However the Campaign Against the Levels Motorway (Calm) group said the Gwent Levels, which the road would have been built through, had been saved from the "concrete pourers".

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While construction-related businesses such as land developers, commercial builders, and foundation pourers are still seeing declining sales and are unlikely to be populating the job boards yet, we expect this to change by next year.

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