Legal

Quintain and John Sisk & Son have secured a new legal order to keep trespassers off cranes overlooking Wembley Stadium. Sisk is delivering a new £220m neighbourhood called North East Lands at Wembley Park in north London. It will eventually include more than 2,000 new homes, public realm and a…

The City of London Corporation has called in lawyers to help it resolve a dispute with housebuilder Redrow over “potentially serious” fire safety concerns in a high-rise tower block. In 2013, the corporation leased 16-storey former YMCA building Blake Tower, which is in the Barbican Estate, to Redrow. The housebuilder…

Willmott Dixon has been accused of “contributory negligence” by two companies that it is trying to sue over combustible cladding on a mixed-use development in Woolwich, London. Aecom and AIS Chartered Surveyors have both pointed the finger back at Willmott Dixon, which is trying to recoup the costs of remedial…

The government has asked the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to identify how the planning system could be changed to speed up the delivery of major infrastructure projects. The NIC will review the current approach to National Policy Statements – part of the Planning Act – to identify how the system…

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.…

The first remediation contribution order under the Building Safety Act has been issued by a tribunal, requiring a landlord to repay leaseholders £195,000. The ruling indicates that many leaseholders can expect to be able use these orders, made possible under the 2022 law, to recover historic remediation costs – whether…

MPs and peers have called for real-time monitoring of silica dust to be looked at as a “matter of urgency” as it is the biggest health risk to construction workers after asbestos.  Silicosis is defined by the NHS as “a long-term lung disease caused by inhaling large amounts of crystalline silica…

Balfour Beatty is on site carrying out work on a Travelodge hotel after an £800,000 dispute over alleged combustible cladding and other defects was settled. In 2020, Construction News revealed that Travelodge was suing Balfour over what it said were faults at the 70-room hotel on Princess Way, Swansea. Travelodge…

Morgan Sindall is seeking damages from a consultant over defects on Old Trafford Cricket Ground. The case against consultant Capita Property and Infrastructure is set to go ahead after a court ignored the consultant’s pleas to throw it out on the basis that the contractor sat on the evidence for…

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…