Tag: Green

Hornsea 1 turbinesHornsea 3,  for which Ørsted has now signed off the final investment decision, will have a capacity of 2.9 GW and is expected to be completed around the end of 2027. Hornsea 3 will be Ørsted’s third gigawatt-scale project in the Hornsea zone...

The old Bennett's store has sat empty for four yearsThe building, at 8-9 Iron Gate in the city centre, closed four years ago after the store went bust. Bennetts had traded since the mid-18th century and claimed to be the world’s oldest department store. After...

Alumno's planned development for St George’s Road in GlasgowBuilding works should now begin in the new year, with Alumno planning to open the doors to students in September 2026. Designed by Carson & Partners in collaboration with Stallan Brand, the six-storey building will comprise single...

The 1NQ scheme on Manchester's Tariff StreetStart of building works on the 1NQ scheme on Tariff Street in Manchester comes after developers Marco Living and Axis Real Estate agreed a £75.6m forward-funding deal with the Singapore-listed real estate company City Developments Limited (CDL). Full planning...

Normally, when competing companies agree strategies they are in breach of the Competition Act 1998. But an exception is made for environmental sustainability policies. The Green Agreements Guidance, published by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA), explains how competition law applies to environmental sustainability agreements...

CGI of Karbon's extra care schemeSouth Tyneside Council’s planning committee has approved plans for Karbon Homes to build 95 affordable homes on a site behind the Hebburn Central leisure centre.  The development will comprise 20 two-bed and 75 one-bed apartments, 17 of which will be...

Prime minister Rishi Sunak is reportedly rowing back on some of the more ambitious green targetsPlans to put the brakes on, or drop, net zero targets are across many of the front pages this morning. The prime minister is scheduled to give a speech on...

Bam Nuttall reckoned it saved more than a thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere by using ground granulated blast furnace slag as a cement substitute on the Dawlish sea wall reconstruction project in south DevonA report out today* from the Institution of...

Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks Transmission (SSEN) and National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) have secured the last of the planning consents they need to install a power cable between Peterhead in Scotland and Drax in England. Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is a 525kV, 2GW...

Simon McWhirterThe National Retrofit Hub was set up earlier this year with a mission to help mobilise resources to kit out the nation’s housing with heat pumps, solar panels, double glazing and other energy saving measures. It is backed by more than 40 organisations including...

Artist's impression of the extra care development that Esh plans to build in BridlingtonPlans for 54 affordable homes and a 68-apartment extra care development have been brought forward by Esh in partnership with Housing 21 and Yorkshire Housing. The land-led deal is worth £25m, Esh...

The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and Home Upgrade Grant are expected to result in improvements to more than 115,000 homes. Local authorities, providers of social housing and charities have been awarded £630m from phase two of the latest stage of the Home Upgrade Grant; £778m...

The planStage one of Wycombe Film Studios is already operational and the remaining seven stages and studio facilities are expected to be completed in the next 18 months. The developer is Stage Fifty, owned by James Enright, which already has film studios in Farnborough and...

National Trust conservation work requires specific skillsAccording to a new report, retrofitting the UK’s historic buildings could generate £35bn of economic output a year while creating new construction jobs and supporting the country’s net zero ambitions. However, it would require a newly-trained army of workers...

The scheme includes a link road between the southbound A1 and the eastbound A47Transport minister Huw Merriman granting of a development consent order (DCO) for National Highways’ upgrade of the A47 between Wansford and Sutton to dual carriageway. Galliford Try is the designated contractor for...