Manchester leads the way as crane survey reports booming regional workloads

By Dave Rogers2019-02-05T06:00:00

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Deloitte says residential and office work fuelling starts in UK’s major cities

Workloads in Manchester and Leeds have hit record levels with the two cities leading a regional building boom, the latest Deloitte crane survey has said.

While confidence in London falters, up the M6 Manchester is undergoing a residential boom with close to 15,000 units being built – double that of just two years ago.

And the city has 2 million sq ft of office space under construction across 13 schemes with a quarter of the schemes going ahead as pre-lets.

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