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.

Tilbury Douglas has begun a £14m project to convert an existing building in Coventry into a community diagnostic centre (CDC) for NHS Property Services and University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust. The facility, located near the Coventry Urgent Treatment Centre, GP practices and mental health services, is designed to handle around 90,000 patients annually and deliver up to 75,000 additional diagnostic tests a year for conditions including cancer and heart disease. Opening is targeted for late 2026, with a brief for a modern, energy-efficient healthcare facility.