The Labour government’s pledge to build 1.5mn homes in England over the next five years risks being stymied by a shortfall of more than 150,000 skilled construction workers, the building industry’s training body has warned.
Tim Balcon, chief executive of the Construction Industry Training Board, said new planning laws, set out in the King’s Speech, that aim to increase the number of new homes would fail without a step-change in skills training.
“We simply do not have enough workers in the construction industry right now,” he said, adding that up to 152,000 extra workers would need to be found under Labour’s housebuilding proposals, according to Citb research.
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