Financial & Legal
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The collapse of FK’s core facade and construction businesses has thrown fresh light on how legal costs, bad debt, insurance pressure, and regulatory delay are weighing on specialist contractors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Mineral Products Association says rising tax costs and weak demand are constraining investment across the producers that underpin housing and infrastructure delivery.
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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.