Labour’s Construction Boom4 Feb 2025 09:30
“Construction activity has slumped across Britain’s biggest regional cities, underscoring the depth of the challenge facing Angela Rayner as she seeks to trigger a building boom.
Developers made a start on 47 new projects in cities outside London last year according to Deloitte’s regional crane survey, which monitors construction in the central areas of Leeds, Belfast, Manchester and Birmingham.
New starts were down by 27pc compared with 2023.
The number of homes under construction across the four cities fell by 7pc to 23,673, while no new office, retail, leisure or education projects were started.”
Labour’s manifesto pledges are hilarious. 1.5m houses this Parliament ? 🤔🤣