The North-South divide

摘要

"I'm now hearing that we are coming out of recession," says Chris Maffei, head of MAF Design and Build. "We can't see that here." Maffei believes things will get worse in Manchester before they get better. "There's an absolute glut of commercial buildings," he says. "Every street corner you turn, you will find that 10 out of 20 warehouses on industrial estates are empty. Within 100 miles I couldn't name anybody who is building houses."