Construction has started on Select Property Group’s Vita Student Village in York which will see the 6.3 acre site which was formerly St Joseph’s Convent on Lawrence Street, transformed into student accommodation. Owners Select Property Group will renovate the convent… Continue Reading →

Forrest, has been appointed to deliver a £7m upgrade across five tower blocks in Knowsley for Villages Housing Association.  As part of the investment, the housing association, which is part of the ForViva Group, is to install a new energy… Continue Reading →

Mace has submitted plans to redevelop the West Way shopping centre in Botley on the outskirts of Oxford. The firm took over from developer Doric after its £100m plans were rejected by the Vale of White Horse District Council in… Continue Reading →

Birmingham’s council is claiming that it will save £13m over the next four years after signing revamped housing repair deals for the city. It has dropped the old system of having two specialist contractors for most tenants, separately covering gas… Continue Reading →

Housing manager Lewisham Homes has been fined £40,000 for breaking fire safety laws following a fatal blaze in a Deptford tower block in which two women died. Social Housing company Lewisham Homes were sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court after pleading guilty at… Continue Reading →

An ambitious project will see a total of £500,000 invested in making improvements to all 150 rooms over the next two months.  Work started this month to bring the Limehouse hotel in line with the recently agreed ‘Next Generation’ spec,… Continue Reading →

BRISBANE is in the midst of a multi-million dollar warehouse refurbishment boom, as older logistics centres undergo extreme makeovers to compete against newly built industrial buildings.  Colliers International director of Industrial Anthony White described the refurbishment boom as “unprecedented”.  “These… Continue Reading →

Turner & Townsend, the global programme management consultancy, has been appointed by Oxford Brookes University in a multi-disciplinary role, as project and cost manager on the University’s estates project framework to deliver their £130m major refurbishment programme. The University’s framework… Continue Reading →