By Neil Sansbury

This Budget came at crunch time for our construction sector.

The government has spent over a year laying out its vision for growth – backed by long-term infrastructure ambitions, planning reform, and a substantial national pipeline – but vision alone will not deliver the growth the UK needs.

There must now be relentless and meticulous efforts to turn these commitments into tangible progress on the ground.

Despite reassuring rhetoric that infrastructure is fundamental to economic renewal - and the announcement of major backing for projects such as the Lower Thames Crossing, Northern Power Rail, and local service construction - the Budget still leaves a gap between the scale of the challenge and an instructive way forward for achieving the right pace of delivery.

We continue to lack the roadmap to overcome and unblock the practical barriers that constrain delivery. Without a means of acceleration, the UK risks losing momentum at the very moment it should be pushing forward.

We need strong and consistent coordination at the centre of government if we are to meet targets and maintain the UK’s competitive edge. The recent........

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