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Network Rail seeks contractor for £20m Waterloo refit

Train infrastructure firm Network Rail is searching for a contractor to refurbish its general offices in Waterloo, London... Network Rail has started the hunt for...

Galliford Try signs £46m Birmingham university contract

Construction firm Galliford Try has won a £46m contract to carry out work on behalf of Birmingham City University... A £46m Conservatoire in central Birmingham...

A 21st Century approach to infrastructure decisions

Amy Mount, Senior Policy Adviser at Green Alliance examines the opportunities available to improve public engagement in infrastructure decisions… The scale of change required to...

VolkerFitzpatrick wins Siemens factory contract

Contractor VolkerFitzpatrick will construct a wind turbine blade factory in Hull on behalf of Siemens... Hertfordshire-based contractor VolkerFitzpatrick will build a 430,000 sq ft factory...

Planning applications for new supermarkets fail to complete

Less than a third of planning applications for new supermarkets result in a completed project, according to new research... Data collected by construction intelligence firm...

New Construction Leadership Council announced

The government has announced business leaders will join ministers on the renewed Construction Leadership Council... In a bid to streamline the Construction Leadership Council the...

Self build on the increase

A new survey has revealed growth in the self build sector despite discrepancies in the way councils support it... According to a new survey by...

Public land database for London

A new initiative to create a database of publicly owned land in London has taken the first step... The first stage of compiling a register...

Brownfield planning rules may be relaxed to boost house building

Chancellor George Osborne is pushing plans to change the rules surrounding brownfield sites in a bid to increase house building across England... Housing developments on...

Canary Wharf to trial smart city technology

Canary Wharf Group is set to pilot new technologies as the latest winners of the Cognicity Challenge are announced... The Cognicity Challenge is a competition...

Five radical ideas for improving the planning system

Professor Yvonne Rydin of UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning presents five ideas that could result in a planning system that delivers a strategy that...

Planning (Wales) Act receives Royal Assent

Royal Assent has been given for the first separate planning Act since it was devolved in Wales... Planning in Wales took a step forward yesterday...

Lancaster village receives planning consent

A new project to construct 50 properties in a village near Lancaster has gained outline planning consent... Harrison Pitt Architects has negotiated a deal to...

Small housebuilders receive £100m boost

Under new measures revealed by Housing Minister Brandon Lewis small housebuilders will receive a £100m funding boost to support developments... The launch of the Housing...

Annual house price growth falls to a two-year low

The Nationwide has revealed the annual rate of house price growth fell to a two-year low in June... According to the figures the annual rate...

Four month high for UK construction PMI

The monthly Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) increased to 58.1 in June, reaching a four month high... According to the latest figures published in the...

Ordnance Survey: Connecting the lives of everyone in Britain

We are Britain's mapping agency. We make the most up-to-date and accurate maps of the country. But we're also a digital business, and we...

Planning granted for quarter of a million homes

The government has released figures showing the number of homes granted planning permission has reached levels higher than before the 2008 recession... In the year...

The Advantages of ‘Paper-Light’

By Andrew Hall, marketing manager, OKI Systems UK Ltd Despite moves to make businesses ‘digital by default’ and targets to ‘go paperless’; it is quite likely...

Plans to create new Sunderland village

A new urban village with 1,000 homes, a school, and sports facilities is being planned in Wearside, Sunderland... Councillors have kick-started plans to create a...

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