Cookie Settings
This site uses cookies to store information on your computer, to improve your experience. One of the cookies this site uses is essential for parts of the site to operate and has already been set. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but parts of the site will not work. To find out more about the cookies this site uses and how to delete them, please see the privacy notice.

[Skip to content]

Search our Site
Federation of Master Builders logo
.

April 2009

  • Recession Continues To Hit Builders Hard, warns FMB
    The recession continues to hit small builders hard with 73 percent of FMB builders reporting a decline in workloads in the industrial sector, and 66 percent reporting similarly for the commercial sector during the first three months of 2009,...
  • FMB dismisses the Chancellor's plans to cut the increase in business rates
    The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has today dismissed as inadequate the Chancellors plans to spread the 5% increase in business rates over three years.
  • Conservative Housing Plans - A Charter for NIMBYs, warns FMB
    Conservative Party plans to allow communities to deliver the new housing that they want and need is good in principle but offers no guarantee that they will actually deliver the millions of homes that are needed to house the five million people on...
  • BATJIC Acts to Save Jobs
    In a statement issued today, the Building and Allied Trades Joint Industrial Council (BATJIC) has announced that the 2009/10 round of negotiations has concluded, and that that there will be no increase to the pay, allowances, and conditions...
  • A Budget For Homes, demands FMB
    A comprehensive package to build more houses and retrofit existing homes needs to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer's top priority when he outlines his Budget proposals on 22 April, says the Federation of Master Builders
  • A Missed Opportunity to Address the Housing Crisis, says the FMB
    Today's Budget was a timid response to build the homes that are desperately needed and to make our existing homes greener and more energy efficient, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).