You can get £5,000 towards new windows, depending on who you get to do the work The Green Homes Grant scheme, one of chancellor Rishi Sunak’s flagship Covid economic recovery measures, opened in September 2020 for an initial six months. It has no been given 18 months. The government has allocated £1bn for the scheme,…
Chairman Mark Beard In the first six months of 2020 Beard grew its half-year sales by 4.3% to £72.0m (H1 2019: £75.3m). Profit before tax was down by £300,00 to £1.4m (H1 2019: £1.7m). Operating profit was £680,000 for the first half of 2020, compared to £1.5m for the same period in 2019. Despite the…
A motorist caught on CCTV encroaching onto road works Incidents of civil engineering contractors enduring abuse from the public while working on the roads has increased by 10%, according to Highways England. Despite there being less traffic on the road, there has also been a rise in incidents of vehicle incursions into coned or fenced…
Rights:Community:Action (RCA) applied for a judicial review of the recent extension of permitted development rights. Two High Court judges yesterday dismissed RCA’s legal challenge to the use of statutory instruments (SIs) used to bring in the changes. The campaign group said that it would seek permission to appeal. Changes to permitted development rights introduced this…
Salisbury Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 18th October 2017, there was a gas explosion at a flat at Market Place, Chippenham, where construction work had been carried out to develop the property into flats. Following the gas explosion, an investigation by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) found that Prestige EA Ltd had failed to…
The prime minister’s plan covers 10 themes: offshore wind power; hydrogen; nuclear power; electric vehicles; public transport, cycling and walking; shipping and aviation; improving the energy efficiency of buildings; carbon capture: nature conservation; and innovation and finance. To read further details, see our separate report here. Here is a cross-section of comments that we have…
Plumbing and heating professionals who are operating under historic grading ‘grandfather rights’ are being warned that time is fast running out for them if they want to retain their grading card, without which they will be ineligible to work on sites. As part of a shake-up by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC), significant changes are…
Prime minister Boris Johnson The plan involves £12bn of public spending over the coming years in areas from energy generation to building retrofits. The 10 points are: Offshore wind: Quadrupling production capacity to 40GW by 2030, or enough to power every home. Hydrogen: Up to £500m has been allocated, including for trialling homes using hydrogen…
The development is designed by JM Architects Build-to-rent developer Placefirst has submitted an application for 370 new homes in Wolverhampton’s Canalside Quarter, close to the new £150m transport interchange on land off Lower Horseley Fields in the city centre. The scheme, designed by JM Architects, includes the restoration of old canal side properties. It would…
The Meridian Water masterplan The council has already secured planning permission for the infrastructure works and approved a framework contract with three major contractors – BAM Nuttall, Vinci Construction UK and VolkerFitzpatrick. They will install roads, pathways, bridges, utilities, flood alleviation and associated landscaping. Work is expected to start on site by autumn 2021 and…
