Brexit

A planning application is being drawn up for a 54-storey tower in the City of London to replace a 1970s-built block that is home to the HQ of Multiplex Europe. The City of London Corporation this month received preliminary notification of the proposal, which would see a new 240 metre-high…

Ministers have scaled back plans that would have seen some construction safety laws scrapped. The EU Retained Law Bill was set to automatically "sunset" thousands of rules introduced while the UK was part of the bloc. But business secretary Kemi Badenoch (pictured) said yesterday (10 May) that instead of regulations…

Building safety could be jeopardised if “reckless” plans to scrap EU-era regulations go ahead, the government has been warned. Legislation is now going through parliament that will see thousands of laws dating from the UK’s membership of the EU automatically expire after December, unless they are specifically kept or replaced.…

A coalition of groups has launched a campaign to stop the government scrapping several key health and safety laws at the end of the year. The coalition is warning of the dangers around doing away with rules covering health and safety at work, manual handling operations, the use of display-screen…

The government has postponed a key post-Brexit change to the certification of construction products. The delay, which will see the rule change come into effect on 30 June 2025, has been welcomed by a number of trade bodies. The CE mark is a certification stamp indicating conformity with EU health,…

Whitehall has announced plans to extend the use of current CE marks for another two years. Business secretary Grant Shapps said that firms had been given extra time to apply for the new product standards marking, which will replace the EU equivalent. The extension will allow UK firms to use…

Construction industry leaders have written to ministers calling for a two-year delay in introducing the UK’s post-Brexit product-quality mark, saying that it could harm project delivery. From January, any fully manufactured items marketed at British users are set to require a UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark to show they have…

A five-point plan to mitigate the impact of rising inflation on construction companies has been published by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC). The list – created by the CLC in conjunction with sector experts – aims to resolve issues around the availability and cost of key materials amid current pressures.…

The national shortfall in haulage capacity has become the biggest concern for suppliers of construction materials and builders’ merchants, according to data collected by the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF). The trade body said a snap survey of its members found 67 per cent of builders’ merchants and 86 per cent…

The government has delayed post-Brexit changes to the certification of construction products by one year, easing fears that the planned schedule would worsen current shortages of key building materials. Following the UK’s departure from the EU at the start of this year, the government had planned to halt recognition of…