More footholds emerge to help businesses benefit from the £1bn Golden Valley Development

If Gloucestershire's to truly capitalise on the Golden Valley Development it needs to land the jobs it will create or it'll be a lost opportunity of a lifetime. How it can do that just became clearer.

Dear reader,

All the talk last week around National Apprenticeships Week was difficult to escape if you are a regular visitor to social media.

Also difficult to escape is the regular output of marketing from the team at the Golden Valley Development, the high-profile Cheltenham Borough Council-led project to build a new business park and thousands of houses on land to the West of GCHQ.

The latter comes with talk of how it will create several hundred jobs in construction in the county and thousands more thereafter. Which brings us back to apprenticeships and the need for better pathways for career development at all levels in the sector.

Last week all that talk around apprenticeships led us to the news we share below of some real, tangible developments that look set to help pave the way for delivering some of the solutions to all that - and creating real opportunities in the construction sector for businesses and ambitious individuals alike.

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