Why should stakeholders care about the Logistics sector?
Logistics businesses are critical to the national infrastructure; they underpin the supply chains across the country and support economic growth.
Dedicated logistics parks in key locations and conurbations with interconnected transportation networks offer quality warehouse space that support the way we live our lives today. They ensure we get the goods and products we need, at the time we need them.
The Logistics sector has undergone enormous technological change, and is no longer solely powered by manual labour. The sector creates a range of high quality, high skilled and high waged jobs.
Establishing modern logistics parks across the country will play a huge part of the government’s levelling-up agenda, with over 70% of demand for Industrial and Logistics spaces coming from the North of England and the Midlands*.
There is a desire to address regional inequalities, but our planning system remains a barrier and is restricting growth by not allocating sufficient land for logistics parks quickly enough. To fully realise levelling up, it is vital we create a more agile planning system that is more responsive to the sector’s ever-growing needs.
*Levelling Up – The Logic of Logistics
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