AUDIO NEWS: Site manager saves schoolboy and labour shortages could derail Labour's housing plan
Posted: Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
A site manager with Tilbury Douglas saved the life of a schoolboy who had gone into a diabetic emergency outside a hospital he’d just finished building. Adam Bednall scooped up ten-year-old Brooklyn Alwill Foster, when he collapsed outside the Walsall Manor Hospital. Bednall then sprinted to the resuscitation unit saving vital seconds. Brooklyn’s mother, Sophie Foster said: “if Adam hadn’t been there, it could have been a very different ending because… Brooklyn very nearly died.” --- A lack of skilled construction workers and product manufacturing capacity is threatening to derail Labour’s plan to build 1.5 million homes over the next five years. Nobel Francis, a director with the Construction Products Association said there “just won’t be the people” to meet this key manifesto pledge. Writing on LinkedIn, Francis estimated that the new government would have to build 300,000 homes every year, for the next five years. However, it will require a 66% production increase, which is “clearly not going to happen”. Francis added that while easing planning issues would make a big difference in the medium term, it isn’t a cure for all the challenges in the industry. --- UK consumers have wasted nearly £3 million a year, due a low understanding of flood risks – that according to data from Flood Re. The research showed that just 5% of people living in high-risk areas correctly identify the flood risk. Nearly 70% said they thought they lived in a low-risk flood area. -- To listen to the construction news, please click below.
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