Berkeley Group’s St Joseph Homes business is set to become development partner for the regeneration of the vast Ladywood Estate in Birmingham. The £2.2bn estate renewal scheme, set over 60 hectares, will take more than 20 years to deliver building 7,000 homes, new schools, 14 hectares of green space as well as two public parks.

Procurement specialist Scape has launched the race to find contractors to deliver civils and construction works for the broad utility sector. Two new 8-year frameworks are planned for the sector, one covering England, Wales and Northern Ireland and another Scotland. The frameworks will operate under a parallel lotting structure offering a choice of two contractors

Lovell Homes has appointed Paul Challinor to head its expanding North West operation. Challinor joins from his previous role as regional managing director at Stewart Milne, taking over the managing director position from Lee Sale, who left the company in January. In his new position, Challinor will be responsible for a number of key developments

A Yorkshire groundworks company has been sold out of administration in a pre-pack deal which saves the jobs of its 15 employees – but suppliers and subcontractors have been left holding £745,000 in unpaid invoices. YPP Groundworks & Civils Ltd went into administration earlier this month and has been acquired by Yorkshire Pro Paving Limited.

Steelworkers at specialist contractor Severfield have ended three weeks of strike days after narrowly accepting a new wage offer. Workers at the steelwork contractor’s Dalton site voted 52% in favour of the latest offer from management. The deal sees an 8% uplift on all rates backdated from April to March 2024, plus a £900 non-consolidated

TfL has submitted to Government strategic business case plans to extend the DLR rail link from Beckton to Thamesmead through a new Thames tunnel. The extension of the DLR would improve transport connections and enable the construction of up to 25,000-30,000 new homes along the route. Under the business plan, DLR proposes an extension from

Russell WBHO has been appointed by developer Ask:PATRIZIA to build a £48m 344 bedroom new hotel at Baltic Quarter on Gateshead Quayside. The planning application for the 180,898  sq ft, nine storey hotel was approved by Gateshead Council in March and Russell WBHO is planning to start work on the two year build programme before

Plans to build a new road linking the M6 with south Lancaster have been shelved due to soaring cost pressures. The decision is a major setback for Costain, which was appointed last March to deliver detailed design and stakeholder engagement, as well as the construction work, once planning approval was in place. This decision to

Administrators for Henry Construction Projects have confirmed the majority of the contractor’s 40 staff have been laid off. Administrators from insolvency practice FRP has also said they are now working to gather information on remaining assets and events in the lead up to the collapse of the £400m turnover tower builder. It is understood several