Prime Minister Theresa May is set to back plans for MPs to move out of the Houses of Parliament for at least six years as part of a £4bn restoration project. Major work to save the crumbling grade I listed Palace of… Continue Reading →

Wates Living Space Maintenance has won a £24m contract to deliver a programme of responsive repairs and voids maintenance on behalf of Network Homes in London. The five-year contract with an optional five-year extension will see Wates provide an innovative 24/7,… Continue Reading →

Watkin Jones has received planning consent to redevelop Northumbria Police’s old headquarters in Newcastle’s city centre. The former police station in Market Street will become a £17m student accommodation scheme containing 225 beds. The nine-storey development is anticipated to be… Continue Reading →

The directors of one of the UK’s oldest building contractors have given up it the fight to save the firm and have appointed administrators Begbies Traynor. York-based conservation specialist William Anelay ran into problems after a period of expansion with projects outside its… Continue Reading →