Author name: Minnie Phillips

A tightened skilled worker visa setup will “impose more pressures” on construction SMEs already struggling to recruit enough workers, experts have warned. Plans to tighten access to the skilled worker visa in particular could stymie attempts to plug a widening skills gap, lawyers said in response to a new immigration white paper published on Monday […]

Profit has dropped by over two fifths at roofing specialist BriggsAmasco after a number of project delays. The latest financial results for the Sandwell-based firm show that pre-tax profit before exceptional items fell last year from £5.3m to £3m on turnover that declined from £44m to £37m, a drop of almost 16 per cent. However,

A Gateshead-based heating manufacturer has lost a High Court challenge over a tax claim on dividend income received more than two decades ago. Rettig Heating Group Ltd, now in liquidation, sought a judicial review after HMRC refused to extend a statutory time limit to offset a non-trading loan relationship deficit (NTLRD) against profits from overseas

Four construction workers and Higgins Homes have been charged by Metropolitan Police detectives over the death of a woman in Bethnal Green seven years ago. Michaela Boor, 28, was struck by a pallet containing more than two tonnes of bricks that fell from a tower crane on a Higgins Homes building development in St Paul’s

Midgard has been appointed to deliver a £145m residential project in Birmingham city centre, where more than £85m in apartments have already been sold off-plan. The contractor, part of the JRL Group, will construct Edition Birmingham, a two-tower development next to Centenary Square comprising a total of 581 one- and two-bedroom apartments. Phase one is

A government body has been warned to improve its safety after a worker was injured by a two-tonne monitor at Scotland’s largest nuclear clean-up and demolition project. Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS), which is responsible for decommissioning nuclear sites, has been served with an improvement notice by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) following the incident