While planning applications have risen, home building has lowered, new data suggests. Source link

BBCThe Bank of England covers a three-and-a-half acre site in the City of LondonThe echoing boom of a slammed door rattles around the walls of the Bank of England's ...

The construction of three new towns will begin before the next general election, Labour has pledged.A taskforce has recommended 12 locations in England for development, with three areas - ...

Work has been paused at a Coleraine building site after World War Two-era mortar bombs were discovered.Last week Army Technical Officers (ATO) carried out a controlled explosion found in ...

Chris BaraniukTechnology ReporterInventWoodInventwood's timber is treated to become super-strongCould your house take a bullet for you?Clad it with a new type of modified wood, and it might, says Alex ...

BBCA damaged roof was visible on MondayA lightning strike has caused a building to catch fire on a farm in Aberdeenshire.The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service dispatched nine appliances ...

Alison FrancisSenior Science JournalistNASA/Goddard/University of ArizonaAsteroid Bennu is a 500m-wide pile of boulders, rocks and rubbleThe chemical building blocks of life have been found in the grainy dust of ...

Katy ScottBBC Scotland NewsThe Alexander Thomson SocietyA canvas façade showing the halls at their former glory now covers the scaffolding in front of the buildingGlasgow City Council is considering ...

Paul Brown, Richard Irvine-Brown and Alex MurrayBBC VerifyBBC / Planet Lab PBCNewly released satellite imagery shows Israel Defense Forces (IDF) construction taking place within the demilitarised buffer zone that ...

Roads were closed and homes evacuated following the collapse of a building in Gwynedd on Sunday night. North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said no-one was injured in the ...

Getty ImagesThe government will be given the power to bypass council planning committees in England under plans to make it easier to build new homes.Officials will be allowed to ...

Hinkley Point CThe 500-tonne steel nuclear reactor is lowered into position at Hinkley PointWorkers have fitted a reactor into the first nuclear power station to be built in Britain ...