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500m bricks ‘just sitting there’ as 1.5m homes target looms

cityam.com · 19hShare

There are half a billion bricks lying unused in Britain, it has been revealed, piling fresh pressure on the government’s “stretch target” of building 1.5m homes by the next election. As many as 500,000,000 bricks – enough to build 50,000 homes – are “just sitting there” in factory yards across the country, the GMB Union [...]

First report: 'Slim chance' government will hit 1.5m new homes target, Rayner tells BBC — bbc.co.uk, 2d