Countryside puts offsite factory up for sale

The dwelling builder confirmed it was closing the plant final month as element of an ongoing rethink of its offsite tactic.

Previously this calendar year Countryside verified a critique of its offsite operations which experienced remaining the agency with excessive ability and forecast functioning losses of £10m.

The Bardon factory only opened past Autumn building modular panels and Countryside was one of the industry’s earliest adopters of MMC with an first target of delivering 6,000 residences a year by 2025 applying offsite methods.

The Bardon website is now remaining marketed for sale by chartered surveyor Walker Singleton.

The product sales brochure states: “The complete plant is a point out of the art panel production line, mounted in 2020/2021, enabling the manufacture of closed panel timber frames, embracing modern strategies of design.

“Walker Singleton have been instructed to invite curiosity in the whole Homag/ Weinmann shut panel timber body panel line, alongside with the Dodd Engineering floor cassette line.

Countryside is preparing the complete enterprise for a sale and it presently has two other offsite factories.

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