Working as a special adviser to the government in 2009, part of Nigel Hugill’s job entailed looking at what he calls “dusty files” full of data on regional population changes. That led him to notice something that helped him build a £750M business, one he hopes will profit from political changes in the air in 2024. 
Back when population growth in London was drawing all the headlines, little fanfare was being given to towns about 50 to 100 miles from the UK capital that were seeing steady population growth. Hugill saw that places in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire would see population growth of about 1% a year over the coming… Read the full story here. | 
