South Staffs backs Wheaton Aston housing development amid opposition

The Haydock-based investor is seeking to deploy capital to acquire workspace across the UK, seeing opportunity while others remain cautious about the sector’s outlook.

South Shropshire builder SJ Roberts Construction has completed on a purpose-built activity centre for adults with learning disabilities at Condover College in the village of Bings Heath.

The commercial real estate group has exchanged contracts to develop a ‘digitally automated’ self storage warehouse in the East Midlands as part of a £12m deal for three sites across the UK.

The second and final phase of Longwood Place has reached completion near the University of Warwick, bringing forward more than 1,200 student beds as part of a major regeneration project.

A Coventry school could be set to expand by 150 pupils, after local authority plans for a two-storey teaching block were submitted this week.

Final designs for a 950ft-long viaduct which will carry high speed services into Birmingham have been submitted to the city council.

Up to four modular reactors could be built in Nottinghamshire under a joint proposal submitted to the government.

An East Midlands combined authority plan to boost regeneration projects in the region looks set to be approved next week.

The current profit-based model for building housing has not worked, argued the party’s deputy leader Rachel Millward at Housing 2026 in Manchester. Her solution is this: a new approach that focuses on housing as a human right and as public infrastructure.