Several members of the fitting team will be heading up to Sheffield next week to begin working at what was formerly the largest council estate in Europe; Park Hill. Built in 1961, the 1,000-flat Park Hill estate housed up to 3,000 people and incorporated shops, a doctor’s surgery, dentist, clinic, nursery, school, four pubs and a police station. Initially a strong community spirit was established, but as time progressed the

The month of June is off to a typically busy start for JCW as we supply and fit one of our many acoustic flooring solutions at a new housing development in Golborne, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. Situated on Grimshaw Street, the development will incorporate 10 two-bedroom affordable apartments and is due for completion in the autumn. Appointed by Whittle Construction who are working on behalf of

It’s been a busy springtime for JCW Acoustic Flooring with our services in strong demand which hopefully bodes well for the impending summer period. The month of March saw the team head to the Wirral after we were appointed to supply one of our acoustic flooring systems to a brand new Medical Centre in the area. Working on behalf of Read Construction, who specialise in commercial and industrial projects across

Last month we ventured south to Barnet to fit our JCW 80T acoustic flooring system at three separate schools in the popular London Borough. Working on behalf of Flight Timber Products, the timber frame self build specialists, who in turn were appointed by international consultancy and construction company Mace, each project took approximately a week to complete. The three schools in the area were Brunswick Park Primary and Nursery School,

Last month, Chancellor George Osborne unveiled ‘Right to Build’ which will give those people whom aspire to build their own property greater powers in terms of obtaining plots of land from their local authority, bolstered by a £150m loan scheme. It is hoped that it will encourage wannabe homeowners to follow the lead of countries like Germany and the Netherlands where there are thousands of self-build properties built every year