The race is on… Countdown to the general election part three: Infrastructure and creating communities

2024-04-09T06:00:00

Over the next few months, Building will have a political focus: what do the parties have to offer? What does construction want and need? Here is the final instalment of our three-parter with an overview of election topics

Infrastructure

The state of play

The National Infrastructure Commission last year laid out the task awaiting future governments to fix infrastructure in the UK over the coming decades. It said £30bn a year was needed from the taxpayer, with a further £40bn to £50bn a year from the private sector. This level of investment, the commission said, should be sustained until 2040.

The most famous infrastructure project of the lot is HS2, which has been pared back so much that the line is now being referred to by HS2 itself as one “which will almost halve journey times between Britain’s two largest cities”. That was not really the plan; it was supposed to boost the whole of the UK economy.

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