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Barratt North Scotland is planning to invest about £100m in new housing sites over the next year, including sites in Kemnay, Stonehaven, Rothienorman and Aberdeen. 28-Dec-2007 David McLean is to shed up to 50 of the 400 jobs at its Deeside-based construction business. 24-Dec-2007 Travis Perkins is looking to sell up to 90 builders' merchants and DIY stores into a joint venture property fund, in order to finance the development of new stores. 24-Dec-2007 Mark Group, the domestic insulation firm, is to double the staff at its Leicester head office to 700, while the national workforce will rise from 800 to about 1,500 over the next 18 months. 19-Dec-2007 Turner & Townsend is planning to raise up to £80m in a flotation on the London Stock Exchange, with some of the proceeds being used to fund the expansion of its project management business. 13-Dec-2007 Rykneld Homes is to shed up to 50 of the 327 jobs at its housing management firm in Derbyshire. 12-Dec-2007 Wise Property Care is planning to expand its chain of seven Scottish property maintenance branches with new sites in the Borders and Inverness in 2008. 10-Dec-2007 Hanson Building Products is to close its brickworks at Stewartby in Bedfordshire next February, with the loss of 217 jobs. 30-Nov-2007 Wolseley is to shed a further 1,300 jobs in its heating and plumbing business, in response to difficult trading conditions in the US. 30-Nov-2007 Helical Bar and UK Coal are planning to develop a £140m office campus for government civil servants at the Waverley and Orgreave site near Sheffield. 29-Nov-2007 Clancy Group is considering plans to shed up to 70 jobs at its utilities construction business in the Grimsby area, in order to change the way it handles a contract with Anglian Water. 28-Nov-2007 Croudace, the Surrey-based housebuilder, has put itself up for sale with an estimated price tag of £130m. 26-Nov-2007 Advantage West Midlands has awarded funding of £4.3m for the development of a £250m university quarter in Stoke-on-Trent, providing space for Staffordshire University, Stoke Further Education College and Sixth Form College. 21-Nov-2007 Southampton City Council is to consider plans from Kier Property for a £200m mixed-use development at the 25-acre Ordnance Survey site in Romsey Road, including housing, shops and offices. 20-Nov-2007 EH Smith is to set up a new 20,000 sq ft building materials branch in Longbridge next spring, with the creation of 20 jobs. 19-Nov-2007 Land Securities is to split its commercial property business into three separate companies at a cost of £60m, including retail, Trillium outsourcing and London offices. 15-Nov-2007 Hickman Industries is to open a 42,000 sq ft timber products facility in Wolverhampton in January, as part of a £5m expansion programme that will create dozens of jobs. 12-Nov-2007 Bison Concrete Products is to shed 31 of the 91 jobs at its building products business in Swadlincote. 12-Nov-2007 DTZ is planning to relocate its London-based property services business to a 100,000 sq ft office at 125 Old Broad Street next year. 12-Nov-2007 UK Home Lets is to shed more than 100 jobs at its residential property business in Glasgow. 09-Nov-2007 Baggeridge Brick is to close its office in Sedgley in January with the loss of about 40 jobs, in order to transfer the sales, marketing and finance work to parent company Wienerberger in Cheadle. 08-Nov-2007 East Durham Homes, the County Durham-based housing group, is to shed 40 jobs following a review of its repairs and maintenance service. 02-Nov-2007 Bovis Lend Lease is to set up a 100,000 sq ft headquarters at Chiswick Park in London, while Starbucks will take 40,000 sq ft at the same site. 02-Nov-2007 Woodford Group is looking to sell Homes by Woodford, its residential development division with offices in Yarm and Leeds, in order to focus on commercial projects. 25-Oct-2007 Blackburn College has unveiled plans to build a £13m five-storey higher education centre on a one-acre site in Barbara Castle Way by summer 2009. 23-Oct-2007 WBB Minerals is to close Moneystone Quarry in Staffordshire in 2009, with the loss of up to 70 jobs. 22-Oct-2007 Prestigious Retirement Villages of Warrington is planning to raise almost £6m in a flotation on the Plus Market to fund its expansion programme, and is currently in negotiations on ten potential sites. 16-Oct-2007 Riverside College has unveiled plans to build a new £45m campus in Widnes by 2011, and will seek funding from the Learning & Skills Council. 