Green Light for £35m Horsham Town Centre

03/03/2017

Plans to redevelop a key site in Horsham town centre in West Sussex have been given the thumbs up by council planners.

A joint venture between property development and investment company Reef Estates and Arcus-PCD aims to redevelop Piries Place with an Everyman three-screen cinema, a 92-bed hotel, shops, offices, and restaurants.

“Skills gulf” could see construction wages double

01/03/2017

Construction workers could see their wages double as the industry faces a “skills gulf”.

Liverpool Princes Dock 34 Storey Tower

24/02/2017

109m Princes Reach will become one of the tallest buildings in Liverpool.

Green Light for Sheffield's £175m West Bar Square

17/02/2017

A major mixed-use development in Sheffield has secured outline planning consent.  Councillors in the city approved plans for the £175m West Bar Square project, which will provide 700,000 sq ft of office space and 500,000 sq ft of residential apartments, as well as a four-star hotel and retail units.

Hundred more homes to be built in £360M regeneration project

07/02/2017

North east Coventry to see hundreds more homes build in second phase of £360M regeneration project.

Construction levels in UK regional cities have hit record levels

07/02/2017

The survey shows significant increases in activity in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Belfast.

Liverpool City Council building to become luxury hotel

02/02/2017

Liverpool City Council is set to sell its former administrative headquarters to a Singapore based developer who plan to turn it into a hotel.  The sale of the Municipal Building on Dale Street to Fragrance Group Limited (FGL) is set to be rubber-stamped next month. The building is on three floors with an extensive basement, and covers 11,494 square metres.

Plans for £50m Waverley Retail, Office and Leisure Scheme

01/02/2017

Plans have been unveiled for a new £50m 12-acre retail, office and leisure scheme at South Yorkshire’s largest ever brownfield mixed-use redevelopment.

Plans approved for £40m Redhill town centre cinema retail complex

25/01/2017

Reigate & Banstead Borough Council’s planning committee has approved plans for a £40m cinema, restaurant and retail complex in Redhill town centre.

The construction industry mourns the demise of Bob the Builder’s yellow hard hat

24/01/2017

It is a sad day for building sites. Thanks to new guidelines introduced by Highways England, the quintessential symbol of hard graft, the yellow hard hat, is to be thrown in the skip. Black, white, orange and blue are the new yellow, say the rules — according to the builder’s seniority.