Welsh Slate helps celebrate winning World Heritage status
The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales wins UNESCO World Heritage Site status. The building materials manufacturer at the heart of The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales, which has become the UK’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site, has applauded...
Welsh Slate launches visualiser tool for flooring and paving
Online product selector for flooring and paving launched by Welsh Slate. An online product selector that helps users visualise natural slate in flooring and paving applications has been launched by the UK’s leading manufacturer Welsh Slate. The user-friendly...
Welsh Slate courts the competition in historical town
Cwt Y Bugail is the material of choice for Lyons Roofing’s client. When IT consultant Jonah Beck was looking to reroof his converted oast house, there was really only one option for the material – Welsh Slate. The...
Welsh Slate says “Cheers” to Atlantic rowing race
An architect who is an ardent Welsh Slate specifier has won the company’s support for a 3,000-mile ocean rowing race across the Atlantic later this year. Lauren Hunt, 33, who is based in London, will be taking part...
Welsh Slate heads up Sarah Beeny’s new home
Roofing slates by Welsh Slate star in presenter’s new TV programme. Roofing slates by Welsh Slate were the material of choice for TV property expert Sarah Beeny’s own home-in-the-making which is the star of the Channel 4 series...
Welsh Slate walling helps new hotel win an international award
The Pig Hotel in Cornwall features rustic walling from Welsh Slate. A £13 million conversion of a listed country house into a boutique restaurant with rooms during the Covid pandemic has been rewarded with a Top 100 hotels...
Welsh Slate scores a home goal for local football club
An amateur football club in North Wales has avoided “relegation”, thanks in part to Welsh Slate and its parent company the Breedon group. Blaenau Ffestiniog Amateur FC had just won promotion from Tier 4 to Tier 3 when...
“Rare” reroof using Welsh Slate wins contractor a national award
Greenough & Sons win in the 2021 Pitched Roofing Awards. The renovation of a 17th Century listed café in the Snowdonia National Park, which incorporated some “rare” roofing methods using Welsh Slate, has won the contractors a national...
Welsh Slate copings offer enduring beauty ideal for a marine environment
This project at Beach Road in Felinheli, Wales, is essentially flood protection works, but while it was being carried out it was decided it offered an opportunity to improve the visual aspect of the road as well. The...
Welsh Slate takes its RIBA-approved CPD online
“Welsh Slate as a building material” is now available remotely. A RIBA-approved CPD on the benefits of natural slate for roofing, cladding, walling, flooring, paving and aggregates is now also available online with Welsh Slate, part of the...
Welsh Slate reroof requires one of the largest freestanding scaffolds
Clarke Roofing Southern completes a mammoth reroof at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation. Work has drawn to a close on the two-year refurbishment of the roof of a historic arts college that required 26,000 new Welsh...