11-Oct-2007 Knight Frank, the commercial property agent, is to relocate its Liverpool office from the Tower Building to a 4,500 sq ft unit at Exchange Flags in December. 11-Oct-2007 Hilti, the Manchester-based supplier of construction equipment, is planning to expand its nationwide chain of 26 outlets with a rise in the sales force from 180 to 280. 10-Oct-2007 Lloyds Timber Frames has gone into liquidation through Smith & Williamson, with the possible loss of up to 30 jobs at its timber frames business in Oswestry. 09-Oct-2007 Unison, the public services trade union, is planning to build a new headquarters at King's Cross in London, having shortlisted Wates, HBG and Galliford Try for the £41m construction contract. 09-Oct-2007 Birmingham City Council has approved plans from Dandara to build a 50-storey V-Building at the £500m Arena Central development, including 706 luxury apartments, bars and shops. 05-Oct-2007 Circle Anglia, the housing association, is to relocate its central services team from London to St Andrew's Business Park in Norwich, with the creation of 45 jobs by January 2008. 05-Oct-2007 Tobermore is to invest £10m in the expansion of its concrete products factory in County Londonderry, with the creation of 100 jobs over the next two years. 04-Oct-2007 Scottish Enterprise is considering plans to relocate 550 staff from its Atlantic Quay site in Glasgow to local offices, as part of a reorganisation aimed at improving frontline services. 02-Oct-2007 The University of Cumbria has secured a £10m donation from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to build a new campus and faculty of technology, engineering and construction in Workington. 01-Oct-2007 Martin Reynolds Construction, the modular buildings firm with 26 staff, is seeking permission from West Norfolk Council to set up a new site at a former seed research centre in Downham Market. 27-Sep-2007 EC Harris, the property consultancy, is to relocate its Birmingham office to a 14,000 sq ft unit at Targetspace's redeveloped Baskerville House in the city centre. 25-Sep-2007 Swindon Council is planning to shed more than 200 jobs from its 4,500-strong workforce. 21-Sep-2007 Stoke-on-Trent College has unveiled plans to invest £75m in improvements to campuses in Burslem and Cauldon, including a number of new teaching and leisure buildings. 20-Sep-2007 Dundee City Council is to relocate about 1,000 staff to a new £30m headquarters to be built in North Lindsay Street by 2010. 19-Sep-2007 Checkatrade is planning to expand its Selsey headquarters with a new office building, and the 40-strong workforce could eventually reach 150. 19-Sep-2007 Renew Tees Valley and Redcar & Cleveland Council are planning to build an Eco-Park on a 53-hectare former steelworks site in South Bank, providing space for about 20 companies and 500 jobs. 14-Sep-2007 Forth Ports has submitted outline plans for the regeneration of a 356-acre site at Leith Docks in Edinburgh, including new offices, shops and 16,000 homes. 12-Sep-2007 Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust has unveiled a £190m 27-acre development plan for Chatham dockyard, including houses, shops and services, in partnership with City Lofts Group and the South East England Development Agency. 10-Sep-2007 Candy & Candy has won planning permission from Westminster City Council for the £1bn transformation of the former Middlesex Hospital into luxury homes, offices and shops. 10-Sep-2007 English Partnerships is planning to build the country's first carbon-neutral village with 150 energy-efficient houses at the Hanham Hall site near Bristol. 10-Sep-2007 Gardiner & Theobald, the construction and property consultancy, is to relocate its London headquarters to Tottenham Court Road in early 2009, and the site will provide space for up to 700 staff. 04-Sep-2007 Costain, the construction company, is to relocate its Maidenhead-based headquarters to a 36,000 sq ft unit at Vanwall Business Park. 03-Sep-2007 GRS Roadstone is to relocate the headquarters of its aggregates business and 40 staff from Hinckley to the Eliot Business Park in Nuneaton in December, with the creation of ten new jobs. 31-Aug-2007 JCB is seeking permission to redevelop its 21-acre Uttoxeter factory into offices, shops and housing, in order to relocate excavator production to a new £26m factory near the A50 by summer 2008. 30-Aug-2007 The Department for Environment is considering plans to build a new £20bn Thames Barrier to protect London from flooding. 