Financial & Legal

  • Ferrovial UK lifts margin as order book strengthens

    Ferrovial UK lifts margin as order book strengthens

    Ferrovial’s UK construction arm has reported a sharp rise in profit and margin for 2025, signalling stronger commercial discipline as the contractor builds a longer, better-quality forward workload.

  • Stodmarsh approval opens route for Kent housing pipeline

    Stodmarsh approval opens route for Kent housing pipeline

    Natural England has approved a strategic nutrient mitigation scheme in the Stour catchment, enabling credits that could unlock thousands of delayed homes around Ashford, Canterbury, and the wider Stodmarsh-affected area.

  • Planning appeals shift to digital service

    Planning appeals shift to digital service

    England’s planning appeals system has shifted onto a new platform. Most new planning and enforcement appeals now move through the digital service, with fresh procedural rules in force for post-April applications.

  • Skanska order growth lifts focus onto project quality

    Skanska order growth lifts focus onto project quality

    Skanska UK has reported a sharp rise in new orders, driven by major building and infrastructure wins, even as margins softened during the early delivery phase of several large projects.

  • Making Tax Digital adds pressure to self-employed trades

    Making Tax Digital adds pressure to self-employed trades

    Self-employed tradespeople are heading into Making Tax Digital with many still handling their own accounts, as fuel, energy, equipment, and payment pressures continue to weigh on day-to-day cashflow.

  • How the SME squeeze is slowing housing delivery

    How the SME squeeze is slowing housing delivery

    Smaller builders are still operating with very little slack today. Planning delays, viability pressure, labour shortages, and supply-chain fragility are keeping many SME developers in risk-management mode rather than expansion mode.

  • Lafarge ruling raises pressure on boardroom oversight

    Lafarge ruling raises pressure on boardroom oversight

    A French court has convicted Lafarge and several former executives over payments made to armed groups in Syria, sharpening focus on governance in global materials businesses.

  • Materials producers warn tax pressure is biting

    Materials producers warn tax pressure is biting

    The Mineral Products Association says rising tax costs and weak demand are constraining investment across the producers that underpin housing and infrastructure delivery.

  • Eurotunnel fined £2.25m over lighting mast failure

    Eurotunnel fined £2.25m over lighting mast failure

    Eurotunnel has been fined £2.25m after a lighting carriage fell during a maintenance operation at the Channel Tunnel terminal in Folkestone, seriously injuring an engineering surveyor.

  • Miami Signature Bridge delays deepen under scrutiny

    Miami Signature Bridge delays deepen under scrutiny

    Pressure is mounting on Miami’s Signature Bridge project after a worker fatality, renewed safety investigation, and continuing disputes over design and construction defects. With estimated completion now pushed to December 2029, the job has become a stark test of urban megaproject control.