Ambitious plans for Edinburgh to be examined by City Council May 8, 2018 Edinburgh Council is examining ‘ambitious plans’ to revamp the public realm of the Scottish capital’s city centre. Delivering the opening keynote at our Edinburgh Development Plans Conference, the authority’s Head of Place Development Michael Thain said the city was in the middle of a building boom. He described the £3bn worth of projects under way […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Compulsory Purchase Order issued for former SSI Redcar site May 2, 2018 The purchase of a huge site in Redcar have taken a big step forward today – with the issuing of a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) noticed being issues to all the landowners today. The Tees Valley Mayor’s office and authorities are keen to complete an agreement in the next few weeks with landowners, with the […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Nottingham College’s £58m campus builder announced May 1, 2018 Wates have won the race to build the £58m flagship campus for Nottingham College as part of wider plans to completely overhaul the southern area of the City. The site, located next to the city’s Broadmarsh shopping centre and close to the train station, is set to be transformed into the six-storey City Hub. We’ll […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
NHS Five Year Forward View discussed at conference The Government’s new health public private vehicle (PPP) – Project Phoenix – is unlikely to be launched until this time next year, a leading healthcare investor has predicted. Simon Gould, Head of Development at the Assura REIT (real estate investment trust) told our Healthcare Estates Development Forum that the sector is still waiting for details. […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Consultation begins on £75m Belfast office redevelopment Consultation is set to begin on a £75m office redevelopment plan being led by Belfast City Council. The public have now been invited to give their views on the development, which will see the conversion of a former news office into new and improved office and commercial space. The development in one of many happening […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Multimillion pound deal reached for Lincoln High Street development The City of Lincoln is set to see a boost in student accommodation numbers, as a deal is struck to bring 301-bedrooms to a Lincoln High Street site. The development, which will be based alongside the £25m ongoing project which will see new restaurants, shops and a gym, is now set to be completed by […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Homes on car parks – a solution for NHS key worker housing Building over hospital surface car parks could both help to cure the NHS’s key worker crisis and remedy its shortage of move on accommodation, a Stirling prize shortlisted architect told our Healthcare Estates Development Forum. Bill Dunster, whose Bedzed housing development in Sutton was on the shortlist for the Royal Institute of British Architects prize […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Proptech within healthcare The government has been insufficiently hard-line about mandating BIM on publicly funded construction projects, the Proptech Session heard at our Healthcare Estates Development Forum. Jason Whittall, Director of One Creative Environments, said that failure to use BIM was treated less seriously than not following the BREEAM eco building standard. Whittall said the mandate had also […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
NHS providers ‘should work with private finance initiative consortia’ NHS Providers should work with private finance initiative (PFI) consortia to cut their energy use, our Healthcare Estates Development Forum heard. Peter Sellars, Chair of the Carbon & Energy Fund, told the event the NHS had ‘missed a trick’ during the 1990s heyday of PFI by not providing contractors with incentives to deliver more energy […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Health tax isn’t a cure for the NHS Our Healthcare Estates Development Forum has heard that moves to raise a tax specifically to pay for the NHS could be seen as a ‘trick’. Leading health economist and Head of Health and Welfare at the Institute of Economic Affairs Thinktank Dr Kristian Niemietz,, said that so called hypothecated taxes could get swallowed up into […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
