International law firm Eversheds has today announced its appointment by the London Borough of Croydon to advise on its proposed partnership with the private sector. Croydon is the first Council in the UK to emulate the successful regional development agency PPP model, by creating a £450 million urban regeneration vehicle in partnership with a private developer.
 

Developers Langtree McLean were last night granted outline planning permission for the first phase of a £250 million scheme to regenerate Liverpool’s derelict International Garden Festival site. The consent is to build 1,308 flats and 65 houses on land at Otterspool which has fallen into neglect since the 1984 festival.

A major scheme which promises to create up to 270 new jobs and clean up a highly-contaminated former colliery site on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border has been submitted to planners.

Carillion Alawi LLC, a joint venture, has been awarded the contract to build the House of Musical Arts by Oman Royal Court Affairs, worth in the region of £120 million. 
 

Manchester's famous Chetham's School of Music  has submitted a planning application for a new £27m building.

Construction services group Mitie has delivered stronger than expected growth over the last year with operating profit up 28 per cent and turnover, excluding acquisitions up over 17 per cent. Key points in the groups preliminary results to end March 2007 which were published today (May 21st) are:

The Government is planning to introduce a new wave of fixed penalties and other fines, as part of a crackdown on employers who pay workers below the minimum wage.

CPR Group has landed a £133,000 fine and costs after an employee was electrocuted at its High Holborn site.