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Hundreds of jobs on way
Saturday 18th February 2012, 11:31AM GMT.
More than 600 jobs will be created in Shropshire through two new housing developments, it was revealed today.
Housebuilder David Wilson Mercia is planning to begin work at two sites in Telford and Shrewsbury. Bosses say the move will create hundreds of jobs for tradespeople and sub-contractors across the county.
A total of 290 jobs will be created in Telford and 358 in Shrewsbury.
Alastair Parsons, sales manager at David Wilson Mercia, said the jobs would be created in helping to build and sell the homes.
He said the company mainly employs local sub-contractors and tradesmen.
“The Prime Minister has said again and again that one of the best ways to boost economic growth and get people working is through building more homes,” said Mr Parsons.
“The plans we are announcing today show exactly how that theory works in practice.
“We expect to launch three new sites this year. These will provide new homes for local people at a time when there is a chronic shortage of housing.
“In addition to the local construction jobs created, the people who move into the new housing will also spend their wages locally.
“This translates into a significant boost for local retailers at a time when concerns remain about the national financial picture. It’s exactly what this area needs.”
The construction of 179 homes has just started at Riverside Meadows in Shrewsbury.
The development will offer a selection of one and two bedroom apartments and three bedroom townhouses.
Later in the year work will begin at Webbs Meadow, to build 145 three and four bedroom detached and semi detached homes in Lawley. A third development is being built outside the county.
The firm already has a development at Falcons Rest in Telford’s Doseley Park.
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Local Jobs ??? Since when has Poland been local to Shropshire ????
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Now we wait for the doom and gloom lot to moan about this good news .
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HUNDREDS OF JOBS ON WAY says the banner. Good news of course. Not really sustainable good news though. HUNDREDS OF SHORT TERM JOBS ON WAY would have been a more accurate message.
The majority of building related tradesmen are ‘transient’ so to speak. They travel the region going from site to site, job to job.
I’d guess that most of the tradesman who are too work on these sites have jobs have work both pre & post this work = no new jobs really, just some continuation work for those already with jobs.
The developers say “We expect to launch three new sites this year. These will provide new homes for local people at a time when there is a chronic shortage of housing”.
Q. Is there a chronic shortage of private homes in Shrewsbury & Telford?
The developers say ‘“In addition to the local construction jobs created, the people who move into the new housing will also spend their wages locally”.
Q. Won’t they’ll be local people anyway and therefore by default already doing so?
The developers also say” This translates into a significant boost for local retailers at a time when concerns remain about the national financial picture. It’s exactly what this area needs.”
Q. Is this exactly what this area needs?
I simply see developers from other parts of the country telling Salopians what is best for them , being, the Shropshire countryside needs developing……… for our own good.
Q. Is that good news.
(I’m not from Shropshire but I live here and I love it.)
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The overdevelopment will destroy our county. The only ones to benefit are the greedy developers and treacherous politicians who aid them.shame on them all.
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These are only going to be temporary jobs: how long does it take build houses? And as mentioned above a lot of the work will be done by ‘new EU’ builders and the money will leave the country.
Also, the BBC are showing Shropsire as High Risk for water shortages – do we really need MORE development?
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“These will provide new homes for local people at a time when there is a chronic shortage of housing”
Nice that they are doing all this building as a charitable act to help with the housing shortage – NOT
So they are for ‘local people’ then eh ? How are they going to enforce that ?
More likely they’ll atract the usual incomers who will then commute back to their jobs in the West Midlands, spending very little locally but putting more pressure on roads, services etc – but lining the pockets of developers who will then go on to despoil another patch of our (fast-disappearing under concrete) county
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MOAN MOAN MOAN MOAN MOAN MOAN MOAN MOAN MOAN.
You guys must be so stressed. Do you sit and wait for a ‘positive’ headline itching to bash the ‘negatives’ into your keyboards ?
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