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If these boards are already planed-all-around then, depending on the type of wood, it might be worth to find a cabinet maker with a bandsaw capable of accepting the 300+ mm height. ≈8 mm could be saved; useeful for a lot like bottoms for boxes and drawers, and veneering (which hopefully will be tought soon). A quick search on Google resulted in a lot of hits for both urban (London, Boston, and Berllin), as well as more rural areas (Agde in France and Väröbacka in Sweden).
Perhaps an alternative would be to buy cut but not planed stuff, which is less expensive. When flatsawn, removing 10 mm may very well be required before the board is flat, square, and with parallel opposing aspects. A semi-portable thicknesser reduces the pain as only one side has to be flattened. It’s noisy and spits out chips, but can be had at half the price of a bandsaw of required size.
/soj