The tunnel would put A303 traffic out of site from Stonehenge The campaign group, calling itself Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site, wants the court to rule that Planning Inspectorate advice is binding on ministers, not advisory. The Planning Inspectorate recommended that consent for the £1.7bn scheme be withheld but transport secretary granted the necessary development…
Plymouth Magistrates’ Court heard how on the 12th April 2019 an employee became trapped when the truck overturned on the construction site. The employee was not wearing a lap belt and he was operating the dumper truck without deploying the roll-over protective structure (ROPS). He survived but suffered multiple crush injuries to his body, when…
The driver had been given no training and was unsupervised when his forward tipping dumper truck overturned and killed him. Swansea Crown Court heard how on 1st October 2016 the employee was working alone at a construction site in West Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan. He was operating a dumper around a construction site that had…
The 75 homes will be built at its Bertha Park Village development in Perth, Scotland. The entry into PRS housing for families to rent is expected to provide the company with an additional and secure revenue stream. Bertha Park comprises private and affordable housing, alongside neighbourhood amenities, such as a convenience store, playpark and secondary…
The interim funding available from the Affordable Housing Supply Programme in 2021-22 has been increased from £300m to £500m ahead of January’s Scottish Budget. The Affordable Housing Supply Programme helps to deliver homes for social rent, mid-market rent and shared equity. Communities secretary Aileen Campbell said that housing providers and the construction sector will now…
The hydrogen will be produced through electrolysis powered by an offshore wind turbine Gas network company SGN says that customers in Fife will be the first in the world to heat their homes and cook their food using 100% zero-carbon hydrogen. The hydrogen, which will be produced through electrolysis powered by an offshore wind turbine,…
Nadhim Zahawi, minister for construction and vaccines Nadhim Zahawi will double up as a parliamentary undersecretary of state at the Department of Health & Social Care as well as remaining a parliamentary undersecretary at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). His existing responsibilities at BEIS include industrial strategy, business and construction. He…
Darren Butson Darren Butson joins Munnelly Support Services from the £1.5b Elephant & Castle redevelopment in south London, where he spent the past six years with Lendlease. He joined Lendlease in 2008 and began his time there as head of logistics, then project manager, for the London 2012 Olympics’ Athletes’ Village. Previously he had worked…
Procurement for Housing is working with Building Better to develop the £600m volumetric framework which will go live in spring 2021. The 25 housing associations that make up the alliance have committed to manufacturing 800 homes via the new framework and they have a broader pipeline of 4,500 properties that will be factory-made over the…
What the contractors found under Clarence Pier Playing Field VSBW, a joint venture between VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster, began work in September on Portsmouth City Council’s £100m Southsea coastal scheme. Within days the crew had unearthed the remains of old sea defences under Southsea’s Clarence Pier Playing Field, during topsoil stripping for a compound area…
