Vistry has announced it will reopen the Countryside timber frame manufacturing plant it acquired as part of their merger last November, rebranding the factory as Vistry Works East Midlands. 

Countryside spent £20m setting up the Bardon, Leicestershire plant autumn 2021.

By early 2022 the factory that was expected to produce up to 3,500 homes a year was identified as a major source of loss for the group.

In April 2022, Countryside said it expected the manufacturing business to make losses of around £10m, announced it was shutting the plant and then put the factory up for sale in August 2022.