The UK Delivery Report 2026

Furniture in Fashion concludes that furniture delivery in Britain is an architectural problem before it is a logistics one. The item that fails to reach a room is almost never defeated by the van or the road: it is defeated by the narrowest fixed opening on the route, which in older housing is usually the front door, the hall turn or a stair winder. Our 2026 report explains how to measure a route properly, why the clear opening of a standard UK door leaf is narrower than the leaf itself, and why Approved Document K stair geometry causes long rigid items such as headboards to fail at half landings. It sets out access requirements by item type, from three seater sofas to tall storage, and explains why flat pack and modular construction are structural answers to the age profile of British housing rather than simply a cost decision....