More news – Page 274
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Comment
A welcome strategy – but 30% of homes will still miss the target
The heat and buildings strategy is not radical enough and our approach to energy efficiency remains piecemeal and disjointed, says Stuart Fairlie
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News
Materials and labour squeeze puts brake on housebuilding
Latest figures from NHBC show 8% quarter on quarter drop in completions
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Work finally starts on resi job in Theresa May’s constituency
Maidenhead scheme was given planning three years ago but stalled because of funding issues
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Infrastructure tipped to receive £7bn ahead of Budget
The Treasury has revealed allocation details, while just £1.5bn of the funding is new money
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Sunak to announce more than £1.5bn for cultural and sports projects
Funding to help build or upgrade up to 8,000 sports pitches in trailed pledges ahead of Wednesday’s spending review
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Government to announce nearly £2bn for housing on brownfield sites
Critics say trailed spending review pledge is not enough
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Comment
There are tough times ahead – but we're not going back to the future
Rising costs and inflation are now inevitable but the economy is better placed to survive than it was in the 1970s, Richard Steer says
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News
HS2’s Euston station to be downsized, government confirms
Latest update also admits protestors have now cost project up to £80m
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22 Bishopsgate developer drafted onto £1bn South Bank site
Lipton Rogers brought in as Foster & Partners replaces Wilkinson Eyre on Blackfriars scheme
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Features
Circus act: Creating Lucent behind the Piccadilly Lights
The space behind the world’s most famous advertising hoarding has been empty since the 1950s. Now Land Securities is building a 144,000ft² mixed-use scheme – while keeping those lights on. Thomas Lane reports
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SMEs chasing £600m regional frameworks for small housing schemes
Set of five frameworks to last for up to six years
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Ballymore sends in plans for Royal Docks homes
Scheme will be developer’s third in Newham area of east London
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CLC announces panel for key COP26 conference event
Keltbray and Travis Perkins chiefs to lead debate on how industry can reach net zero
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Comment
Labour’s alternative planning proposals
A potentially influential private member’s bill sets out four key changes to planning law, writes Katherine Evans
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News
End of an era as Steve Pycroft calls time on Mace
Former boss credited with turning firm into major contracting force
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Nearly 150 firms owed £100,000 or more by collapsed NMCN
Administrators’ report says firm owes £60.5m to unsecured creditors
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O’Rourke gifts business £58m loan as contractor completes refinancing
Chief executive and brother make move as part of refinancing completed earlier this month
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Firms on notice for £4bn modular housing framework
Full contract notice to be published next month
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Fall in average earnings for skilled construction labour in several regions
Pay in the West Midlands fell by nearly 5% in September following 6.2% rise in August