In his first post-election speech George Osborne has set out ‘revolutionary’ plans for English cities to get powers over housing, healthcare, transport, planning and policing. A Cities Devolution Bill will be in the Queen’s Speech later this month. The legislation…
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Construction: Second quarter housing starts up 18 percent on last year
The level of England’s new housing construction activity in the April to June quarter of 2014 was unchanged on the first quarter but up 18% year-on-year. The latest statistics show that there were 36,230 new housing starts in England between…
Housing Construction has its sharpest rise since November 2003
The seasonally adjusted Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) registered 62.4 in July, down slightly from 62.6 in June but above the neutral 50.0 mark for the 15th successive month. Moreover, the latest expansion of overall construction activity was…
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