Building homes is the only solution to housing crisis.

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has indicated that we need to be building more than 200,000 new homes each year to resolve the current UK housing shortage, in an interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

He outlined the Government's three pronged approach to stimulate house building, including extending right to buy, releasing Government land for house building and reforming the planning system, stating "Over all you have to get all things working in tandem, there is not one single thing you can do to solve a housing crisis that has been building up over years and years." He went on to say that the Government would be "putting out a housing strategy next month and we're going to talk a lot more about those things in that as well."

Award winning cast stone on Scarborough Spa restoration

UKCSA member Haddonstone has won a prestigious Green Apple Gold Award for their supply of an intricately detailed cast stone parapet to replace damaged stonework around the ballroom of this Victorian building. Read more

Ecobuild Exhibition

See the UK Cast Stone Association (UKCSA) on Stand S159 at the Ecobuild Exhibition at Excel, London from Tuesday 20th to Thursday 22nd March 2012.

UK Cast Stone Association General Meeting

ABI Barbour and Christeyns are confirmed for presentations in the afternoon session of the UKCSA General Meeting, which will be held on Monday 7th November 2011 at the National Motorcycle Museum, just off M42 Junction 6, between Coventry and the NEC directions available here.  All UKCSA Members are welcome to attend.

Cast stone on the Seafront

A prestigious development of 9 linked apartment blocks by the sea at Boscombe made extensive use of cast stone architectural details and ashlar masonry from UKCSA member Forticrete. Read more.

Striking elevations in cast stone ashlar masonry

The main building in a major redevelopment of Jordanhill School in Glasgow is clad in bespoke cast stone ashlar masonry from UKCSA member Plean Precast. Read more.

UK Cast Stone Association General Meeting

The next General Meeting of the UK Cast Stone Association will be held on Monday 7th November 2011 at the National Motorcycle Museum, just off M42 Junction 6, between Coventry and the NEC directions available here.  All UKCSA Members are welcome to attend.