27-Aug-2007 Home Group, the affordable housing provider, is to seek permission to build a new £4m regional office in Cockermouth by 2009, with the relocation of about 100 staff from other sites in Cumbria. 27-Aug-2007 Hemcore is to open a new £3.6m hemp processing plant at Halesworth in Suffolk early next year, which will employ up to 35 staff. 27-Aug-2007 Rok is expanding the 4,200-strong workforce in its contracting and property maintenance business with about 120 new jobs a month, and expects to reach 10,000 by 2011. 22-Aug-2007 Keller is looking to sell or close its Makers concrete repair and building refurbishment operations over the next six months, at a cost of up to £10m. 21-Aug-2007 Speymill is forming a joint venture with Goodman Group of the US to develop about ten retirement villages in the UK. 20-Aug-2007 SLR is to create 12 new jobs at its recently-acquired Insite Environments environmental consultancy business in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 16-Aug-2007 Pectel Group, the hazardous waste removal firm, is to set up an operation at Devonshire Meadows in Plymouth in September, and the 15-strong workforce is expected to grow to 40. 10-Aug-2007 CDE Ireland is building a new 25,000 sq ft quarrying equipment factory at Cookstown in County Tyrone, which will lead to the expansion of the 50-strong workforce. 08-Aug-2007 Meadowstone is to close its cast stone factory at Milton in North Staffordshire in October, with the loss of 62 jobs. 06-Aug-2007 West Kent College has won planning permission to build a new £63m campus in Tonbridge. 03-Aug-2007 Alfred McAlpine is planning to split its construction and support services business into two by demerging its business services division, and is also looking to sell its PFI portfolio and slate division. 03-Aug-2007 Anglo American is said to be planning to sell its Tarmac building materials business next year for at least £3bn. 03-Aug-2007 George Wimpey is to close its office in Hertford next month with the loss of 24 of the 38 jobs, following its recent merger with Taylor Woodrow. 16-Jul-2007 Holloway White Allom, the London-based construction company, has been put up for sale for more than £50m. 16-Jul-2007 Fenland District Council is to transfer up to 100 housing jobs and 4,000 homes to Circle Anglia later this year, and the sites will be managed by the newly-formed Roddons Housing Association. 12-Jul-2007 Durham University has unveiled proposals to expand its Stockton campus to the North Shore of the River Tees, which could include a new college or research centre. 12-Jul-2007 The University of Warwick has announced plans for a £400m expansion programme that will increase the size of its campus by 40% and the number of staff and students by 4,500. 06-Jul-2007 Scottish Enterprise Grampian is to start work on the development of a £4.7m Energy Development Centre at the Aberdeen Science & Energy Park this autumn, including 27 individual business units. 06-Jul-2007 Loughborough University has announced proposals for the development of a 23-acre science and enterprise park on a 23-acre site near Holywell Park, which could lead to the creation of up to 2,500 jobs. 05-Jul-2007 Newham Council is to relocate 2,000 back-office staff from 24 existing buildings to a 160,000 sq ft office at the Royal Docks in London next April. 05-Jul-2007 Esh Group is looking to expand its construction business and create up to 400 jobs across the North East and Yorkshire over the next three years. 04-Jul-2007 F Jones Cleveland is to expand the 35-strong workforce at its Middlesbrough-based marble and granite business with 15 new jobs over the next 12 months. 02-Jul-2007 RB Farquhar, the Aberdeenshire-based accommodation hire supplier, is planning to build a new £2m headquarters for 60 staff in Huntly. 28-Jun-2007 The University of Central England is planning to build a new 370,000 sq ft campus at the £6bn Eastside regeneration zone in Birmingham, in order to relocate from 16 existing sites. 28-Jun-2007 Her Majesty's Court Service has announced plans for a £400m investment to build six new court complexes in Sunderland, Aylesbury, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bolton and Salford by 2012. 27-Jun-2007 Acheson & Glover is to invest £7m in the expansion of its Northern Ireland-based building materials business, in order to double turnover to £100m by 2012. 27-Jun-2007 Southwark Council is to relocate about 2,100 staff to a 200,000 sq ft office at 160 Tooley Street by London Bridge in 2009. 