Barratt Homes wins approval for 1000-home Tower Hamlets scheme
Posted: 26 November 2008Barratt Homes has won strategic planning approval for its 1000-home scheme on the site of St Andrew’s Hospital in Tower Hamlets.
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York House Construction in administration
Posted: 26 November 2008York House Construction, which has been accused of cover pricing in the Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) bid-rigging scandal, has gone into administration.
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Government urged to act fast on mortgage guarantees
Posted: 26 November 2008Fears of further house price drops and plummeting housing starts has prompted calls for the government to immediately act on plans to give mortgage guarantees.
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Floodable village greens unveiled in new DEFRA advice
Posted: 26 November 2008Floodable “village blues” should be built alongside the traditional village green, new planning guidance unveiled today will warn.
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Taylor Wimpey equity offer to lenders
Posted: 26 November 2008Taylor Wimpey to offer equity to lenders – so runs a newspaper headline this morning after the house builder’s shares slide by 37% yesterday to touch a new low of little more than 4p.
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Ed Miliband plans low carbon and nuclear strategy
Posted: 26 November 2008New energy secretary Ed Miliband will launch an industrial strategy to ensure British companies win work to re-build the UK’s nuclear industry and low carbon economy.
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Builders create £250,000 pooch pad in Gloucestershire
Posted: 26 November 2008Two Great Danes will soon be living in the yap of luxury as builders get to work on a £250,000 bespoke kennel featuring a spa, day lounge and a plasma television.
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Beckett argues Thames Gateway still 'strong'
Posted: 26 November 2008Housing minister Margeret Beckett has argued that the £9.6bn Thames Gateway project will remain "strong" despite problems in the economy.
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Kier bags £127m Academies work
Posted: 26 November 2008Kier has clinched two new academy deals worth a combined £127m in Cumbria and north-east Lincolnshire under the National Academies framework.
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Atkins lifts margin to 6.8% at half-year
Posted: 26 November 2008Atkins has made an interim pre-tax profit of £50m which represents a margin of 6.8%.
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Plant hire firms will axe 7,000 jobs during recession
Posted: 26 November 2008Hire firms will axe more than 7,000 jobs as a result of the recession, warned a leading business analyst.
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House building refugees chase BSF work
Posted: 26 November 2008Firms fleeing the house building slump are swelling the ranks of consortia bidding for a slice of the government’s £45bn Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.
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Contractors with direct workforces lose out as pay rates plummet
Posted: 26 November 2008Contractors with directly employed workforces are losing jobs as the recession sees labour rates plummet.
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Amey wins £560m Midlands MAC deal
Posted: 26 November 2008Solo bidder Amey has accelerated past four consortia to emerge as the preferred bidder for a highways maintenance deal worth up to £560m in the Midlands area.
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HMRC has collected just 8% of CIS fines
Posted: 26 November 2008The Revenue has only collected £5.5m of the £180m in tax fines dished out to contractors under the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS).
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David McLean creditors will get ‘pennies’ for outstanding debts
Posted: 26 November 2008Subcontractors are fuming after the new owners of David McLean homes dumped the company’s debts after buying the firm from the administrators.
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TfL opens bidding on £500m framework
Posted: 26 November 2008Transport for London is set to renew its engineering and project management framework and let up to £500m worth of work over the life of the four year package.
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Commercial (Refurb/Repair), Great Yarmouth, £1.50M
Posted: 26 November 2008Builders merchant depot.
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Road/Rail/Bridge (Refurb/Repair), Perth, £500K
Posted: 26 November 2008Road maintenance annual contracts 09 and 10.
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Road/Rail/Bridge (Refurb/Repair), Livingston, £1.10M
Posted: 26 November 2008Civic centre road improvements.
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