{"id":8758,"date":"2025-09-09T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=8758"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:46:53","slug":"tuesday-09-09-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/tuesday-09-09-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday: 09\/09\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 09\/09\/2025<\/h6>\n

The Regulator of Social Housing\u2019s 2025 Casework Review highlights lessons on governance, financial viability, and consumer standards to help landlords deliver better homes for tenants. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Colchester City Council aims to deliver up to 350 affordable homes at Northern Gateway as part of efforts to tackle the housing crisis. In Gloucestershire, a \u00a338m forward funding deal from Thriving Investments and Gresham House will deliver 160 affordable homes in Cam. Meanwhile, Newcastle City Council reported a growing number of homes with unresolved damp and mould cases, with more than 1,800 inherited from Your Homes Newcastle last year. <\/span>Colchester Borough Council<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Housing Digital<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Thousands of housing professionals have gathered in Liverpool for the Housing Community Summit, with full coverage available in one place. <\/span>Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Crown Commercial Service has launched bidding for its \u00a33.5bn pan-government construction consultants framework, with around 25 incumbent firms competing to retain places on the Construction Professional Services 2 framework. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Housing association VIVID has appointed PMC Construction as principal contractor for the Victory Quay development in Portsmouth, where work will start on the first phase of 183 new homes, forming part of a wider plan to deliver 835 homes in total. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bouygues UK has posted a third consecutive year of losses, with pre-tax deficits since 2022 totalling around \u00a3136m due to safety-related costs. Ipswich-based One Group surpassed \u00a3200m in turnover for the first time, while Eric Wright Construction achieved a third consecutive profitable year through framework work and strict two-stage tendering. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

In August, construction sector administrations remained steady, with 21 firms entering insolvency, one more than July. In Scotland, Dundee-based McGill\u2019s administration closed, paying \u00a3185,689 solely to former employees, leaving other creditors unpaid. Creditors of collapsed fitout specialist Beck Interiors, seeking \u00a3113.2m, were informed that insufficient funds remain to cover their claims. <\/span>Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Scottish Housing News<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Construction Wave<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The London construction market has shrunk by nearly 30% year-on-year, despite growth in major infrastructure projects, highlighting a sector under strain. Meanwhile, the use of AI in construction projects has surged from 15% to 75% over the past two years, according to research by the Association for Project Management. <\/span>Construction Wave<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>PBC Today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Wiltshire Council approved up to 2,500 homes at Ashton Park, Trowbridge. In South London, the next phase of a 2,170-home estate regeneration was unveiled. In Manchester, LWP Redbank plans two towers of 43 and 18 storeys with 509 flats as part of the \u00a34bn Victoria North regeneration, while Barratt Homes submitted an outline application for 140 homes in Bluntisham. <\/span>Persimmon Homes<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>MyLondon<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>The Hunts Post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 09\/09\/2025 The Regulator of Social Housing\u2019s 2025 Casework Review highlights lessons on governance, financial viability, and consumer standards to help landlords deliver better homes for tenants. GOV.UK Colchester City Council aims to deliver up to 350 affordable homes at Northern Gateway as part of efforts to tackle the housing crisis. In Gloucestershire, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8762,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}