Work starts at £12m Loughborough school

The Premier League club’s ambitious stadium plans are set to grow, according to updated documents submitted this week.

A city-centre development site with planning permission for 106 homes has been put up for sale with Birmingham agent, Siddall Jones.

Caddick Construction Group is boosting its marketing and business development in a programme of targeted activity with Place Media Group in 2027.

Charity Bank will provide £5m funding to Birmingham-based Prosperity Vita, with the social housing group eyeing up delivery of housing schemes in the West Midlands.

Digbeth is having its moment. HS2 Curzon Street is rising just up the road, Smithfield breaks ground later this year, and the eyes of investors, tenants and residents are turning towards a corner of Birmingham that has spent decades being talked about but rarely delivered upon, writes George Isles of BWB Consulting.

The first bricks have been laid on a residential development at a former pub in Wolverhampton, part of a wider scheme of regeneration work.

Online groceries firm Ocado will take on 55,000 sq ft of space at Indurent’s key industrial and logistics site in Stoke-on-Trent.

The specialist construction firm, which has built major projects for Greggs, Samworth Brothers and Greene King, has announced the appointment of Stephen Roberts.

MCAP Global Finance has acquired the freehold on one of the East Midlands’ best-known city centre hotels after agreeing a £1.8m deal with Leicester City Council.