A sinkhole roughly 8–10 m wide and several metres deep has opened on the AJ Burkitt Reserve sporting oval in Heidelberg, directly adjacent to the North East Link tunnel alignment in Melbourne’s northeast. Victorian Infrastructure Delivery Authority has confirmed the “surface hole” is in the vicinity of active tunnelling operations, leading to a work pause while engineers and emergency crews carry out geotechnical investigations and monitoring. No injuries or structural damage have been reported, but the area remains fully cordoned off pending cause determination and stability assessment.

Demolition contractor Reddem Ltd has been fined £4,000, with £4,000 costs and a £1,600 victim surcharge, for operating an illegal asbestos waste site at The Old Gas Works Yard in Wooler, Northumberland, without an environmental permit. Environment Agency and HSE inspections in June 2023 found nine skips with asbestos-containing demolition waste stored in open containers, contrary to requirements for double-bagging and sealed, enclosed skips. More than 40 tonnes of asbestos material were subsequently removed to a permitted facility, signalling continued strict enforcement of asbestos handling and waste permitting rules on demolition projects.

Multiple sinkholes along Summit Avenue near Lewis Street in Phillipsburg, New Jersey have triggered a local state of emergency after one collapse swallowed a loaded dump truck and undermined adjacent properties. Authorities have evacuated several homes, closed the affected road section, and are investigating suspected subsurface voids linked to ageing water or sewer infrastructure beneath the asphalt pavement. Geotechnical teams now face urgent stability assessment, utility leak detection, and staged backfilling or grouting in a constrained urban corridor with active buried services.