A Northampton roofing contractor has been fined £16,650 after a 31-year-old employee fell more than three metres through an uncovered skylight opening while re-covering a single-storey flat roof on Sywell Road, suffering injuries requiring surgery and long-term treatment. Health & Safety Executive investigators found Kingsley Roofing Contractors Limited had not properly planned work at height or installed effective fall-prevention measures around two large skylight openings. The firm pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and was ordered to pay £7,205 in costs plus a £2,000 victim surcharge.

Mace will start main works in early 2025 on Helical’s £200m, 235,000 sq ft over-station office scheme above Paddington station, a 19-storey Grimshaw-designed canalside building with 15 office floors and ground-floor retail, now targeting completion in Q3 2028 instead of Q4 2028. Preparatory works are already under way ahead of formal site acquisition in January 2026, with Helical developing the project in joint venture with Places for London. Helical has also agreed heads of terms for forward funding a 429-studio student block above Southwark Tube and forward sale of 44 affordable homes to Southwark Council, with construction planned from H1 2026 to 2029.

Work has started on Baltic Wharf in Bristol, where The Hill Group and Goram Homes will build 166 harbourside homes on a complex brownfield site on Spike Island, backed by a £2.4m Brownfield Land Release Fund grant. The scheme delivers 66 affordable units owned by Sovereign Network Group, including 50 for social rent and 16 for shared ownership, giving a 40% affordable housing mix. Plans also reopen a previously restricted waterfront, reconnecting the River Avon to the Floating Harbour with new pedestrian links, public realm, café and flexible commercial space, with first homes due spring 2027.