Balfour Beatty bags £833m Teesside job

Plans for a 160-bed hotel, restaurant, two drive-thru coffee shops, a petrol station, shop, and leisure units have been approved by Redcar & Cleveland Council, located on a 10-acre plot in the south west section of the industrial zone. 

The convenience store is the first tenant secured for the street at Hanzard Drive, which will have nine retail units and sit in the middle of the 1,000-home estate in Teesside. 

Brims Construction has finished work on the Housing Innovation & Construction Skills Academy and will now hand over to Sunderland College. 

Middlesbrough Council is starting work on the spine road that will run through a proposed 1,000-home development. 

The 2,000 capacity St James’ Park fanzone and leisure destination opened last year with permission to operate until 2026, but following the popularity of the venue this has been extended. 

A deal agreed by the boards of the industrial real estate investors is the preferred option for Warehouse REIT shareholders, who had also been considering a £470m bid from Blackstone.

Financial irregularities in the council’s transport division has led to a reshuffling within departments, as the matter is passed to Northumbria Police for investigation.

Housing 2025, the latest instalment of the annual conference in Manchester, feels as if it has added significance this year given the Labour government’s concerted push to deliver more homes. Place North hosted around 200 delegates for an evening of networking at the close of day one.

The national engineering consultancy has built upon its longstanding relationship with Place North.