Long Sutton development
All exterior works across a 69-unit Lincolnshire estate, including six attic roofs completed in a single day, plus years of domestic work across the same town.
New build housing · Full internal package
A 300-home development: the full internal carpentry package, plot by plot
Internal carpentry across one of the largest residential developments AJB Group has worked on, delivered plot by plot alongside garage roof installations. Fourteen employed carpenters, working to the site programme.
The brief
Three hundred plots, all at different stages
Volume housing is not hard carpentry. It is hard logistics. Any competent carpenter can hang a door, fit a staircase or run a set of stud partitions on one plot. Doing it across three hundred plots that are all at different stages, in the week the programme says, without ever being the trade that everybody else is waiting on, is a completely different job.
That is the contract AJB Group holds on this development: the full internal carpentry package across a 300-home site, plus garage roof installations, running as more plots move through the build programme. Completed homes are standing alongside plots still in build, which is exactly what a healthy volume site looks like and exactly what makes it difficult to resource.
The client has not been named publicly, so the site and the developer are not named here. The scale and the scope are what matter for anybody pricing similar work.
What we did
The full internal package
The internal package covers everything inside the shell that is timber or hangs off it. First fix is the structural and hidden work: floors, stud partitions, door linings, noggins, and all the timber the plumber, the electrician and the plasterer need to fix to. Get first fix wrong and the fault shows up three trades later, usually as a door that will not close or a wall that will not take a fixing.
Second fix is the visible work: doors and ironmongery, skirting and architrave, staircases, fitted joinery and kitchens. On a new build plot this is the part the buyer inspects on handover day with their nose about a foot from the mitre, so the standard is set by somebody who has never read a specification in their life.
Taking both halves as one package removes the argument that costs developers the most time on site: whether the second fix carpenter or the first fix carpenter is responsible for the thing that does not line up. With one contractor there is nobody to blame and nothing to arbitrate.
Garage roofs alongside
Running in parallel with the internal work are the garage roof installations. Garages are the classic loose end on a housing development. They are not part of the house, they rarely sit on the same plot programme, and they have a habit of being left until the point at which they are holding up a completion. Keeping them inside the same carpentry package means they get built as plots move through rather than being chased at the end.
Working to somebody else's programme
On a development this size the carpentry contractor does not set the sequence, the site management team does. The measure of the trade is whether plots come available for the following trades when the programme says they will. AJB Group's carpentry teams are making progress across the site as a whole rather than working through it in a single line, which is only possible with employed carpenters who can be moved between plots rather than a gang assembled per job.
That capacity is recent and deliberate. The company went from seven full-time carpenters to fourteen, plus a vetted supply chain, specifically so that contracts of this scale could be resourced without the programme becoming a queue. It is also why full carpentry packages rather than labour-only supply are now most of the workload.
Quality, safety and programme
The three things a developer actually buys on a volume site are quality, safety and programme delivery, in that combination. Any one of them on its own is easy. AJB Group is CHAS accredited and SMSTS certified, with a retained health and safety consultant, which is what gets a carpentry contractor through the gate on a site of this size in the first place.
At a glance
- Sector
- New build residential development
- Size
- 300 homes
- Scope
- Full internal carpentry package delivered plot by plot, plus garage roof installations
- Team
- AJB Group carpentry teams working across the site alongside the client's site management team
- Dates
- On site and progressing as of July 2026
- Status
- Live, completed homes standing alongside plots still in build
Services proven here
- Package
- Carpentry packages
- First fix
- First fix carpentry
- Second fix
- Second fix carpentry
- Roofs
- Roofing carpentry
On site
Progress across the development
The result
Progress across the site, not through it
As of July 2026 the development continues to take shape with the carpentry teams making progress across the site, the full internal package running plot by plot and garage roofs going on as more plots reach that stage. Completed homes now stand alongside plots still in build, which is the visible proof that the programme is moving rather than stacking up.
On a project of this scale nothing about the outcome is down to one trade. It comes from the carpenters, the site management team and the client all holding the same line on quality, safety and programme delivery, and AJB Group is glad to be doing its part of it.
If you are running a development and the carpentry package is the thing holding your plot completions back, that is a conversation worth having. Send the plot types and the programme and we will tell you honestly what we can resource.
Common questions
About this project
What does a full internal carpentry package include on a new build plot?
Everything inside the shell that is made of timber or hung on it. First fix covers floors, stud partitions, door linings, noggins and the timber the following trades need to fix to. Second fix covers doors and ironmongery, skirting and architrave, staircases, fitted joinery and kitchens. On this development we are delivering the full internal package plot by plot, alongside garage roof installations.
Can you resource a 300-home development?
Yes. This is one of the largest residential developments we have worked on and the carpentry teams are making progress across the whole site rather than one plot at a time. We run 14 full-time employed carpenters plus a vetted supply chain, which is what allows several plots to be in progress at once instead of in sequence.
Do you install garage roofs as well as house roofs?
Yes. Garage roof installations are running alongside the internal package on this development as more plots move through the build programme. Garages tend to be left to the end and then become a snag on handover, so keeping them inside the same carpentry package stops them holding up plot completions.
Where is this development and who is the client?
The client has not been named publicly, so we do not name the site or the developer here. What we can say is the scale, 300 homes, and the scope, the full internal carpentry package plus garage roofs, delivered plot by plot with completed homes standing alongside plots still in build.
Related project
More volume housing
Need a carpentry package resourced across a whole site?
Send the plot types and the programme and we will price the internal package, the roofs, or both.