25-Jun-2007 Oaklands College is to submit plans to St Albans District Council to invest £100m in the development of a new college, performing arts studio and sports centre. 21-Jun-2007 GSH Group has raised £3m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its facilities and energy management operations. 18-Jun-2007 Bristol City Council is to consider plans from the University of the West of England for the £8m revamp of its Fishponds campus, including a new teaching block and student accommodation. 18-Jun-2007 North Lanarkshire Council is considering plans to shed up to 200 jobs at its Maintenance Property Care partnership with Morrison Facilities Services, in order to improve the efficiency of its building repair service. 18-Jun-2007 MW Crowe, the Lincolnshire-based building firm with 30 staff, is expected to go into voluntary administration through P&A Partnership. 14-Jun-2007 Bovis Lend Lease is considering plans to relocate its Harrow head office, and consultation with staff will last until the end of summer. 12-Jun-2007 Chichester College has announced plans for the £120m transformation of its campuses at Westgate Fields and Brinsbury by 2011, and is seeking funding from the Learning & Skills Council. 08-Jun-2007 Norcros, the building materials company, is planning to raise up to £130m in a flotation on the London Stock Exchange in July, with the proceeds mainly being used to pay off debt. 04-Jun-2007 Falcon Steel is to build a steel roofing and cladding factory in Newport, South Wales, with the creation of 180 new jobs over the next three years. 31-May-2007 Herbert Forrest, the Preston-based social housing and regeneration company, is expected to be acquired by private equity firm LDC for about £35m. 30-May-2007 Bolton Council has selected Ask Developments and Bluemantle for the £196m redevelopment of the 13-acre Church Wharf site by 2014, including 340,000 sq ft of new office space, a hotel and 700 apartments. 30-May-2007 BSS Group is planning to expand its chain of 319 builders' merchants with up to 30 new outlets this year. 30-May-2007 Dunedin, the industrial property company with 40 staff in London and Edinburgh, has been put up for sale with a price tag of about £700m. 30-May-2007 Cyril Sweett, the London-based quantity surveyor with 650 staff, is considering plans for a flotation on Aim this autumn. 29-May-2007 Barratt Developments is to withdraw from its Advance Housing steel frame manufacturing business, in order to use off-site suppliers, and discussions are being held with potential purchasers for its site in Daventry. 29-May-2007 Energy-Assessors is to cancel the training contracts of 100 assessors following the government announcement to delay the introduction of home information packs, and other companies are expected to make similar cuts. 28-May-2007 Keepmoat, the developer of social housing, is considering plans for a £800m buy-out, having appointed Deloitte to conduct a strategic review of the business. 28-May-2007 Gloucestershire County Council is planning to build three new fire stations around Gloucester and Cheltenham by 2009, and is seeking private funding. 24-May-2007 Commercial Group Properties has agreed a 10-year lease on a 1m sq ft development at the Manston International Business Park in Thanet, in order to attract a number of Chinese companies and up to 1,000 jobs to the site. 23-May-2007 Betakreet Fencing, the St Helens-based supplier of timber and concrete products, has ceased trading with the loss of 15 jobs, and several potential buyers are said to be interested. 21-May-2007 GVA Grimley is to relocate its City of London office to an 11,500 sq ft site at 80 Cheapside, and 60 staff will transfer from Stratton Street. 16-May-2007 Land Registry is to close its public enquiries office in York in 2010, with the loss of up to 127 jobs. 14-May-2007 Rochdale Council is expected to transfer hundreds of staff to a new call centre operated by private companies Mouchel Parkman and Agilisys in Buckley Lane by summer 2008. 14-May-2007 Oakdene Homes is to raise £15m in a share placing to fund the acquisition of new sites for its Reigate-based housebuilding business. 10-May-2007 Taylor Woodrow is said to be planning to close its head office in Solihull with the loss of up to 200 jobs, due to the planned £5bn merger with George Wimpey. 