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Henley's former office. Credit: 2023 Google Streetview Southern Housing has appointed Formation Design & Build to finish a housing scheme in Croydon that was left in limbo after the collapse of its previous contractor. Henley Construct was building the 116-home scheme on Cherry Orchard Road when it entered administration in April 2023, owing millions of

Image © 2023 Google Unsecured creditors linked to collapsed contractor J Tomlinson are set to receive a dividend after all, after HMRC claimed less money than was expected. Administrators from FRP Advisory did not expect unsecured creditors – including the construction supply chain – to receive any of the £33m they were owed when J

Former employees of a contractor that went into administration last spring have received compensation because they were not consulted before they lost their jobs. The 20 former employees of ARJ Construction all received 90 days’ pay after the Employment Tribunal found the contractor did not consult them or any union representatives before they lost their

Britishvolt, the start-up electric vehicle battery manufacturer behind a £3.8bn gigafactory in Northumberland, went under owing around £160m, it has emerged. A new report from administrators at EY shows that those owed money by the company included mechanical and electrical (M&E) giant NG Bailey, which is out of pocket by more than £2m. The report

A collapsed company has been sentenced for failing to keep its workers safe after a 48-year-old man was fatally crushed by a 20-tonne excavator. Kidderminster-based Birch Brothers, which went into liquidation last year, had been building a concrete overflow weir structure at a pond in Derbyshire in 2017. Philip McDonald was one of the workers

Collapsed contractor Jehu Group received £7.5m in taxpayer-funded grants and loans while it was struggling, it has emerged. A report by the Bridgend-headquartered company’s administrators revealed that the circa £70m-turnover firm received £5.1m in loans from the Welsh Government-owned Development Bank of Wales in the year before it went under. It was also granted £2.4m-worth