The City of London Corporation has granted planning permission for a venture between Hobart Partners and PineBridge Benson Elliot to develop a new office block in the Square Mile. ‘The Mark’ will provide 215,000 sq ft of new office space alongside 14,000 sq ft of cultural, food & beverage and retail space on Mark Lane

National Highways is set to hold a bidders day ahead of a delivery partners shake-up for its major programme of concrete road replacement and repair work across the country. The works will be split between two frameworks, one covering major renewals works and the other minor works and repairs. National Highways has costed the five-year

London private rental flats developer Telford Homes booked a £193m loss for last year after taking stock of potential remedial building safety works. The losses are a significant setback for global real estate investor CBRE, which bought the London housing developer/builder four years ago for £267m. Before the take-over Telford Homes espoused the merits of

Thousands of engineering construction workers at energy sites across the country have voted to strike. The action could include up to 3,000 workers at Stanlow, Fawley, Valero, Grangemouth and Mossmorran Oil Refineries, as well as at Sellafield nuclear facility. Further strike votes are also expected at Drax and Hartlepool nuclear power station in the coming