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Frank Haslam Milan a company who specialise in Regeneration has said they plan to double their workforce over the next two years.

The company that is based in Sunderland has created a new recruitment programme saying they want over 200 new staff for the north east of England and in the process because they have a lot more staff they will build a new regional presence.

If you want to be considered for one of the positions which include contract management, quantity surveying, site management they will be holding recruitment events on the 24 – 25 November in Middlesbrough and Newcastle.

Liverpool has been praised by an international delegation from Shanghai and highlighted and praised the changes in Liverpool that transformed it over the past 10 years.

The officials were in the city for 3 days ahead of the world expo which takes place next year and Liverpool was the only entry in the UK and 1 out of the 200 entries expected to take part and the regeneration of the city will be show cased there.

Guan Weiyong the deputy secretary general said

Coming to Liverpool was like coming to a second home. We are very keen to build on the friendships that we have established during our stay here and over the last ten years.”

The regeneration plans for Rhyl seafront is in doubt at the moment as their has not been a buyer for it at the cost of around £85 Million.

The land used to be home to the famous fun fair which is owned by Modus who are currently in administration; there have been people interested in the plans but to date there is no buyer.

The plans consist of apartment comples a supermarket and a hotel and to top that off shops offices cafes and also for the green people 10 wind turbines.

Gyn Pickering the mayor has said

the development was an integral part of the future for Rhyl We cannot stand still on this – we’re going to have to find some way of continuing the redevelopment of Rhyl

Rochdale has received from GMPTE a application to build a £11.5 million interchange on smith street which is next to the river Roch in the town centre

Rochdale’s new transport interchange will be a vast improvement for both passengers and bus operators, who currently use a very outdated bus station built in the 1970s

. Said Michael Renshaw the director of GMPTE, he also added

The new interchange will provide improved passenger facilities such as a shop, a Travelshop and toilets, along with bus operator and supervisor facilities, and there will be electronic passenger information display. Bus passenger and driver safety is our highest priority and has been integral to the design of the new interchange. As with all our new stations, we are making sure that we keep passengers away from moving buses as much as possible.

They have worked closely with the council over the past 4 years to ensure that the project will be a success and subject to them getting planning permission they plan to start in 2010

Tottenham Hotspur FC have applied to construct a new 56,000 seater ground in a bid to elevate themselves into the top group of clubs in the country.

The chairman of Tottenham, Daniel Levy, said that they were aiming to create the most fan-friendly ground in the whole of Europe and that the design reflected this, with a better view of the pitch than in any other ground of similar size.

The project director added that the design was geared towards providing the best stadium atmosphere possible with reduced space set aside for corporate spectators. The bowl design should reflect sound and it should be a fantastic arena in which to watch football.

The group responsible for acquiring development sites ahead of the London 2012 Olympics, the London Development Agency, are facing scrutiny following an investigation into the land acquisition scheme uncovered an overspend of almost £160 million. This figure is up from an original estimate of £86-£100 million.

Chief executive of the London Development Agency Sir Peter Rogers faced questions from a committee at the London assembly asking why the problem was not picked up earlier, with evidence suggesting information was available to spot the problem as far back as April 2008.

It appears that no lessons were learnt from the last time there was an accounting problem with the LDA, when accountancy firm Deloitte were called in about the funding of cultural grants.

Work hasn’t been progressing on Liverpool Football Club’s new stadium. Stanley Park is going to be the new ground for Liverpool after the end of the 2011/12 season. It will be officially opened in August 2012 and will seat 60,000 fans with the option to have another 11,000 seats if required. The new Kop alone will hold 12,500 which is 5,000 more than the original Kop at Anfield.

Although ground work has been completed on site, nothing further seems to have happened which could be due to the current economic climate. It has been rumoured that the American owners of Liverpool FC have not yet managed to raise enough cash for the stadium to be built.

The London 2012 Olympics are only 3 years away and construction started on the Olympic village and all of the facilities even before the Olympics in Beijing had finished but are we on track to meet the targets for its completion?

Beijing set a high standard last year after producing some spectacular buildings to house to games, including the ‘cube’ for the swimming and the ‘Bird’s Nest’ for all the track and field events. We are all hoping that London is going to be even more amazing but will it all be finished in time?

The Olympic committee have already claimed that the London 2012 games will be the ‘greenest’ games ever. The Olympic village is located in Lower Lea Valley in East London. The project is twice the size of Heathrow’s Terminal Five and it is hoped it will be delivered in half of the time.

So far the buildings that are underway are the Aquatics Centre, Olympic Village and VeloPark. Construction will continue to accelerate over the next year or so when they will start to construct the last of the ‘big five’ venues which will include the International Broadcast Centre which will stream the games live across the world.

Sweden has sustainability incorporated into all of their new developments. Take the Vastra Hamnen development in Malmo for example. The docklands of the city were derelict and run down after the demise of the ship building industry in the 1970s. However, the city council took it upon themselves to redevelop the entire site, creating a new residential area as well as a number of mixed use developments, public open space and green infrastructure.

It has transformed an otherwise dilapidated part of Malmo as well as incorporating the ‘green’ credentials into all the developments. The majority of the electricity used on site will be obtained from renewable resources; waste water is recycled and reused onsite.

Would it be that difficult for Britain to include some of these ideas into new developments? Home owners already have certain rights set out in the General Permitted Development Order which states they can do certain things to their homes to make them greener such as installing solar panels or laying down extra insulation. But will it ever be possible to Britain to become totally ‘green’? Only time will tell.