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Election knocks architects’ confidence to seven-year low

By 2019-11-22T07:00:00

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Index stuck in successive months of negative territory for first time since 2012

Architects’ pessimism worsened last month after the latest Future Trends survey remained in negative territory for the second month running.

It is the first time the workload index has been stuck in the red for two successive months since 2012. The score in October this year fell six points to -10.

Confidence in Wales and the west of England collapsed from 0 to -25 with firms in London and the south again also posting negative scores.

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