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Main contract awards declined against both the previous quarter and last year. More positively, detailed planning approvals grew on the preceding three months and a year ago. Education overview Totalling £1.391bn, education work starting on site fell by 11 per cent on the preceding three months, to stand 10 per…

Project starts increased on both the preceding quarter and a year ago. However, main contract awards and detailed planning approvals decreased compared with last year. Health overview Overall, health starts grew by 14 per cent on the previous quarter and 129 per cent on a year ago, totalling £1.645bn. At…

Project starts and main contract awards decreased on the preceding three months and a year ago. More positively, detailed planning approvals grew against both the previous quarter and last year. Hotel and leisure overview Totalling £613m, hotel and leisure projects starting on site during the three months to June fell…

Project starts and main contract awards slipped back against the previous quarter. More positively, detailed planning approvals grew on the previous quarter and a year ago. Retail overview Totalling £480m, retail work starting on site during the three months to June declined by 35 per cent against the preceding three…

Project starts and detailed planning approvals decreased compared with the preceding quarter and a year ago. More positively, an increase in main contract awards compared with last year provided a boost to the development pipeline. Offices overview Office work starting on site totalled £1.302bn during the three months to June,…

Project starts, main contract awards and detailed planning approvals all fell against the previous quarter and last year. Housing overview Totalling £10.13bn, residential work commencing on site during the three months to June fell 4 per cent against the preceding three months to stand 28 per cent down on a…

Project starts and main contract awards fell against the previous quarter and a year ago. More positively, growth in detailed planning approvals on last year’s figures provided a boost to the development pipeline. Community and amenity overview Community and amenity work starting on site totalled £284m during the three months…

Jonathan Parker is development director at framework provider Pagabo  The newly elected government’s long-needed planning reforms, with their focus on unlocking development and setting housing targets, have been met with widespread approval. But planning reform is just the start, and development needs to look beyond new homes to wider town…

Paul Maile is a partner at Eversheds Sutherland The UK is due an infrastructure revolution. It’s time for a renaissance of public-works building to bring our aged and end-of-life energy, utilities and transport networks into the present century. And to make them fit for the future. The political will is…

Matt Voyce is executive director of construction at Quintain The construction industry needs more than a quarter of a million extra workers by 2026. Between 1991 and 2011 the Office for National Statistics tracked a 13 per cent increase in the number of UK construction workers aged 45 and over.…