The Industry Safety Steering Group (ISSG) has hit out at developers for continuing to build with designs appropriate to older standards. The group says that some developers show an approach based on minimal compliance of safety regulations. Read More >>> lnkd.in/erpsv_q7

Spending watchdog warns Carillion lessons not being evaluated adequately Read More >>> lnkd.in/daT5_DAj #carillion #watchdog #constructionlaw #procurement

📰In a recent article for Construction Law, we analyse a Court of Appeal judgment that sets out how the courts will approach fire safety claims under the Defective Premises Act. Read the full article here (subscription required): constructionlaw.uk.com/the-reincarnat… #ConstructionLaw

Halton Borough Council is to make contractors include mental health statements in bids for construction work. Read More >>> lnkd.in/gsDisTfs #HaltonBoroughCouncil #Contractors #MentalHealth #ConstructionLaw #Procurement

Engineering and services company NG Bailey Limited has been fined £135,000 following the death of a worker at a hospital construction site in Aberdeen. Read More >>> lnkd.in/eU8c-ZHa #NGBaileyLtd

A company director has been jailed for eight months after failing to protect workers from asbestos exposure at a development project in Winchester. Read More >>> lnkd.in/ecnC3JE6 #Asbestos #SafetyBreaches #ConstructionLaw #TheCavendishWinchester

The Government’s new suite of planning regulations that ministers will use to determine ‘nationally significant’ road and rail projects came in for criticism during a debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Read More >>> lnkd.in/eQDzR4ut #roadprojects #railprojects

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has launched legal action to force the landlord of a Canary Wharf apartment complex to pay £20.5 million towards building safety works Read More >>> lnkd.in/eyPnuKUw

Erith Plant Services Limited has been fined £170,000 for health and safety breaches that led to the death of an employee who was crushed by an excavator lifting attachment. Read More >>> lnkd.in/e75Su7hD #healthandsafety #ErithPlantServices

Technical guidance removes developer uncertainty Read More >>> lnkd.in/eSMBXfrX #TechnicalGuidance #DeveloperUncertainty #ConstructionLaw

Network Rail is promising greater collaboration with contractors appointed to its £4 billion Train Control Systems Framework. Read More >>> lnkd.in/eBmwR_ZQ #NetworkRail #TrainControlSystemFramework

Grenfell Inquiry report further delayed Read More >>> lnkd.in/eQ-S_pss #grenfell #grenfellinquiry #grenfellinquiryreport

Failure to properly address embodied carbon emissions in the government’s Future Homes Standard and Future Buildings Standard consultation could leave resulting legislation open to legal challenge Read More >>> lnkd.in/eZy_GNHq #carbonemissions #FutureHomesStandard

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is claiming a comprehensive victory from a judicial review of decisions made by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) relating to search warrants. Read More >>> lnkd.in/gAzKaMNV #CMA #CAT #JudicialReview

A company director has been given a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to health and safety breaches that exposed workers to asbestos. Read More >>> lnkd.in/eF5m3m6i #constructionlaw #healthandsafetybreaches #asbestos #EyeTrackLimited

The UK government’s climate plan to achieve net-zero carbon by 2050 was unlawful, Justice Clive Sheldon has ruled in the High Court, in a second legal rejection of its climate policies. Read More >>> lnkd.in/gbC5GNNf

Network Rail has launched a new form of partnership on its £3.5 billion Control Period 7 (CP7) infrastructure investment in the Eastern Region. Read More >>> lnkd.in/gaMUswke #NetworkRail #ControlPeriod7 #Innovation #CP7 #ConstructionLaw

Campaigners Transport Action Network (TAN) have launched a legal challenge to the granting of a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the £1.5 billion A66 Northern Trans-Pennine road scheme. Read More >>> lnkd.in/eRgUZz3G #RoadProject #TAN #DCO #TransPennineRoadScheme

The Scottish Parliament has unanimously approved legislation that gives Ministers powers to assesses and remediate buildings with unsafe cladding where consent of the owners has not been provided. Read More >>> lnkd.in/efrj2s9n #ScottishParliament #legislation #cladding

Anti Stonehenge road tunnel campaigners have won the right to challenge the outcome of a judicial review which said the scheme that passes near the world heritage site on the A303 could go ahead. Read More >>> lnkd.in/eyXiGNyp hashtag#Stonehenge hashtag#constructionlaw