{"id":519442,"date":"2025-04-29T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/?p=519442"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:51:11","slug":"uk-construction-activity-march-2025-industrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/cn-intelligence\/uk-construction-activity-march-2025-industrial-29-04-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"UK construction activity March 2025: Industrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"everviz-T3oJKaDe4\" class=\"everviz-T3oJKaDe4\"><script src=\"https:\/\/app.everviz.com\/inject\/T3oJKaDe4\/?v=21\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h3>Industrial overview<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>66 per cent increase in project starts year-on-year<\/li>\n<li>45 per cent decrease in main contract awards from last year<\/li>\n<li>15 per cent increase in detailed planning approvals compared to 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the gloomy economic outlook, industrial sector project starts rose sharply against both the previous quarter and a year earlier, driven by strong increases in major projects. Main contract awards, on the other hand, fell against both periods.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in major project starts has been boosted by two major logistics facilities, highlighting the continued appetite for such facilities, despite the current uncertain geo-political landscape.<\/p>\n<h3>Types of projects started<\/h3>\n<p>The overall growth of project starts in the sector was driven by warehousing &amp; logistics, with the remaining two categories having declined year-on-year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warehousing &amp; logistics accounted for 62 per cent of industrial project starts, 298 per cent up on a year ago to total \u00a31.572b<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing fell 15 per cent year-on-year, totalling \u00a3896m, a 35 per cent share of the sector<\/li>\n<li>Totalling \u00a357m, other industrial projects accounted for the remaining two per cent, a 29 per cent decrease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Regional<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mixed regional performance in project starts, with half of the regions experiencing a decline<\/li>\n<li>Most regions faced a decline in detailed planning approvals<\/li>\n<li>The South West, Yorkshire &amp; the Humber and the North East had a strong performance in both project starts and approvals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The South East led project starts in the industrial sector, having tripled on a year ago, totalling \u00a3699m. This growth was boosted by the \u00a3280m PLP South Coldecotte development in Milton Keynes. The East Midlands also jumped nearly seven times, totalling \u00a3698m. Activity in the region was driven by the \u00a3269m Symmetry Park Kettering Phase Unit 01 Plot 1 development.<\/p>\n<p>Yorkshire &amp; the Humber dominated detailed planning approvals. Totalling \u00a3671m, the region grew almost nine times on a year ago, boosted by the \u00a3223m Alexandra Dock, Hull Buildings Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial overview 66 per cent increase in project starts year-on-year 45 per cent decrease in main contract awards from last year 15 per cent increase in detailed planning approvals compared to 2024 Despite the gloomy economic outlook, industrial sector project starts rose sharply against both the previous quarter and a year earlier, driven by strong &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[74630,74652,74646],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Industrial overview 66 per cent 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