Toby Perkins MP visits Huws Gray

Toby Perkins, MP for Chesterfield, visited Huws Gray Building Supplies to see how merchants are preparing to supply the materials & products necessary to help to build 1½ million new homes, and improve resilience against flooding.

Touring the branch, Perkins was welcomed by Mark Walters (area director), David Oldfield (branch manager) and Brett Amphlett (BMF), and was shown the building materials and home improvement products available to Huws Gray customers throughout its 250-branch network in England, Wales & Scotland.

Walters commented: “It is really important to Huws Gray that we recognise and respond to tomorrow’s challenges that our customers face here and throughout the East Midlands. This means striving to operate in the most sustainable way possible and guiding our customers to incorporate energy efficiency and water conservation in their house-building and renovation projects”.

“Surface water flooding, when heavy rainfall overwhelms drainage systems, is a growing threat. We have direct local experience of that here in Chesterfield and Derby when Storm Babet hit two years’ ago. The adoption of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems at property level, such as permeable paving and rain gardens, will help to reduce the risk of surface water flooding”.

The constituency visit, organised by the BMF, coincided with the 35^th anniversary of Huws Gray, having begun trading in 1990.