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Overview
Britain is building several once-in-a-generation projects at the same time, and every one of them needs more workers than the local labour market can supply. The question of where those workers sleep is usually answered piecemeal, in planning documents, council reports and local news stories. This tracker pulls those pieces into one place. For each project it records the latest published workforce figure, the share of that workforce expected to live away from home, the purpose-built beds that exist or are planned, and the towns where the remaining demand lands on ordinary rented homes, holiday lets and rooms.
Every figure below comes from a named public source, with the date it was published. Nothing is estimated or modelled. Where a project has not published a number, the cell says so rather than guessing. The page is refreshed monthly; the update log at the end records what changed.
How to read this tracker
Three terms recur and are worth defining once.
Peak workforce is the highest number of people a project expects on site at any one time, not the total number of jobs over its life, which is always larger because people join and leave.