Britain’s economic divide between London and the rest of the country has been laid bare by data showing more cranes have been erected in the capital in the past three years than everywhere else put together.
Cranes on the skyline have long been perceived as one indicator of recovery, and the huge concentration of large building projects in London emphasises the gap between confidence in the capital and pessimism about prospects beyond the M25.
The data from an official register held by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that, since March 2010, six in 10 of more than 5,400 tower cranes were in London, home to only one in eight people living in Britain.
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