Homes will close nine divisions and make about 400 redundancies in the wake of its £2.2bn acquisition of Wilson Bowden. The firm, which completed the acquisition of Wilson Bowden last week to become the UK's largest housebuilder, will wind up its KingsOak Homes brand, which specialises in high value areas. Patrick Law, Barratt's public affairs director, said the KingsOak operations would be merged with that of Barratt and. Five offices are to be closed, at Bristol, Milton Keynes, Southampton, York and Watford. Four regional offices of Wilson Bowden's David Wilson Homes brand will also close. These are the Scotland office in Glasgow, the West Midlands office in Halesowen, the South-east office in Horsham, West Sussex, and the Eastern Counties office in Brentwood, Essex.