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CONSTRUCTION has started on a new £6 million sports hub at a prestigious, academically non-selective state boarding school in Woking. Award-winning construction firm Stepnell has been appointed by Gordon’s School to build a new sporting facility for the pupils and... View Article

Specialist developer of brownfield regeneration projects, Inland Homes has submitted a detailed planning application for more than 500 homes at Hillingdon Gardens, a six-acre site formerly known as the Master Brewer Hotel in Freezeland Way, Hillingdon. The detailed plans will... View Article

More than a third of home improvers have cancelled or postponed plans to either move or improve due to uncertainty surrounding Brexit over the past two years, according to new research by VELUX. The research among 2,000 homeowners with plans... View Article

Housing 21 has been shortlisted for a national industry award celebrating the UK’s best housing developers. The leading not-for-profit provider of Retirement Housing and Extra Care services has made the Inside Housing Development Awards shortlist in three categories: Best older... View Article

Ambitious plans for a major multi-million-pound city living development at the heart of City of Wolverhampton have moved onto the next stage. The Brewers Yard scheme is proposed for ten acres of brownfield land neighbouring University of Wolverhampton’s Springfield Campus.... View Article

WORK is underway on a pair of projects that will help meet the growing demand for social housing in Leicestershire. Woodhead Group has started work on site for 29 homes across the city of Leicester with Leicester City Council and... View Article

The Weston at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park is one of six buildings nominated for the 2019 RIBA Stirling prize. The fall protection specialist, SFS, has installed its unique Soter horizontal lifeline system on the new visitor centre and gallery on... View Article

The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) has announced that ‘Power’ will be the theme of the next festival, taking place across London from 1 -30 June 2020. The London Festival of Architecture is the world’s largest annual architecture event and... View Article

Electrical distributor Rexel UK announced it will be aiming to raise tens of thousands for its newly announced official charity partner, the Electrical Industries Charity (EIC), in the first few months of the partnership. For more than 100 years the... View Article

CPC, the new partnership between LHC and Northern Housing Consortium, has provided a fast and efficient procurement framework solution for the construction of Northumberland County Council’s first ever building project utilising the latest innovations in offsite construction. The result is... View Article

A planning application by S1 Developments for the ‘Skyliner’ site in Leith has been granted, subject to conditions, by City of Edinburgh Council Development Management Sub-Committee. The committee voted in favour of a 338 apartment Build-to-Rent (BTR) scheme on a... View Article

Deal completed with Aviva Investors for a major development above and around Crossrail infrastructure and opposite the new Liverpool Street Elizabeth line eastern station entrance at 1 Liverpool Street Latest in a series of development sites, which are raising vital... View Article

Edinburgh Marina Holdings, the developer of Edinburgh Marina, recently announced that they have secured another successful planning appeal with detailed consent granted by the Scottish Government to develop The Moorings, comprising 100 spacious one, two and three bedroom apartments with... View Article

Gabriela Hearst, the sustainable global fashion brand with an uncompromising commitment to the environment, has opened its first London outpost, designed by Foster + Partners. Having created a pioneering model for ecologically responsible clothing and accessories, the New York-based label’s... View Article

A mixed-use building naturally combines commercial, residential, hospitality, and retail within a single property, which can make designing a fire detection system quite complex and challenging. The way that each part of the building is used, the movement of people,... View Article