Covid-19 has knocked the government further off course from its housebuilding targets, a study has revealed, with only 94,000 new homes built during the first nine months of 2020. The first wave of coronavirus led to the temporary closure of construction sites last spring, leaving output well below the 300,000 new homes a year which the Conservatives pledged in their manifesto, according to research by the Resolution Foundation thinktank. The government aims to deliver a million new homes by the end of the parliament, a target the Foundation described as “highly ambitious” even before the pandemic. Read more on the Guardian website.
John Judge obituary
-
As chief quantity surveyor at Manchester city council, my father, John
Judge, who has died aged 91, was part of a team that led the city’s
housebuilding ...
10 hours ago
No comments:
Post a Comment