Construction industry gossip: Playing all the right notes but…

By Hansom2019-11-22T06:00:00

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Terrible at names

The housing secretary Robert Jenrick sent off a letter to the project team behind a scheme he’d turned down earlier this month in West Yorkshire. He had “carefully considered” the key planning issues at stake and decided Burley in Wharfedale didn’t need 500 extra homes after all. A shame, then, that less careful consideration was applied to other areas. Ministry officials managed to spell Wharfedale incorrectly 13 times over nine pages in its letter bearing the bad news.

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