Kier said that its half-year results for the six months to 31st December 2020 would be ‘materially better’ than the previous year. In recent years Kier has made an interim pre-tax loss of £45.3m (2018) and £41.2m (2019). In a trading update the board said that the group performed well in the first half and…
Under new reforms, companies that have signed up to the Prompt Payment Code (PPC) will have to pay supplier that have fewer than 50 employees within 30 days – half the time outlined in the current code. Despite almost 3,000 companies signing the PPC, poor payment practices are still rife, with many payments delayed well…
CGI of the planned hotel and office block Tellon Capital, working with Whitbread, have obtained planning consent for the redevelopment of Cassiobury House in Watford Junction to deliver a new 168-bed Premier Inn hotel and 54,000 sq ft of office space. Cassiobury House was constructed in the late 1970s and is less than 200 metres…
Site of the planned distribution park, near the M1 motorway Developer Gazeley has secured approval from North West Leicestershire District Council to develop the 68-acre site. Until 2004 the site was a coal lounge, coal preparation and disposal point but is now disused. Most of it is identified as suitable for employment provision in the…
Andy Swinnerton Andy Swinnerton now joins Aggregate Industries’ executive committee and will be responsible for growing its Aggregates business unit. He joined Aggregate Industries in 2016 from Tarmac as a business director. He is one of six managing directors on Aggregate Industries’ executive committee, alongside Chris Hudson (Asphalt), Max Colligan (Readymix), Simon Marriott (Concrete Products),…
Image by ©LDN Architects The applications are for listed building consent and building warrant approval. The applications, submitted by project architects LDN Architects, are in preparation for the main building works contract. This contract will be subject to a tender process beginning this spring. The applications cover the works necessary to restore the Category A…
The leisure-based destination is planned for West Kinfauns, where Morris Leslie has its headquarters. The development would include a four-star hotel, lodge-style cabins and a museum telling the story of transport and vehicles over the last century, with a focus on the impact of those from Scotland on this and more specifically the local area….
Avanton’s planned flats on Manor Road, Richmond upon Thames The development will comprise 453 flats on a 4.5 acre site off Manor Road in Richmond upon Thames, southwest London. Avanton bought the Homebase site in 2018 and submitted a planning application, which was initially refused by Richmond Council in 2019. The mayor of London intervened,…
Brigadier Jim Crawford Ramboll works for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation and the Foreign Commonwealth Development office, as well as the Falkland Islands government. Jim Crawford joins Ramboll following a 30-plus year career in the British army. He was most recently head of infrastructure and estate strategy, UK Strategic Command. In this role he oversaw a…
The cuts are likely to lead to the winding down of TfN’s integrated and smart travel programme as well as job losses. Although yet to be finally agreed, the Department for Transport has set out its intention to award less than half the funds that TfN pitched for in its spending review bid last year….
