The number of architects with qualifications from other EU nations seeking to practise in the UK has fallen for the second year in a row, the professional regulator has said.

According to the the Architects Registration Board’s just-published annual report there were 2,240 new admissions to the Register of Architects in the year to December 31, 2018 – 836 of them so-called “EU-route registrations”.

It is the second year in a row that EU-route registrations have fallen. The 2018 figure is an 11% drop on last year’s 945 – which was itself a 23% fall on the 2016 figure of 1,232.

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