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Södra Wood Ltd, formerly Crown Timber, is relocating its UK and Irish operations to a new flagship HQ in the Office Park in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. From June 12^th 2017, the move will see more than 40 staff working in an integrated environment dealing with the £120 million sales the UK and Ireland generates.

Four powerful megatrends will shape how public and private spaces will be designed, built and used over the next ten years, according to a report from Marshalls, the UK supplier of hard landscaping materials.

The report, ...

A trading sign for the former Knebworth builders merchant Chas Lowe & Sons is to be erected at Gibbs & Dandy in Stevenage, in a tribute to Lowe’s history in the community.

Sussex-based timber merchants Covers welcomed a party of students to its Quarry Lane, Chichester site to give them an insight into the workings of a modern sawmill.

Less than a year since fire door safety campaigners turned a spotlight on high rise tower blocks, the country wakes to news of the devastating inferno at Grenfell Tower, West London.

Chandlers Building Supplies celebrated the completion of Chailey Heritage Foundation’s Patchwork Farm project by donating its final fundraising efforts to the Foundation. The money donated is part of the merchant’s ongoing support of Chailey ...

Former foreign office minister Alok Sharma has been appointed as the government’s new housing and planning minister, replacing Gavin Barwell.

Balbinder Panesar director of B S & N K Panesar Ltd has been disqualified by the region’s industry regulator and his firm lost its licence to operate HGV vehicles on 29 May 2017.

In the wake of one of the most unpredictable election results in recent years, the Builders Merchants Federation wants to see the new government focus on two major issues - building more homes and developing proper industrial policy – to promote economic growth across the UK.

General Building Plastics is celebrating its national triumph as Midlands Family Business of the Year Champions 2017.