As a £45m housing scheme for Gloucester collapses the county's construction sector counters with positive news
Planning and skills, the two big challenges facing construction. As Gloucester's decision to reject a £45m investment underlines the former in red ink, the sector reveals a solution to the latter.
Dear readers,
Today the big read is all about construction. In fact, its two main stories are - leaving barely enough room aboard this email for anything else!
On Wednesday we reported on a scheme to invest £45 million in Gloucester - eight-years in the making, and rejected at its final hurdle.
The planning system and all that is wrong with that is just one of the challenges construction faces. You can read that story here. And there is an update below too. Spoiler alert, there is no happy ending to that one.
But today’s big read is far more positive and shows just how well the county can work together, is willing to work together and is indeed working together to find solutions.
This second story came together as a result of the recent Constructing Excellence Gloucestershire conference focus on the same issue - skills. Aside from planning it is perhaps the other big challenge facing the sector.
We were lucky enough to speak to Jonathan White, Andy Bates, Alan Mulrooney and Polly Pick and …
