Jun 26, 2026 | Finance and Markets, Housing, Infrastructure, News, Projects, Social Value, Sustainability
Regeneration specialist Watson has unlocked the redevelopment of the former Pit Pony Inn site in Ashton-in-Makerfield, transforming a long-vacant brownfield site into a sustainable residential development that delivers 22 affordable homes and lasting social value for...
Jun 26, 2026 | Housing, Infrastructure, News, Projects, Social Value, Sustainability
Yorkshire Water has successfully completed an £8.9m investment to upgrade Ingbirchworth and Hoylandswaine wastewater treatment sites in South Yorkshire to improve water quality in both the river Don and Banks Bottom Dike. These improvement works are successfully...
Jun 26, 2026 | Finance and Markets, Housing, Infrastructure, News, Projects, Social Value, Supply Chain
MERA Investment Management, the specialist real estate lender and investor backed by private capital, announces today its equity joint venture with Nicholas King Homes to support the delivery of 110 new family homes in Cranleigh, Surrey. The scheme has a GDV of £55mn,...
Jun 24, 2026 | Housing, Laws and Policies, News, Social Value, Transport
What A Burnham Premiership Could Mean By Lee Ryan, Editor, Design & Build UK Yesterday, I wrote that construction needs confidence. Today, with Andy Burnham emerging as the overwhelming favourite to replace Keir Starmer, the conversation naturally shifts to a...
Jun 24, 2026 | Housing, Laws and Policies, News, Sustainability, Technology and innovation
The sustainability conversation in high-end residential construction has grown impressively sophisticated. Architects model thermal bridging, specifiers compare insulation values down to the decimal, and developers now treat airtightness results as a genuine selling...
Jun 24, 2026 | Housing, News, Projects, Sustainability, Technology and innovation
On most new-build sites, the front door stopped being a purely aesthetic choice some years ago. Composite has become the default entrance door across British housing, picked by developers and specifiers because it holds up to weather, needs almost no upkeep and meets...