09-May-2007 Ennstone is to raise £51m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its building materials business in Scotland and the US. 03-May-2007 Barratt Developments is to shed 400 jobs in its housebuilding business following the acquisition of Wilson Bowden, affecting sites in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Ibstock and nine divisional offices. 02-May-2007 Wolseley is to set up a new £17m regional distribution facility at the former Royal Ordnance site in Chorley, and Pochin Contractors will complete work on the 310,000 sq ft building by November. 02-May-2007 City of Edinburgh Council is seeking a 200,000 sq ft office to relocate a further 1,500 staff, having just transferred 1,800 staff to its new headquarters at Waverley Court. 01-May-2007 Mouchel Parkman, the support services firm, is setting up a new office at Morton Palms in Darlington, with the relocation of ten jobs from Northallerton and the creation of 20 new jobs. 30-Apr-2007 Foxtons is seeking a suitable 200,000 sq ft site for a new headquarters for its London-based estate agency business, and expects the 260 staff to grow to 680 over the next two years. 19-Apr-2007 Davis Langdon is in negotiations to relocate its Birmingham-based quantity surveying business to a 23,000 sq ft office at the Colmore Plaza development. 19-Apr-2007 Cemex is to create ten jobs at a new £5m concrete block factory due to open in West Calder, West Lothian, in September. 17-Apr-2007 The Treasury is considering plans to relocate a further four government offices out of London over the next five years, due to lease breaks on buildings occupied by the Cabinet Office, Department of Communities, Home Office and Office of Government Commerce. 16-Apr-2007 The East Midlands Development Agency has agreed a deal with developer Ingleby to build a £60m science park in Abbey Park Lane, Leicester, which will create more than 1,000 jobs. 13-Apr-2007 Motherwell College has secured planning permission from North Lanarkshire Council to build a new £70m campus at the Ravenscraig steelworks site by 2009. 13-Apr-2007 Loughborough College is planning to invest £30m in the redevelopment of its campus over the next six years. 11-Apr-2007 Wolseley UK is to restructure its Plumb Center, Build Center and Brandon Hire depots with the loss of up to 150 jobs in Leamington Spa and the closure of 47 of the 1,900 branches. 09-Apr-2007 Coast & County Housing is to shed 50 of the 250 jobs in the building services department of its Teesside-based housing association. 04-Apr-2007 Capita is to shed 19 jobs at its property services division at Kingmoor Park in Carlisle, including architects and building surveyors. 02-Apr-2007 North Tyneside Council is to set up a new 100,000 sq ft office at the Cobalt 16 business park this October. 02-Apr-2007 CMB Properties has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 58 jobs at its Cumbria-based building business. 30-Mar-2007 Spicerhaart of Colchester is planning to create 50 new call centre jobs, in order to become a leading provider of the new home information packs. 30-Mar-2007 Macquarie Goodman and Stoford Developments are planning to build a new 100-acre office and warehousing park at the former Jaguar plant at Browns Lane in Coventry. 29-Mar-2007 Opus Land is seeking permission to build a new four-storey office complex in Oldbury to house the Chamber of Commerce in the Black Country, Business Link and other organisations. 27-Mar-2007 Trenport Investments is to acquire the former Peugeot plant in Coventry with the aim of redeveloping the 140-acre site and creating hundreds of jobs. 22-Mar-2007 Helios Properties has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle to conduct a strategic review of its logistics property development business, which could lead to a sale. 19-Mar-2007 Alfred McAlpine is to shed a further 175 jobs at slate quarries in Gwynedd, and a site in Blaenau Ffestiniog will close. 16-Mar-2007 Notting Hill Housing Trust is considering plans to relocate up to 430 staff to a 65,000 sq ft office at the Metro Building in London's Hammersmith, while its Grove House headquarters is being refurbished. 12-Mar-2007 Land Securities Trillium has acquired 285 properties from Royal Mail for £70m, and up to 108 of the sites will be refurbished for new occupiers. 09-Mar-2007 The Ministry of Defence is planning to build a new multi-million pound Army headquarters for the 250 staff at its Craigiehall site near South Queensferry. 08-Mar-2007 Readymix is to invest £2.7m at three of its Cemex concrete plants in Northern Ireland this year. 08-Mar-2007 Hewden, the tool hire company, has been put up for sale by Finning with an estimated valuation of £150m. 07-Mar-2007 Leicester City Council is looking to set up a new headquarters of up to 200,000 sq ft by 2010, and is considering a number of potential sites in the city centre. 