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Pipeline Framework: 2023-152 Participant Audit Contract (PIN)

13 Nov 23

A pipeline has been launched for 2023-152 Participant Audit Contract (PIN).

New Wigan community given green light, with plans for 113 homes

13 Nov 23

New Wigan community given green light, with plans for 113 homes

Downing’s Falmer plans earn approval

13 Nov 23

Lewes District Council has approved Downing’s proposal for a 555-bedroom student accommodation development in Falmer, midway between Lewes and Brighton.

Profits glass half full at Lancashire brewer Thwaites

13 Nov 23

Daniel Thwaites, the Blackburn-based brewer, inns hotels and spas, and pubs group, said it has achieved a “solid” set of half year results, despite profits being cut by almost half the level of the previous year.

£84.5m Denbighshire mental health unit approved

13 Nov 23

A new £84.5m mental health care unit at a North Wales hospital has been signed off by Denbighshire planners.

Glasgow Central to undergo £5 million upgrade

13 Nov 23

GLASGOW Central Station is to undergo a £5 million project to enhance the passenger experience at the station, Network Rail has announced.

LDN Architects to lead Elgin Town Hall design team

13 Nov 23

LDN Architects is to lead a design team tasked with revamping Elgin Town Hall, as part of the £31.6 million project to create a cultural quarter in the city. The firm was appointed after impressing the local authority with its ‘clear’ and ‘thoughtful’ approach, as well as its ‘creative’ and ‘original’ concept designs. The council added that the firm pipped a number of ‘prestigious’ practices from across the UK, with 23 notes of interest in total. LDN Architects joins a wider project team of Narro, structural and civil engineers; Harley Haddow, building services engineer; Ironside Farrar, landscape architect; CharcoalBlue, theatre consultant; Sandy Brown, acoustic consultant; and OFR, fire engineer. The creation of Elgin’s cultural quarter comes on the back of significant planned investment from the Scottish and UK governments, as well as Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Moray Council. Several key sites will be redeveloped in the city to create a connected, accessible, and ‘inspirational’ centre.

Green light for new visitor facilities at iconic Bennerley Viaduct

10 Nov 23

Green light for new visitor facilities at iconic Bennerley Viaduct

Shropshire solar farm gets the go-ahead

10 Nov 23

Planning permission has been secured for a Shropshire solar farm, which is set to generate the equivalent electricity used for 11,300 houses.

Councillors warned of ‘corporate manslaughter’ as 200 homes approved

10 Nov 23

Campaigners in Derbyshire have cautioned councillors about potential “corporate manslaughter” consequences if a resident faces harm linked to a 200-home development approved on contaminated land.