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Manchester secures £50m from brownfield housing fund

5 Feb 24

Source: https://housingdigital.co.uk/manchester-secures-50m-from-brownfield-housing-fund/

Manchester City Council says recent successful bids for funding from the combined authority will help it build over 1,700 genuinely affordable homes.

London scheme revamped to house stunning Roman mosaics

5 Feb 24

Source: https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2024/02/02/london-scheme-revamped-to-house-stunning-roman-mosaics/

Landsec and Places for London have secured planning consent for a major London Bankside office-led development after design changes to protect the sites Roman history.

Gove and Khans row over Londons housing delivery numbers explained

5 Feb 24

Source: https://www.building.co.uk/focus/gove-and-khans-row-over-londons-housing-delivery-numbers-explained/5127599.article

Not the right plan for London? Or is Goves intervention a desperate political stunt? Olivia Barber finds out how the mayors spatial development strategy become the centre of a spat in this year of multiple elections

Demolition of Birmingham Ringway Centre approved

5 Feb 24

Source: https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2024/02/02/demolition-of-birmingham-ringway-centre-approved/

Developer Commercial Estates Group has finally secured planning for a triple tower scheme of over 1,750 flats on the site of the vast curving Ringway Centre block in central Birmingham.

Developer wanted for Limmo tower blocks

2 Feb 24

Source: https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/developer-wanted-for-limmo-tower-blocks

Places for London is looking for a private sector partner for a development scheme at the Limmo Peninsula in Newham, with the potential for other sites to be added in the future.

Pipeline Framework: Global Talent Visa

2 Feb 24

Source: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search/Results

A pipeline has been launched for Global Talent Visa.

Main works start on £8.5m Derbyshire school rebuild

2 Feb 24

Source: https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/main-works-start-on-85m-derbyshire-school-rebuild

Originally built in the 1930s, parts of Bramley Vale Primary School, near Chesterfield, had come to the end of their life, with continual repair no longer proving cost-effective.

Student accomodation plans for former shopping arcade

2 Feb 24

Source: https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/eastmidlands/news/2081542-student-accomodation-plans-for-former-shopping-arcade

A section of a city centre shopping arcade may undergo expansion and conversion into student housing.

£50m Edinburgh city centre hotel plan recommended for approval

2 Feb 24

Source: https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/articles/ps50m-edinburgh-city-centre-hotel-plan-recommended-for-approval

The site, at the junction of Queensferry Street and Shandwick Place, comprises a group of dilapidated buildings which were, until recently, home to a lap dancing venue, a backpackers hostel, and short-stay residential accommodation.

Compulsory Purchase Orders to build £89.2M Banwell bypass granted

2 Feb 24

Source: https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/compulsory-purchase-orders-to-build-89-2m-banwell-bypass-granted-01-02-2024/

The Department for Transport (DfT) has greenlit North Somerset Council to use Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs) to buy land needed to build the £89.2M Banwell bypass.

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