With it being Caddick building it, I doubt they'll be any monetary clauses, just the project manager might feel a bit of pressure

That sounds completely feasible. Damages for late student accommodation is usually a frightening amount. If the accommodation is late you could be into £200 a week per student x 1,000 beds, plus transport costs, professional fees etc., to put them up elsewhere. What you might be talking about is acceleration costs, either paid by the client to the main contractor or, more probably, main contractor to sub-contractor, to avoid having to pay damages for late delivery.

They have now applied for extended working hours on the Saturday beyond the morning only working allowed up to now so it sounds like they are feeling the time pressure already.

There has only been one Saturday morning where I have seen them working via the cameras of course. Personally wouldn’t be surprised if it gets extended.

The limitation on working hours will be a planning condition as part of the planning approval. An application (& fee) will need to be made to the Council to amend/relax the condition. It might be that the case officer can determine the application or it might have to go to the planning committee (Councillors).
Conditions are applied (in theory) to enhance the quality of development and enable development proposals to proceed where it would otherwise have been necessary to refuse planning permission, by mitigating the adverse effects of the development.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ ... -1-8945716 I wonder if the business concern cited in the above article is Leeds Rugby?

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ ... -1-8945716 I wonder if the business concern cited in the above article is Leeds Rugby?

looks like it , but there must have been more than councilor Dunn who objected to that

I'm no builder but can anyone explain why they seem to have built one half almost entirely, but not even started on the other?

yes, south stand is single stand so literally half the size of the dual main stand, its also a simpler design, it started well before main stand started. ground works and preparation for the dual main stand will be longer as its a more complex design. once it starts to go up it will go up at a similar rate to the south stand.

No, no. I meant why have they seemingly built half of the new South Stand, without touching the other half.

ahh see what you mean, well its not suspension bridge so they don't have to meet in the middle. but is simply that its built in a serious of phases ground work starting left to right then steel then, concrete then fit out, first fix final fix decoration, each trade will follow on in that way, so by the time they get to the end of the main structure they will have started or partially finished fit out at the start, ie seats toilets, then electrics plumbing etr.