May29th
Friday, May 29th, 2009
The decline in construction is ’slowing’. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors found the fall in construction workloads, now in its fourth quarter, was less steep. Though the improvement was most noticeable in non-housing and infrastructure projects, the Federation of Master Builders think that there is definite ‘deceleration’, which means we are perhaps reaching the bottom of the recession even in the housing sector. This is also supported NHBC’s latest statistics indicating the decline in UK house-building is stabilising, with this year’s first quarter bringing the first quarter-on-quarter rise in applications to start new homes in almost two years. (more…)
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May15th
Friday, May 15th, 2009
Last week I was at the House of Commons in the company of Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change who was speaking at the special Parliamentary launch of The Big Green Home, a major new initiative by the National Home Home Improvement Council (NHIC) and British Gas to move UK’s existing housing stock towards low carbon emissions and water conservation. (more…)
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May8th
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Lord Mandelson, the UK Business Secretary, speaking at a CBI event last week, said that recession is a psychological as well as economic event. He was arguing against Tory ‘doom and austerity’ talk saying that a bit of positive thinking could make a difference. It maybe an explanation of why Gordon Brown is being forced to smile in such a bizarre fashion as he tries to radiate this Mandleson optimism. (more…)
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