UK Progress Atlas
UK project milestones, investment, science, healthcare and nature restoration.
Work on the pipelines serving the Havant Thicket Reservoir has entered the tunnelling stage. Portsmouth Water says the route totals 7 km and will be built in sections; this is a construction milestone, not completion of the reservoir.
Riverbank School and Woodlands High School have opened at Fairwater Community Campus. Their combined capacity rises from 210 to 352 places, with purpose-built learning and therapy facilities for pupils with additional learning needs.
Cambridge’s planning committee resolved to approve future Eddington phases with up to 3,800 additional homes, half intended as affordable homes for University key workers. Approval remains subject to a Section 106 agreement; this is not a construction start.
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Universal named 23 contractors, consultants and specialist advisers supporting delivery of its 476-acre theme park and resort. Enabling works are under way; package scopes and contract values have not yet been disclosed.
The Environment Agency has approved the scheme's full business case and appointed GRAHAM as construction partner. The five-kilometre project will create a new stream and wetland corridor west of Oxford, reduce flood risk to homes, businesses and transport links, and is expected to take up to five years to build.
Renaker and Manchester City Council completed the legal agreement for five approved towers containing nearly 2,400 homes. The £1 billion programme includes the 213-metre Lighthouse and affordable-housing contributions of up to £114 million; a construction timetable has not yet been announced.
Revised plans for the remaining 16 acres of the 42-acre Battersea Power Station estate propose up to 3.2 million sq ft of homes, workplaces, shops, leisure and cultural space, with smaller building clusters and new public routes.
Detailed approval covers more than 1,000 homes, a hotel, an innovation hub and a new western entrance to York station within the wider 45-hectare regeneration.
Lambeth councillors resolved to approve the seven-building scheme, including 1,097 homes, 1,164 co-living units and 699 student bedrooms. The decision remains subject to a section 106 agreement and mayoral referral.
Battersea Power Station Development Company and Sisk broke ground on Prospect Place South. The two Gehry-designed buildings are planned to deliver about 300 homes, 65,000 square feet of commercial space and a 15,000 square foot community hub, with completion expected in 2030.
Mayoral approval allows St William to progress the nearly 3,000-home Beckton Riverside masterplan and its £250 million remediation and enabling-works programme.
Construction Enquirer reported on 1 September 2026 that Laing O’Rourke secured the enabling-works package for the £400 million-plus scheme.