CLT ruling sends Swan back to drawing board on high-rise

By Hamish Champ2019-01-14T13:02:00

House builder seeks alternatives after government effectively rules out use of material on buildings 18m high or taller

Swan, the Essex-based house builder and housing association, is to scrap plans to build residential blocks taller than 18 metres using cross laminated timber after the government effectively ruled out the use of the material in high-rise developments.

Last November the government announced details of a ban on the use of combustible materials in buildings taller than 18 metres.

Swan’s Nu Living arm opened a £3m modular factory in Basildon in January 2017 and began delivering residential units built from CLT to a £130m regeneration scheme in Beechwood in Essex at the end of that year.

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