PERSI M MON HOM ES SPOTLIGHT ON DEAN FINCH AND PERSIMMON HOMES
Unleashing POTENTIAL PERSIMMON HOMES IS TACKLING THE UK’S HOUSING SHORTFALL WHILE ALSO DRIVING SOCIAL MOBILITY BY CREATING WIDER ACCESS INTO THE HOUSEBUILDING SECTOR.
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he UK needs about 300,000 more new homes per year to keep pace with the growth in population and to make up for years of under-supply. There is need for both new housing and the repair, maintenance, and modernisation of existing homes to address our housing shortage in a sustainable manner. This need for increased house building is happening at time when there is a skills shortage and skills gap in the UK construction industry. The construction industry urgently needs skills and expertise in all areas of housebuilding—at technical, supervisory and managerial levels. It also needs skills in all aspects of the life-cycle of housing construction. The skills gap for housebuilding is, however, greatest in the south east of England. In turn, the sector as a whole must recognise where this new talent and skills needs to come from. It means tapping into new talent pools, and making the industry even more open. It must attract and encourage more young people into the industry, but also increase the diversity of the young people it already brings into the industry. Additionally, it must also seek to retain the skilled workforce that the industry develop - taking development and training
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