Council plans autumn restart for Wolves job laid low by Shaylor fall

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The 1930s venue in the West Midlands being upgraded by collapsed builder Shaylor Group has said it expects to appoint a replacement firm this autumn. Work on the £38m contract at Wolverhampton Civic Hall stopped when Shaylor went under in the middle of last month. But a spokesperson for the city council said it was "confident" a replacement would be found for the failed contractor over the coming months. She said: "We're progressing with the scheme and we are confident we will have a new contractor in place in the autumn." Work is due to complete in 2021. Artists to have played the venue, which opened in 1938, have included the Rolling Stones and Nirvana. The council's director of regeneration, Richard Lawrence, said firms had already expressed an interest in taking on the job. Last week, Lawrence told a meeting of the council: "The collapse of Shaylor as an entity was unforeseen - we undertook due diligence as part of the original contract and subsequently before the variation of the contract in February or March, both times there was no insight they would cease trading."