With the news that £1.2bn will be allocated to release brownfield sites in order to build 30,000 Starter Homes across the country, this is a very useful boost to our industry at a time when the economic outlook seems more gloomy. With the other announcements stating an increase in capital investment in the transport network by 50% over this Parliament compared to the last, investing £61 billion, we seem better set economically than we were in 2007.
