Procurement – Covid-19

Lawyers divided on impact of planning reforms

Lawyers are divided on whether reforms to the government’s National Planning Policy Framework are delivering on promises to unleash a wave of housebuilding, says a research report.

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Minister urges planning flexibility

Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook MP has written to the Planning Inspectorate outlining his expectation that local plans submitted in the current plan-making system should be treated with an appropriate degree of flexibility.

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Contractor fined after accident kills worker

Contractor Lanes Group Limited was fined £800,000, after pleading guilty to health and safety breaches that led to the death of a worker on a construction site in Leeds.

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Report attacks construction analyses that produce short term fixes that do not work

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has published new research on the construction industry’s capacity to meet key targets, including the delivery of 1.5 million new homes by 2029.

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Small nuclear reactor consultation launched

A consultation has been launched by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on an application for a regulatory justification decision on the ‘Rolls-Royce SMR’ (small modular reactor).

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Construction Law latest print issue published

The latest issue of Construction Law’s print edition is arriving on subscriber’s desks, and articles can be accessed by subscribers now on the Construction Law website. Editor Nick Barrett suggests that the Treasury could start with a clearer definition of why one multi-million pound project is to be regarded as ‘mega’, yet another isn’t, when it responds to Public Accounts Committee criticism of how it proposes to oversee mega project delivery. 

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Fewer firms declining tender invitations, says survey

Gleeds’ UK Market Report for Q3 2025 says the construction industry in the UK presents a fragile but cautiously stabilising picture.

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Record number of major infrastructure projects approved

The government says it has given the go ahead to the largest number of major infrastructure projects in the first year of a Parliament in history, with 21 major infrastructure planning decisions made in the government’s first year in power.

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Company and director found guilty of health and safety breaches after six feet fall kills worker

A shop sign making and fitting company and its director have been fined after an employee fell from an unguarded scaffolding tower and died from his injuries.

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Government accepts PAC recommendations on private finance for infrastructure

Government’s response to the Public Accounts Committee report on private finance for infrastructure, published in July, accepts the committee’s criticism that the then current infrastructure pipeline was ‘not credible and does not support long-term planning for investors’.

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