the work up into 10 lots. Four will covering external elements – windows, roofs and…
Pothole patch-up policy fails as roads repair backlog hits £17bnThe highways repairs backlog facing local authorities in England and Wales has hit a fresh high of £17bn despite increased funding to fill potholes.
Figures from this year’s Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey report reveal the road condition crisis is worsening despite on average one pothole being filled every…
Green light for 2,100 homes at old East London gasworksBerkeley Group’s St William division has finally secured full planning to restore the UK’s largest surviving cluster of Victorian gas holders to create 2,100 new homes within the heritage site.
The developer can progress the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks scheme in East London after completing a Section 106 legal agreement with the London…
Lifting regs review bagged up with ‘bat and newt’ red tape purgeThe Government called in key regulators today to firm up plans to speed up water projects, ease environmental red tape slowing house building and reform the industry LOLER lifting regulations.
Details of the measures will now be worked up but regulators were handed a set of clear instructions to lift barriers to economic…
House builders call for rethink on Building Safety LevyMore than 100 house builders have signed a letter calling on the Chancellor to reconsider plans for the new Building Safety Levy.
The levy is due to come into force later this year raising £3.4bn from developers forced to pay a fee on new homes.
The letter organised by the Home Builders Federation warns that the “nakedly anti-development…
Costain raids Balfour Beatty for new head of railCostain has hired Balfour Beatty rail operations director Alistair Geddes to become its rail sector director.
At Balfour Beatty, Geddes looked after a number of manufacturing facilities, frameworks and projects for clients including Network Rail, Transport for Wales, Transport for London and others in the private sector.
He has also held leading…
Plans in for nearly 900 homes at Manchester MayfieldLandsec has filed plans for the first phase of housing at its £1.4bn Mayfield regeneration scheme in Manchester.
Designed jointly by architects Studio Egret West and shedkm, the first 879 homes will be built over four blocks around a new park square, near Manchester Piccadilly Station
If approved, the flats will complete the first built phas…