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Britain faces a shortage of tens of thousands of painters and decorators putting in doubt government efforts to build a million new homes in the next five years, it was claimed yesterday.
There are up to 33,000 too few craftsmen in London & the South East alone, a report said.

It said this could threaten Chancellor George Osborne’s pledge to address Britain’s chronic housing shortage by building one million homes between now and 2020.

The Chancellor announced an overhaul of planning laws earlier this month in a bid to speed up housebuilding projects.




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