DEFRA seems to have bottled out of introducing Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) compulsory legislation before the General Election – see comments from Hydro International. Here’s a link to an interesting ABC&D magazine article explaining why stormwater management is so important. However, with the NHBC reporting a 4% jump in new UK home registrations in April,[…]

Twitter link to a great photo of a gang of builders tackling Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs during a kick-about on the roof of the new Hotel Football being built next to Old Trafford. Other industry news includes the latest Deloitte survey showing that the cranes are well and truly back in London with 64[…]

  Buildingtalk and The Build Show are backing the campaign to get VAT reduced on housing renovations and repair work – read the top 5 reasons why it makes sense. To keep house prices down the Bank of England say we have to build more houses . So it’s an open door to boom time[…]

Insulating 7m solid wall homes + top 10 UK cities for house building Wetherby Building Systems Following our report last week on the new Green Deal Home Improvement Fund, Wetherby Building Systems reminded us that besides helping kick-start the moribund Green Deal, 7m solid wall properties in the UK could benefit from this grant to[…]