Urgent work to make buildings safer can be undertaken now that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a £1bn building safety fund, says Helen Hewitt, CEO of the British Woodworking Federation. “We welcome the government’s commitment to a £1bn building safety fund which will allow urgent work to be[ More….]
Analysis reveals that only three regions – London, the East Midlands and Wales – showed an increase in the number of residential contracts awarded last year. The government’s ability to deliver 300,000 new homes annually by the mid-2020s has been thrown into doubt after figures suggested the number of contract[ More….]
Good news for the housebuilding sector as the latest figures from the NHBC says that private sector registrations climbed 9% between March and May 2019 against the same period last year. During this rolling quarter, 31,322 private sector homes were registered to be built. Registrations for affordable and rental homes[ More….]
Great news as April data pointed to a marginal expansion of UK construction output, driven by the fastest rise in housebuilding so far in 2019. Commercial work and civil engineering activity continued to decline, but at slower rates than in March. Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI® Key Findings: Construction output rises[ More….]
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