07-Mar-2007 William Ewart Properties has unveiled plans for five major building projects totalling 1m sq ft in Belfast over the next three years, including retail, office and residential schemes in Lanyon Place, Stewart Street, Donegall Pass and Fitzwilliam Terrace. 05-Mar-2007 Ben Bailey, the Yorkshire-based housebuilder with a market capitalisation of £82m, has appointed NM Rothschild to conduct a strategic review, which could lead to the business being sold. 22-Feb-2007 Estate Graphics is to create 30 jobs for home energy assessors in Lancaster, in preparation for the introduction of the Home Information Pack for property buyers. 21-Feb-2007 Reading Borough Council is to consider plans from Sackville Developments for the £500m Station Hill development, including offices, residential towers, shops and an arts centre. 21-Feb-2007 Helical Bar is planning to build 12 office campuses around the country to house staff from government departments being moved out of London, and the first will be on a 75-acre site at Newport in South Wales. 19-Feb-2007 The Home Office is planning to build two new prisons at Maghull on Merseyside and Belmarsh in London, as part of a strategy to provide an extra 8,000 cells over the next five years. 19-Feb-2007 GHI Contracts is to relocate its commercial fit-out business and 120 staff to a new 16,500 sq ft headquarters in Rosehall Road, Bellshill, by autumn 2007. 14-Feb-2007 East Surrey College has submitted plans to build a new £30m campus on one site in Redhill. 14-Feb-2007 Birmingham City Council is seeking a private sector partner to help consolidate about 6,800 staff from 55 office buildings into about ten by 2015, which will require a new office development of up to 360,000 sq ft. 14-Feb-2007 Greater Manchester Police Authority is seeking planning permission to set up a 100,000 sq ft office for its crime operations division at Ashton Moss, and up to 600 staff will relocate from sites throughout Greater Manchester. 07-Feb-2007 Highlands & Islands Enterprise has announced a £7.5m government funding package for the expansion of ten business parks in the area. 06-Feb-2007 One Call Hire is planning to expand its chain of plant hire depots from five to ten over the next five years. 29-Jan-2007 Rok is looking to expand its directly employed workforce from 2,200 to 10,000 over the next five years, in order to reduce the number of subcontractors in its contracting and property maintenance business. 29-Jan-2007 West Notts College in Mansfield has unveiled plans to build a new £70m campus next to its existing site by 2010. 25-Jan-2007 Hull City Council is planning to shed 333 jobs, in order to reduce a £25m budget shortfall over the coming year. 22-Jan-2007 Foster & Partners, the architectural firm with 850 staff, has appointed Catalyst Investment to conduct a strategic review of the business, which could lead to a sale or flotation. 22-Jan-2007 The Ministry of Defence has announced plans to build a new defence training academy at St Athan in South Wales, with the creation of 4,000 jobs, having awarded a £16bn contract to the Metrix consortium. 18-Jan-2007 Colchester Institute is planning a £62m college redevelopment project, having secured financial backing from the Learning & Skills Council. 18-Jan-2007 Southampton City College has submitted plans for a £35m redevelopment project, which would regenerate the St Mary's area of Southampton. 18-Jan-2007 The Scottish Executive is planning to develop a £40m crime supercampus at Gartcosh in Lanarkshire by 2010, bringing together the Scottish Crime & Drugs Enforcement Agency, Customs and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. 16-Jan-2007 Cleveland Police is to set up more than 100,000 sq ft of office space at Wynyard Park on Teesside, with the relocation of staff from a number of sites in Middlesbrough. 08-Jan-2007 The Scottish Executive has approved plans from the Scottish Prison Service to build a new £100m prison at the Low Moss site in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. 04-Jan-2007 CITB-Construction Skills is planning to shed up to 30 of its 236 administration staff, in order to consolidate work at three regional offices in Leeds, Eastleigh and Loughborough. 02-Jan-2007 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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