Budget 2020 | Industry Reactions

Our Director, Rob Barnes, shares his reaction with yesterday’s Budget 2020 with Professional Housebuilder & Property Developer.

“The government’s commitment of £400m to encourage building on brownfield is to be welcomed. For too long this issue has been on the back burner and it’s high time we made use of the perfectly good land which exists within our urban areas but has not been utilised. I think it dovetails nicely with the commitment to build an extra 70,000 homes in high-demand areas, representing a more strategic approach to housebuilding and construction, something we have not seen from our policy makers for a number of years.”

“The push towards improving our infrastructure is encouraging, particularly roads and rail networks, but I’ll be interested to see how this sits alongside commitments to meeting our 2020 net-zero carbon targets. In my opinion, I think it’s going to be very much a case of one or the other, down the line, something will have to give.”