Half-built Britain \u2013 unlocking the nation\u2019s infrastructure growth plans has been written for the Construction Plant-hire Association. It investigates how the government\u2019s plans translate into action on the ground through the lens of three major policy releases over the summer of 2025\u2014the Comprehensive Spending Review, Industrial Strategy, and National Infrastructure Strategy.<\/p>\n
In July 2024, the new UK government was elected on a manifesto commitment to develop a new 10-year infrastructure strategy. Its ambitions are certainly bold: it has identified a pipeline of almost 800 projects amounting to \u00a3530 billion of investment over the next decade, with \u00a3285 billion publicly funded.
Half-built Britain\u2014unlocking the nation\u2019s infrastructure growth plans written for the Construction Plant-hire Association investigates how these plans will translate into action on the ground through the lens of three major policy releases over the summer of 2025\u2014the Comprehensive Spending Review, Industrial Strategy, and National Infrastructure Strategy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis report provides a timely and insightful assessment of the opportunities and challenges facing the UK\u2019s construction and infrastructure sector. It demonstrates that while the government\u2019s National Infrastructure Strategy sets a strong direction, delivery will depend on a stable policy environment, predictable pipelines, and a confident supply chain capable of meeting the country\u2019s ambitions.\u201d
-Steve Mullholland, Chief Executive, Construction Plant-hire Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half-built Britain \u2013 unlocking the nation\u2019s infrastructure growth plans has been written for the Construction Plant-hire Association. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,144657,5286,393,72830,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-563993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-construction-and-engineering","12":"tag-economic-growth","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-fiscal-policy","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115532212912610603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}