Author name: Holly Willis

Service family accommodation in Putney, southwest London [MoD/Crown Copyright] The MoD will pay Annington £6bn to buy back 36,347 houses, saving £230m a year in rent. The announcement comes as the government starts work on a new military housing strategy, to be published next year. Key principles of the strategy will include: a renewal of

Tata Steel will supply JCB with ‘green’ steel Tata Steel will supply JCB with recycled ‘green’ steel from Port Talbot for its construction machinery after completing its transformation plans. This is the first supply agreement Tata Steel UK has made since announcing a £1.25bn joint investment with the UK Government to transition to high-quality, low-CO2

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves used her first budget to change inheritance tax rules In an open letter, led by Family Business UK, the trade associations warn that changes to business property relief (BPR) and agricultural property relief (APR) will starve their members and the economy of investment, lead to forced, premature business sales

Crown Heights in Basingstoke, built by Ardmore, was clad with the same material that was used on Grenfell Tower A significant ruling relating to building safety was handed down on Monday in BDW Trading Limited v Ardmore Construction Limited, with ramifications for the entire construction industry and all those involved in housebuilding industry, lawyers say.

the Blackpool Central site The £300m Blackpool Central development on the famous Golden Mile is described as the biggest single investment in Blackpool for more than a century. Plans for the 15-acres site include an indoor amusement park as well as hotels, restaurants and residential apartments. However, Nikal Ltd, the Manchester-based developer of Blackpool Central,

World Cement Association chief executive Ian Riley, author of the report Despite global decarbonisation efforts, it seems that the world will still be consuming more cement in 25 years’ time than it did 20 years ago. However, that cement is likely to have less embodied carbon than today. The World Cement Association (WCA) is forecasting