Projects

Award-winning housebuilder The Hill Group and Homes England, with its National Housing Bank, have today completed the acquisition of Cambridge East, a strategic site, which will deliver one of the UK’s largest urban extension projects. Cambridge East is a strategic acquisition that will support the delivery of more than 10,000 new homes, thousands of jobs…

Leading contractor GRAHAM has been appointed by the University of Bath to progress plans for a major new purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development at its Claverton Down campus. The scheme, which is being procured via the Southern Construction Framework (SCF), will see GRAHAM work in partnership with the University under a two-stage Pre-Construction Services Agreement…

The locations of seven new towns have been named for consideration as part of the most ambitious housebuilding programme in more than half a century. Built for the future from the ground up, the next generation of new towns will create well-connected new communities with homes, jobs, schools, green space and transport links planned from…

The Green Quarter is a 45 hectare brownfield site that lies alongside the Great Western Railway between the Grand Union Canal and the Southall Crossrail station in the London Borough of Ealing. The site was formerly home to the Southall Gasworks which closed in 1973, leaving behind an underutilised and inaccessible site requiring revival. JTP's…

Forest City 1 is an ambitious project to build an affordable new city east of Cambridge, which will house 1 million people in 400,000 affordable homes. The forest will be core to its design and function. Richard Beresford, Chief Executive of the National Federation of Builders (NFB), said, “Forest City 1 is a chance for…

Therme Manchester, the UK’s first urban wellbeing resort, has appointed leading construction and engineering company Sir Robert McAlpine (SRM) as the Construction Manager for a landmark project at TraffordCity, Manchester. The appointment follows the announcement of a strategic joint venture between Therme Group and CVC, one of the world’s leading private markets investment firms. The…

Construction firms have been given the certainty and confidence they need to invest in major UK infrastructure projects as the government publishes details of hundreds of live schemes, underpinning the delivery of the government’s landmark Year Infrastructure Strategy. This Infrastructure Pipeline will provide real time updates on 780 planned private and public sector projects, giving industry…

Plans to deliver nearly 2,000 new homes as part of one of East London’s largest estate regeneration schemes have been approved by Tower Hamlets Council. The project will see the complete transformation of the Teviot Estate in Poplar, replacing outdated housing with up to 1,928 new homes, 35% of which will be affordable, alongside new green…