News in Brief: April 2024

Non-league Sheffield FC, widely regarded as the world’s oldest football club, and Sheffield Eagles, the city’s professional rugby league club, have unveiled detailed plans for an innovative new 5,000-seater stadium. Located at the former Sheffield Transport Sports Club site at Meadowhead, it will also include a cricket pavilion, football museum and an indoor community sports hall.

Tungsten Properties has awarded McLaren Construction the £41M contract for Centurion Park, an industrial and logistics development in Colchester, Essex. Designed for light industrial, general industrial, storage and distribution uses. It will provide 11 units within 10 buildings, with a total floor area of 33,212m². On completion, the project will target BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and EPC A+ ratings.

Morgan Sindall Construction’s North West team has been appointed on behalf of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council to design and build a new £12M 450-space multi-storey car park. Forming part of a much wider regeneration scheme, the steel-framed structure will have five levels.

GMI Construction is set to build the luxury 118- room boutique Dakota hotel, which will transform the vacant St Anne’s Wharf building in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Scheduled for completion in Spring 2025, the development will generate 150 new jobs as well as creating an estimated £1.5M boost to the local economy.

Construction work to deliver a new flexible teaching space has begun at the University of Worcester. Located at the Severn Campus, the new three-storey building has been designed by Glancey Nicholls Architects. Locally-based contractor Speller Metcalfe is due to complete the scheme in February 2025.