Bulletins

The shortlist is in for this year’s UK Roofing Awards and the finalists are revealed. Meanwhile, there’s just six weeks left to enter the 2026 SPRA Awards.

Also in the news this week: solar roofing is the stand-out performer in Marshalls 2025 results; the LSTA gets ready to welcome French students; and an innovative UK-first roofing solution keeps works dry at a Bolton hospital.

Elsewhere, the government’s ‘game changing’ grey belt policy boosts major residential planning permissions; geopolitical unrest clouds construction outlook as tender prices rise; and there’s a helpful break down of the new tax rules affecting sole traders.