Scottish builder to supply English player

ABERDEEN-BASED builder Stewart Milne has landed a deal to supply timber frame for more than 1,500 homes to English housing association L&Q.

A spokeswoman for Stewart Milne declined to disclose the value of the deal but said it was a “multimillion-pound” contract.

Stewart Milne, which has timber-frame manufacturing centres at Aberdeen, Grangemouth and Oxford, said the partnership would support L&Q’S (London & Quadrant’s) plans to build 100,000 homes over the next 10 years. The Aberdeen housebuilder added that it would support L&Q, which has been focused traditionally on London and southeast England. in bids for standalone contracts in the open market.

The Scottish firm declared its timber-systems business had been selected after demonstrating its ability to design, manufacture, supply and erect residential units up to six storeys tall.

Alex Goodfellow, managing director of Stewart Milne Timber Systems, said the partnership “lays down a significant marker for how new homes can be built at pace and to exacting design standards”.

He added: “We believe [L&Q] are setting the standard for how we should approach the housing shortfall across the UK.”

Stewart Milne said the closed-panel timber-frame structures will be used initially in the construction of L&Q’S developments at Birnam Mews at Tiddington in Warwickshire and Saxon Reach, at Milton Keynes, with the first deliveries being made this spring.