construction news

The government’s flagship Levelling Up Fund is facing serious delivery delays, with nearly all projects running behind schedule and costs spiralling due to inflation and underdeveloped bids. A major evaluation of the £4.8bn programme has lifted the lid on the...

New home registrations have slumped by 59% in London, dragging on otherwise modest UK-wide growth in house building during the second quarter of 2025. Fresh figures from the NHBC show registrations across the UK rose 4% in Q2 compared to a year earlier. But this...

Maidstone Borough Council has kicked off the hunt for a contractor to deliver a £50m flats project on the former Springfield Library site in the Kent town. The two-block scheme will see 103 new flats built under a two-stage design and build procurement process. The...

Whitbread has secured planning permission to convert a former 11-storey council office block in Vauxhall in Central London into a 180-bedroom Premier Inn budget hotel. Lambeth Council’s planning committee voted unanimously this week to approve the proposals to change...

Billionaire hotel entrepreneur Surinder Arora has officially entered the race to expand Heathrow Airport unveiling a rival proposal to the operator’s own scheme. Dubbed Heathrow West, the new terminal and runway plan is being submitted to Government this week after a...

Construction will start shortly after planners green lighted the UK’s first floating padel tennis courts at Liverpool Waters. The development will feature three courts built on state-of-the-art floating platforms and the world’s first floating clubhouse. Peel Waters,...