Hopefully, for those of you with school aged children you enjoyed a break from the home schooling last week! Let’s hope that the Governments road-map to easing lockdown will bring us some positivity this week.
Here’s your weekly catch up with the latest construction news.
News Round up
In the South East, as part of Stevenage’s £1bn regeneration ptpgramme, plans are going ahead for a £8m project to build a new bus interchange. The City of London Corporation has approved plans for a second tower scheme in the Square Mile. In Acton, west London, enabling works to regenerate the Friary Park estate have commenced. Work is starting on a £140m luxury residential scheme in London’s Soho above the Elizabeth Line new western station entrance at Tottenham Court Road. A London developer has set up a £500m fund for strategic land acquisitions over the next three years, as part of a major expansion into the capital’s build-to-rent sector. In North London, the owner of a high rise block of flats has submitted plans to add three extra rooftop floors to the 17 storey building to pay to replace flammable ACM cladding.
In the South West, The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has given the go-ahead to start main works for a new MRI suite and 24-bed Haematology Oncology Ward in Truro.Cardiff Interchange private rental flats project has become the first UK building to be certified under a new sustainability standard – Home Quality Mark ONE – at design stage. HQM ONE is BRE’s new benchmarking standard for sustainability and quality in housing.
In the North West, Everton football clubs £500m stadium dream has moved a step closer to becoming reality, despite concerns from conservation groups. Planning consent has been granted for a 188-bedroom hotel in the Greengate regeneration area of Salford. Plans have been submitted for the first phase of the regeneration of Collyhurst Village, part of the city’s ambitious £4bn Northern Gateway project. One of the first office developments in the UK committed to being ‘net zero in operation’ has been given the green light in Salford. In Cheshire, energy companies plan to build a £600m facility at Essar Oil UK’s Stanlow manufacturing complex to convert non-recyclable household waste into sustainable aviation fuel.
