This will allow more users of the TradeKart app to order materials that can be delivered to the site within as little as an hour.

The agreement with Uber Direct will enable TradeKart to accelerate its growth across the UK and to extend its current rapid delivery promise to plumbers, electricians, builders, and decorators, saving them the valuable time and hassle of leaving site to collect materials.

TradeKart currently partners with over 100 trade merchant outlets across London, where current average delivery time is just 52 minutes.

The company’s partnership with Uber Direct will now enable TradeKart to expand its service, initially across London, Manchester, Liverpool and the North West region.

National and independent merchants already using the TradeKart service include City Plumbing, Huws Gray, Dulux Decorator Centres, MP Morans, Lawsons, PaintWell and London Decorators Merchants.

Uber Direct is powered by the same technology and courier network as the Uber Eats online marketplace. The technology provides customers with real-time tracking and 24/7 customer support for orders should they need it.

Alistair McAuley, founder and CEO at TradeKart, commented: “Following a successful 18 months in London, we’re now expanding across the UK and this exciting new partnership with Uber gives us the capacity to provide tradespeople with the materials they need, when they need them. Time is our scarcest commodity and is far too valuable to be wasted sat in traffic collecting materials.”