Rogue building owners to be targeted harder by government and councils

Rogue building owners failing to fix medium and high rise properties with safety defects are being freshly targeted in a joint government and local authority initiative.

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Serious Fraud Office makes four arrests in £140m property fraud investigation

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has raided three residences and made four arrests in Merseyside and Greater Manchester as it announced it is investigating Signature Group, a collapsed business that attracted over a thousand UK and international investors in the redevelopment of iconic landmarks.

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Controversial project to start next year after High Court decision

National Highways expects to start construction of the Stonehenge Tunnel next year following failure of the latest legal challenge to the controversial project.

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Scottish health projects put on hold for two years

Budget pressures have been blamed for plans to build new hospitals, surgeries and a network of treatment centres in Scotland being put on hold for up to two years.

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Insurers call for pilot investment projects to support green investments

UK insurers want to start pilot investment projects with local and national government to develop funding models that might include new public-private partnerships to help deliver a potential £100 billion of investment in green infrastructure projects.

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Company fined £450,000 for corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences

A company has been fined £450,000 with £167,601 costs for corporate manslaughter and a director has received a suspended prison sentence for health and safety offences after a labourer was crushed to death at a construction site.

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Government nuclear policy slammed for lack of clarity

A cross-party parliamentary committee of MPs has slammed government nuclear policy over the proposed building of small modular reactors (SMRs).

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Safety regulator looking for a high profile prosecution

Many contractors are ignoring safety regulations despite repeated warnings that measures introduced by the Building Safety Act are already in place and affect every project, not just high rise residential projects (HRBs), according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).

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Roads regulator starts investigation into National Highways performance

The Office of Rail and Road is to investigate whether National Highways is taking every action that could 'reasonably be expected' of it to meet its targets under the current Road Investment Strategy which has a year to run.

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Court rejects attempt to force engineer to produce a collateral warranty

The Scottish Court of Session has ruled that a structural engineer could not be compelled to execute and deliver a collateral warranty in favour of the landowner more than five years after the conclusion of a contract between the engineer and the project’s contractor which created the obligation to produce a warranty that was never complied with.

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