Labour’s opportunity: Releasing the potential of modular housing

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The UK leads the way in the field of offsite housing construction. It is time for the government to have some skin in the game, Ben Derbyshire writes

Despite everything, it looks as if the progress we are making in the UK with modular offsite manufactured housing is gaining global attention – that’s if recent invitations we’ve received at HTA Design are anything to go by.

What seems to be grabbing the world’s attention are two projects recently completed in Croydon, both for US-based client Greystar and both delivered by the sector-leading contractor Tide Construction with its astonishingly slick supply chain, especially the Vision Volumetric subcontractor.

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