Mixed Perceptions on UK Home Construction since the EU Referendum

Many of our builders are from other countries. The Brexit might have a negative impact to building industry due to migrant’s shortage.

The chief executive of Federation of Master Builders, Brian Berry says: ‘It is now the Government’s responsibility to ensure that the free-flowing tap of migrant workers from Europe is not turned off. If ministers want to meet their house building and infrastructure objectives, they have to ensure the new system of immigration is responsive to the needs of industry’.

He also added: ‘We need to train more construction apprentices so we are not overly reliant on migrant workers from Europe or further afield. That’s why it’s so important the Government gets the funding framework right for apprenticeships’.

However, the managing director of Millwood Designer Homes commented as such:
‘I am excited to get on with the New World and see the back of EU laws which have been detrimental to us for over 40 years. One of the UK’s biggest assets is our home grown housing market and this will now be much better off out of EU regulation. For many years, the EU Habitats Directive has had an unnecessary impact on house building. The mere hint of great crested newts or slow worms on a site, which unlike in Northern Europe where they are rare and given special protection, are prolific in the South East of England can delay building for months as they have to be translocated and caught and taken somewhere else for release’.

As per Jan Crosby, head of housing at KPMG UK, he said: ‘Our exit from the EU will stop the continual flow of red tape and see our housing market grow and flourish without unnecessary constraints placed on building much needed new homes; working towards creating a better future for Britain’.

At the present time, due to instability, there will be ups and downs in the market.

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