The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, forward of next month’s Autumn Funds to highlight the significance of the sphere to the national economic system and current the compelling case for authorities to enhance warehousing & logistics businesses.
According to its Policy Manifesto 2024, UKWA has bearing in mind three key imperatives:
- Alternate Charges – Addressing the ‘unfair and punitive’ foundation for assessing enterprise charges, which has set apart warehousing at a essential map back.
- Rooftop describe voltaic energy – Requesting incentives/relief on investment in describe voltaic on warehouse infrastructure, whereas reforming regulation, energy distribution and native planning, to capitalise on the functionality for the sphere to double the UK’s current describe voltaic energy capability.
- Abilities & Labour – Urging commerce apprenticeships to be modernised by adding the present UKWA Warehouse Manager CPC to the existing L3 usual, and guaranteeing levy funding may per chance well even be frail all the strategy in which thru all related practising.
UKWA CEO Clare Bottle says, “Warehousing is one in all the fastest increasing sectors in the UK and, mixed with the wider logistics commerce, we contribute £165 billion Rude Price Added (GVA) to the UK economic system. Furthermore, attributable to seismic shifts in user query and exponential enhance in ecommerce, the UK’s warehousing footprint has grown by over 50 per cent in the last 10 years.
Therefore there may per chance be a compelling case for the present authorities to enhance warehousing and logistics businesses by fostering a regulatory and fiscal framework that acknowledges our sector as a facilitator of commerce and economic enhance.
While we welcome the authorities’s early dedication to reform the Nationwide Planning Policy Framework, there may per chance be more to be completed to free up our sector’s probably and, whereas recognising the want to ‘crawl the £22bn dim hole’ in the authorities’s accounts, we mediate we indulge in now a solid case for investment and increase in these three key areas.”
The current authorities’s first Funds is scheduled for Wednesday 30 October 2024.
