All Energy, infrastructure and refurbishment articles – Page 11
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NewsSunak scraps HS2 Birmingham to Manchester leg
Savings to be spent on ‘hundreds’ of smaller projects, while Euston link to go ahead under new management
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NewsPlans lodged to restore grade II*-listed Great Yarmouth glasshouse
Burrell Foley Fischer to turn seaside town’s Winter Gardens into year-round event and entertainment space
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NewsConservative Party conference: axe looms over HS2, ministers side-step awkward questions and business leaders despair
As row over country’s biggest infrastructure project escalates, Daniel Gayne reports on a downbeat mood in Manchester
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OpinionHS2: should it stay or should it go?
As well as squandering huge investment made to date, proposed government cuts to the project also miss the national economic benefits of connecting our major cities, writes Glenn Howells
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NewsBirmingham approves demolition of brutalist Ringway Centre
Corstorphine & Wright-designed plans to replace 1960s landmark with three towers up to 56 storeys
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NewsHS2 cuts could turn line into ‘shuttle service’ between Acton and Birmingham, says infrastructure chief
John Armitt’s comments come as unions demand ministers call emergency summit to get project “back on track”
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NewsSet up urban greening task force, Create Streets urges government
Research group wants communities to have a ‘right to plant’ in public spaces to make street greener
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NewsSunak considering backing Manchester underground station to bring Burnham on side in HS2 talks
Prime minister wants to win over Manchester mayor amid backlash against expected HS2 cuts
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NewsGatwick refreshing £60m design framework as airport architect sees numbers jump
Airport planning to bring to bring second runway into routine use while Pascall & Watson reports workloads doubled last year
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NewsJohnson attacks plans to 'mutilate' HS2 as more cutbacks loom
Mixed messages damaging country’s reputation, National Infrastructure Commission boss adds
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NewsFuture generations to pay ‘heavy price’ for Sunak’s climate U-turn, RIBA warns
Fines for landlords who don’t upgrade their properties axed while a fifth of households to be exempt from boiler ban
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NewsIndustry dismay over Sunak’s expected net zero U-turn
Government set to roll back pledge to ban new gas boilers by 2030 and set tougher energy efficiency targets for landlords
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NewsCollapse that sparked school closures caused by bearing failure, says DfE official
Number of schools to identify problem concrete rises to 174
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NewsDfE’s ‘primarily visual’ RAAC surveys may have missed hidden flaws
Department officials resist MP’s attempts to get numbers of unsurveyed schools in testy committee hearing
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NewsLiverpool looking for masterplanners to oversee city’s historic waterfront
Council to appoint team of placemaking specialists to guide development over the next 15 years
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NewsWilkinson Eyre’s plans for £750m Marlow Film Studios progress amid local backlash
Local MP among hundreds of objectors to plan to build one of the UK’s largest film studio complexes
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NewsSunak finally eases planning rules for onshore wind
Communities which support wind farms could be given up to 50% off their energy bills
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NewsRAAC schools had been due for renewal under scrapped Labour plan
Shelved Building Schools for the Future programme would have seen renewal work at 13 schools hit by failing concrete crisis
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NewsRIBA calls on government to set up industry task force to coordinate RAAC response
Advice come as government dashes hopes of new funding to fix or replace closed schools