Ed Griffiths 
For more than two years, the UK construction sector has been waiting for a recovery that always seems just one more forecast away. Each quarter brings another set of predictions projecting imminent growth, only for the next report to quietly revise them down. The much-anticipated rebound is always coming “later this year,” or “from Q3 … Read more
Our team of data analysts have produced a visualisation that displays the 2024 application stage progression. In 2024 the Construction industry saw some highs but unfortunately what felt like many more lows. We saw over 35K detailed planning applications (excluding individual builds), worth £126Bn; this is in decline vs 2023 from a value perspective of … Read more
The dust has settled following the General Election in the United Kingdom, with Labour settling in for five years. The construction industry, specifically the residential sector, has been promised five years of change. Can we hope for the best? Labour promises 1.5 million new homes in new manifesto Looking back at both Conservative and Labour … Read more
Since joining Barbour ABI in January of 2024 I’ve been impressed by the breadth and depth of information available through the Built Environment dataset we produce and maintain through our industry leading market research team who make over one million calls a year to ensure our projects are the most up to date in the … Read more
Aldi and Lidl have a combined 17% market share in 2023, but plan to open 51% of all UK grocery stores in 2024 Much is made of the fantastic data-sets from Nielsen and Kantar that describe current retail share performance, and rightly so, they are full of insights, but they describe what has happened rather … Read more
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